Poche Perique Tobacco Closed?

[Ebarber]

I'm sorry if this has been covered before but I've seen this mentioned on some FB pages I'm a member of but no one seems to know what's going on.

Does anyone know?
I thought this was the one that Mark Ryan bought.
I'm a little concerned because I LOVE perique.

 

[sablebrush52]

Mark has not shut down his Perique operations.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You can’t just drive to la Poche and knock on the door. It’s merely a barn in the middle of a neighborhood. He only has workers for a few days out of the year.
It’s a very small operation. I’ve mentioned this before, but I could literally store The world’s perique supply coming out of there at any one time in my garage.

I visited there for a tour and lecture, but it was tied to the New Orleans Pipe Show. We all paid to spend the day with Mark and Russ. And, we got to blend our own tobaccos. It was a lot of fun. But, no one is there day in and day out. It’s very very small scale stuff.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

If someone did drive there, they’d see tree buildings. The original barn, and two small butler style buildings. And, across the street is the river, with perique growing in the water flood plane. It was neat to see it growing in about a foot of water. But, you’d have to be there at the roght time. Right now it would just be water.

Not much to see on the outside. And, only a small percentage of the perique is even grown there. Mark said that he buys the rest from all over, including Canada.

 

[chilllucky]

What's the name of the rule of journalism - any headline that ends in a question can be answered "no"?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Tree buildings, ha ha! My fat fingers... I meant "three buildings." Tree buildings would make it more exciting though, ha ha. I think that people expect pipe tobacco to be a big business with huge buildings, large equipment, and lotsa UmpaLoompas working.

But, the reality is that it is the smallest of all of the tobacco production businesses.

 

[chilllucky]

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

 

[kcghost]

Anything the press writes is just foolishness nowadays. Back in the old days they'd get off their keisters and check something before they wrote it.

 

[greeneyes]

There are many businesses that are "closed" in the sense that they are no longer open for public visitation during COVID-19.

I recently had a similar scare with a local business. It was open---just not for walk-ins.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

There are many businesses that are "closed" in the sense that they are no longer open for public visitation during COVID-19.

I recently had a similar scare with a local business. It was open---just not for walk-ins.

I'll guarantee you that Mark does not ever have anyone there waiting to greet people. It is in the middle of a neighborhood. I mean this is a teeny tiny operation. He may have someone who drops by and tightens the barrels weekly, but there would be no where for someone "to be." Besides, you could drive up and down that road and probably not ever see it, and I'm sure he has a neighbor keeping watch on the place. This ain't no expensive neighborhood either. I wouldn't recommend doodling about down there.

 

[anotherbob]

Tree buildings, ha ha! My fat fingers... I meant "three buildings." Tree buildings would make it more exciting though, ha ha. I think that people expect pipe tobacco to be a big business with huge buildings, large equipment, and lotsa UmpaLoompas working.

But, the reality is that it is the smallest of all of the tobacco production businesses.

nasal snuff is smaller. Some of the most successful operations have about four employees last count and two of those are family members.

 

[sablebrush52]

Let's just say that the story has got it confused.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I'm going to lay big bucks that Mark has no idea that this listing is out there. Look at this, it asks if you own the business because no one has claimed it, which means that some algorithm just created this listing from people posting pictures. Hell, they may even be my pictures.


But, my bet is that Mark wouldn't even want this out there, telling people where it is. And, going there would be a one way ticket to getting your ass blown off.

It keeps building one of these for my art jewelry business, pisses me off, and I am not interested in having people come to my house at all. It is merely where I make stuff. Not, where I sell it.

 

[admin]

I'm going to lay big bucks that Mark has no idea that this listing is out there. Look at this, it asks if you own the business because no one has claimed it, which means that some algorithm just created this listing from people posting pictures. Hell, they may even be my pictures.
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But, my bet is that Mark wouldn't even want this out there, telling people where it is. And, going there would be a one way ticket to getting your ass blown off.

It keeps building one of these for my art jewelry business, pisses me off, and I am not interested in having people come to my house at all. It is merely where I make stuff. Not, where I sell it.

The "Own this business? Claim it now" thing for some stupid reason gets placed on businesses that ARE claimed as well as unclaimed Google My Business listings. Just an FYI.

Also, there's a ton of wrong information on these things right now. I know of more than one local business here that have claimed listings where Google has them closed when they are not.

One restaurant that I help with their online stuff opened for dine-in in May. Google had them marked as not open for dine-in. I logged in many times and changed to open. It went under, "pending review" for almost 6-months - even after I tried to change it over and over again. They finally last week marked them open for dine in. The point: Don't solely rely on the info in the Google Knowledge Box / Google My Business.

 

[mingc]

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

The OP is not a journalist and his post is not a report. He's posing a question that was raised by his google search result. The answer appears to be that it's not "permanently closed" because it's not open to the general public to begin with.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

The "Own this business? Claim it now" thing for some stupid reason gets placed on businesses that ARE claimed as well as unclaimed Google My Business listings. Just an FYI.

I'm still not sure Mark would want a listing like this. It would make no sense for a place not set up for visitors to have it's street address listed. It is also listed as a "tobacco shop" of which it is not. He doesn't sell or even have his D&R blends here. He has an actual store in Smithfield, NC.

 

[admin]

I'm still not sure Mark would want a listing like this. It would make no sense for a place not set up for visitors to have it's street address listed. It is also listed as a "tobacco shop" of which it is not. He doesn't sell or even have his D&R blends here. He has an actual store in Smithfield, NC.

Anybody can make those listings.

 

[canucklehead]

Anybody can make those listings.

Yes, I've seen one made for a pothole before. I think it was listed as a B&B.

 

[jmill208]

I agree with Cosmic on this one. I too have been there and it is pretty much a “nothing to see here” kind of place. You’d drive right by it and never know that it existed. A beautiful location near the river, out in the boonies, but indistinguishable from the adjoining farms and homes.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I agree with Cosmic on this one. I too have been there and it is pretty much a “nothing to see here” kind of place. You’d drive right by it and never know that it existed. A beautiful location near the river, out in the boonies, but indistinguishable from the adjoining farms and homes.

Hey yeh, I remember now. Pappymac was there too. Didn't you have a racecar as your avatar? or am I as confused as usual?