My Bottomless Prince Albert Humidor

[Briar Lee]

Maybe twenty years ago, my brand new wife laughed at me on the phone in a thousand dollar suit trying to hand roll a Prince Albert cigarette from a new Prince Albert humidor she bought me, as I talked on the phone.

When I was a kid I saw more than one man who’d lost an arm in a little round hay baler roll perfect Prince Albert or Velvet cigarettes that looked tailor made, but I never could.

She took a photo of me, we still have somewhere smoking what looks like a bad doobie.

In twenty years that same PA can hasn’t run empty. It has PA, black cavendish, Virginia bright leaf, SWR, Velvet, and who knows what all other odds and ends of cheap candy flavored cavendish tobaccos.

Still tastes and smells delicious, too.

Do you have a catch all humidor that has no bottom to it?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Do you have a catch all humidor that has no bottom to it?

No, but yours is pretty cool.

 

[didimauw]

I consider you a lucky guy cause you get candy flavors out of goopy aromatic Cavendish.

I currently have a small 4oz jar I'm filling with whatever didn't fit in the pipe at the time. It's all Burley based blends, so shouldn't be any surprises there.

 

[Paul lec]

Mine is a mason jar labeled Bits and Pieces, not bad once in a while.

 

[canucklehead]

Mine is a mason jar labeled Bits and Pieces, not bad once in a while.

Same, only mine is labeled Jots and Tittles.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

You need to smoke more.

 

[Briar Lee]

You need to smoke more.

How?

My bottomless PA can sits in my office kitchen, beside maybe three or four Lees.

When I’m back in the kitchen, I might have a couple of Lees half smoked in ashtrays out front.

There is absolutely no Latakia in my catch all can of Prince Albert.

But if I want to fire up a Lee in my kitchen I don’t want to disturb my assistants up front, scrounging tobacco, you know?

When it gets low I take some odds and ends and fill it back up, shaking virgorously.

 

[archerdarkpint]

Odds and Sods...one for latakia, the other for aromatic.

 

[canucklehead]

Reminds me of this for some reason:

 

[mso489]

I have an empty Granger can, a full Granger can, an antique empty metal Granger can, and as I was growing up my father smoked nothing but Granger, from a pouch, in his pipe. But there's more. My wife grew up in a tiny town in Northeast Missouri called Granger. And my late wife attended Grainger (different spelling) High School in Kinston, North Carolina. So my Granger humidor is indeed full. I'm no stranger to Granger.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

This reminds me of Trigger talking about his favourite broom - his character was a street sweeper.

??

 

[romaso]

I remember reading a story in the old Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris about a guy who collected his tobacco scraps and bits in a container over many years. His nephew came to visit and they sampled the mix, and it was absolute ambrosia, but of course there was no way it could be recreated after all that time.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Maybe twenty years ago, my brand new wife laughed at me on the phone in a thousand dollar suit trying to hand roll a Prince Albert cigarette from a new Prince Albert humidor she bought me, as I talked on the phone.

When I was a kid I saw more than one man who’d lost an arm in a little round hay baler roll perfect Prince Albert or Velvet cigarettes that looked tailor made, but I never could.

She took a photo of me, we still have somewhere smoking what looks like a bad doobie.

In twenty years that same PA can hasn’t run empty. It has PA, black cavendish, Virginia bright leaf, SWR, Velvet, and who knows what all other odds and ends of cheap candy flavored cavendish tobaccos.

Still tastes and smells delicious, too.

View attachment 163367View attachment 163368View attachment 163369Do you have a catch all humidor that has no bottom to it?

What kind of pipe is that?

 

[coming to_falling too]

What kind of pipe is that?

It's a seven pointed star era Lee Star Grade =P

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

You know I misread this at first.. I thought you said you'd been smoking on a tub of Albert for 20 years.

I have a scraps jar too.