Sailor's Pride

[leonidas]

...does anyone have any experience with Sailor's Pride?

...... i purchased it today at a local tobacco shop. the label doesn't give much information. it just says, 'Made in the EU' and '60 gr.'

..and of course, the can is almost covered by those annoying warning labels and a very graphic photo (which i immediately scratched off when i got home).

i haven't opened the can yet...

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

I did know a proud sailor once.
When he came home on leave he handed out to his friends those lovely Royal Navy issue cigarettes, until the Royal Navy got all health-conscious that is.
There was nothing like them available in any tobacconists.

 

[Bluemonter]

Sounds like you need to do a review and let us know what you think of it.....and come back with your shield or on it.

 

[leonidas]

….I opened the can last evening...…… the tobacco is very dry and I noticed that the bottom rim of the can is rusted. So the can has been in the shop a long time (plus the shop is on the river that leads to the Bay of Cadiz which the salt air probably helped in the rusting process). …..I believe i'll have to re-hydrate it before I decide to try it out...

 

[scout19d3]

@jiminks identified it as Lane 1-Q on tobaccoreviews.com in 2016
That's a source I trust implicitly

 

[weezell]

any experience with Sailor's Pride?

Sailor's Delight is wrong, ...​

 

[JimInks]

@jiminks identified it as Lane 1-Q on tobaccoreviews.com in 2016
That's a source I trust implicitly

Weezell is correct. Sailor's Delight isn't Sailor's Pride. I haven't smoked Sailor's Pride.

 

[kcghost]

Never had any.

 

[leonidas]

ok.....i emptied out the can and there is rust on the bottom (on the inside).
i need advice from the experts please - rehydrate or toss it?

 

[leonidas]

 

[Dudditz]

Not an expert, but if I dumped a can of tobacco in a container and noticed the tin had rust on the bottom, I would believe that gravity now carried any rust on the bottom onto that which I dumped. If you picked it out from the top down and got top the bottom and saw the rust, maybe the first part was ok. That being said, it's rust. Who knows how the stuff was handled. I would toss it...That's jut me.

 

[scout19d3]

any experience with Sailor's Pride?

Sailor's Delight is wrong, ...​

Yup, it sure was. I searched for "sailors pride" but the linked results were for "sailor's delight"

 

[North State]

I have now smoked Sailor's Pride. I got it in Gdansk, Poland in September and it's by a polish manufacturer called Orion Tobacco. The lettering and the small picture of a pipe are exactly the same as here, though. It's a 40 gram pouch.

The first one was called 'English Delight' which was the main reason I got it - I was hoping for at least supermarket-quality english blend that would be at least passable to smoke once. Instead, I got a rather nasty virginia/burley aromatic with cheap, weak vanilla and rum flavours and something almondy in it. There's absolutely nothing 'english' in it, as far as the term is understood in the tobacco world. Not bad enough to throw away, but definitely not something I'd want to buy again.

The other one, that I haven't opened yet, is called 'Kentucky' but based on the first one I have no high hopes that it's used as anything but a groovy name.