Most Smoked Blends Vs Favorite Blends

[NomadOrb]

I am curious to hear if the blends people smoke the most are also their "favorites". Although, one could argue that if you smoke one blend the most, it could be your favorite.

I'll list 4, because that's all I can reasonably come up with.

1. C&D Briar Fox - this one has taken over top spot for me over the last several months.

2. GLP Embarcadero

3. Mac Baren Navy Flake

4. Brunello Flake

I smoke a whole bunch of other stuff here and there, but these 4 are the main stays.

I consider MB Navy Flake to be a favorite, as well as Brunello Flake. Briar Fox and Embarcadero are my two go-to blends when I just want to smoke something.

How about you?

 

[Scottmi]

Interesting nuance.
My defacto most-smoked (and by definition favorite?) is my morning Bayou Veermaster VaPer blend (60% Bayou Morning, 40% Hamborger Veermaster). I smoke this the most, being most mornings. I do not however wish it other times of the day. It is my default morning blend.

A 'Favorite' but more sparingly smoked is Esoterica Dorchester (another VaPer as it happens). It is more delicious, even! I might smoke more if it was more available, but perhaps too rich to be my morning smoke, or daily. This one, and everything else, even other 'favorites' are sampled occasionally/get rotated.

My morning BV will probably be replaced at some point, too, as I finish what I currently have mixed, and adopt another regular morning puff (probably Peretti 333 or Peretti Thankgiving day next--both very satisfying morning smokes for me).

 

[warren]

Over the mast many years I've developed a handful of "favored" blends I smoke exclusively. Rarely do I purchase an untried blend. Happily, I've found a few pleasant blends I can stick with and keep available.

 

[fireground_piper]

Yes and no. I have my handful of favorites that I enjoy from time to time and bought a lot of but most of my time is spent smoking through everything else just to smoke through it.

At some point the other stuff will be gone and all I’ll have left are my favorites which will then be all I smoke.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Every time I get into my truck, the Bluetooth kicks on, and it plays my music from my phone in alphabetical order. So, every time I turn the key of my truck, it starts playing the same song, every damn time. I have googled it, and there is no way to change this. Needless to say, I periodically delete whatever song it is that plays every damn time I turn the key in my truck, because it automatically causes me anxiety to hear that same song. My favorite songs become my most hated.

So, along these same lines, I never smoke my favorite tobaccos. Ha!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I have some favorite blends I enjoy during the holiday season so those aren't "most smoked" by virtue of the shorter season and rotating among those blends (although I pulled a few out the past couple of weeks), but in general, sure, the blends I like the most I consume the most.

 

[anotherbob]

Every time I get into my truck, the Bluetooth kicks on, and it plays my music from my phone in alphabetical order. So, every time I turn the key of my truck, it starts playing the same song, every damn time. I have googled it, and there is no way to change this. Needless to say, I periodically delete whatever song it is that plays every damn time I turn the key in my truck, because it automatically causes me anxiety to hear that same song. My favorite songs become my most hated.

So, along these same lines, I never smoke my favorite tobaccos. Ha!

me too except the dirth of tech skills. My go to blends are near favs. But my top faves are glp and the hh series. Key largo is my top fav. My most smoked are yorktown, 5 bros, and egr!

 

[warren99]

I have several blends that I normally smoke (mostly English and some Va and VaPer's). My favorites for the most part are no longer made or impossible to find, such as Penzance, Raven's Wing, Bell's Three Nuns, Dunhill Nightcap and 965 (before Murray's closed shop in '03), and the original Bengal Slices. To my disappointment, when blends change, they don't usually change for the better, IMHO.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Every time I get into my truck, the Bluetooth kicks on, and it plays my music from my phone in alphabetical order. So, every time I turn the key of my truck, it starts playing the same song, every damn time. I have googled it, and there is no way to change this. Needless to say, I periodically delete whatever song it is that plays every damn time I turn the key in my truck, because it automatically causes me anxiety to hear that same song. My favorite songs become my most hated.

So, along these same lines, I never smoke my favorite tobaccos. Ha!

Don't you have kids that could help you figure out how to get it to shuffle?

 

[prairiedruid]

Favorite blends like 3 Oaks Syrian and Gatsby Luxury Flake are no longer made so I open a tin of these on special events. I'll probably open my last tin of 3 Oaks this fall for my birthday.

Most smoked are a variety of bulk English and Virginia blends that are in the everyday rotation. Tasty but nothing special.

 

[vosBghos]

Every time I get into my truck, the Bluetooth kicks on, and it plays my music from my phone in alphabetical order. So, every time I turn the key of my truck, it starts playing the same song, every damn time. I have googled it, and there is no way to change this. Needless to say, I periodically delete whatever song it is that plays every damn time I turn the key in my truck, because it automatically causes me anxiety to hear that same song. My favorite songs become my most hated.

So, along these same lines, I never smoke my favorite tobaccos. Ha!

Had the Same problem , getting into my truck I felt like Bill Murray from GroundHog's Day.

 

[vosBghos]

Peterson/Dunhill Flake, it just works. G&H Best Brown #2 and McCrannies Red Ribbon to mix it up. Though my tastes change often those seem pretty constant.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Don't you have kids that could help you figure out how to get it to shuffle?

I’ve checked every option, down to Google and calling the dealership. They do not have a setting. It automatically plays downloaded music as a first option. I can change once it is playing. I do. I change it to a different playlist based on what I want at the time. But, by default it always plays the first alphabetical downloaded song, before I can change it.
I’m considering replacing the stereo.

Had the Same problem , getting into my truck I felt like Bill Murray from GroundHog's Day.

I know, right? It makes me hate whatever song it is. And, when that song comes up in a playlist, even if it is a favorite, my blood pressure shoots up, and I switch the song. This is why a 12 pipe a day guy has to be careful not to just smoke favorite blends, ha ha.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

The tobacco I smoke the most is not a blend but a “blender”: c&d dark burley. It is also my favorite. I smoke other blends mainly to remind me how good it is

 

[NomadOrb]

I definitely agree with the too much of a good thing with favored blends.

I think that's why blends like briar fox, Pegasus, and, generally burley based blends really lend themselves to being smoked without tiring of them. VaPers also hit that mark for me. I go through periods where VaPers take over my most smoked.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I go through several pounds of my favorite blend in a year's time and often smoke it multiple times per day if not exclusively.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I’ve checked every option, down to Google and calling the dealership. They do not have a setting. It automatically plays downloaded music as a first option. I can change once it is playing. I do. I change it to a different playlist based on what I want at the time. But, by default it always plays the first alphabetical downloaded song, before I can change it.
I’m considering replacing the stereo.

Yeah, I don't know what it is with stock Bluetooth stereos. I hate using it on my wife's car, too. Lots of obvious features are missing and the button response is laggy as all hell. On no other platform would this be acceptable.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Yeah, I don't know what it is with stock Bluetooth stereos. I hate using it on my wife's car, too. Lots of obvious features are missing and the button response is laggy as all hell. On no other platform would this be acceptable.

CarPlay via my phone has been terrific in my Jeep. The quality is excellent.

 

[KruegerFlap]

A few of my favs I smoke the most often are C&D Haunted Bookshop, C&D Mad Fiddler, and GLP Embarcadero but I also have tons of other blends I throw into the rotation so I don't get burned out on my favs and I like to try new to me blends often.

 

[LeafErikson]

My most smoked are also my favorites. The one I smoke the most by a country mile is Pegasus.