Thanksgiving Day Smoking Choices

[Lyon0oq]

So there is maybe a desire to break out the Haunted Book Shop or Cult of the Blood Red Moon for Halloween, and then coming up we have Figgy Pudding, Cringle Flake, We Three Kings, and the list goes on for tobacco aimed at helping with Christmas cheer.

What about Thanksgiving? What are your go to tobaccos for turkey day? Our Canadian brethren can tell us what they chose, while those of us in the USA can say what we have on deck. Interested to hear people's takes on this.

 

[jwesthurl]

I feel like the obvious choice is LJ Peretti’s Thanksgiving Day

 

[judcole]

I smoke whatever I feel like smoking when the day arrives, the way I do whenever I smoke. IMO, a lot of folks overthink this stuff.

 

[jerry]

Peretti’s Thanksgiving Day, for sure! I like it throughout the season.

 

[Peter Turbo]

+1 for Thanksgiving Day been smoking it all month.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Whatever is in my pipe that day.

 

[Kobold]

Probably whatever I’m in the mood for that day. I know last year it was lane 1q for me.

 

[bullet08]

Not enough blends with good, memorable names like : Thursday Massacre, That Thigh Was Mine, The Last Gobble..

 

[vosBghos]

Not enough blends with good, memorable names like : Thursday Massacre, That Thigh Was Mine, The Last Gobble..

As I have high cheekbones and can’t grow facial hair I’ll probably be smoking warhorse , Just Kidding kinda

 

[spugni]

For a special occasion like Thanksgiving I will probably go with McClellands 40th Anniversary.

 

[Lyon0oq]

I feel like the obvious choice is LJ Peretti’s Thanksgiving Day

I was unaware that a company had named a tin after the day, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised ;]

 

[ray47]

Probably a nice cigar after a big meal.

 

[KruegerFlap]

I will definitely smoke some LJ Peretti’s Thanksgiving Day, I finally bought some this year and tried it already and it is one fine blend! I will also smoke a English blend with some Latakia in it for the late evening, which will probably be Pirate Kake.

 

[anotherbob]

well if I have to pick I'd go with a theme and go with something good but simple. Also less important then the size of the chamber and having a good long smoke on a long slow stroll.

 

[americaman]

Old Dark Fired gives me Thanksgiving vibes. Very earthy for that autumn feeling.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Names of blends have such an impact on pipe smokers... or just people in general. A B&M used to take a cherry/vanilla aromatic and slap a label on it calling it Hobbit Weed and guys who didn't even like aromatics smoked it if they were fans of LOTR stuff. Hell, Lane has several dozen blends that is called by different names, but it's all still 1Q, just different looking tins.
You can take any blend and slap a name on it and customers throw bucks at it regardless of what the blend is.

A company could take an English blend and call it Turkey Day Surprise and guys who don't usually like English blends will buy it. Tastes nothing like a turkey. Ha ha.

Cigar companies can take a vanilla aromatic, have someone else put it in a tin, and slap their cigar branding on it, and fans of those cigars will buy it, even if they don't usually like aromatics.

For years, McClellands took whatever Virginias they could muster up that year, slap a label on it calling it Christmas Cheer.

Which is more Christmassy, Virginias, Englishes, aromatics... burleys?

Guys who would swear up and down that they can never be fooled... are easily led off cliffs. Marketing is such a weird thing.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Clan Aromatic in a Falcon with shillelagh swirly stem..

 

[warren]

The usual suspects and at least one cigar.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

I'm smoking a turkey, but not in my pipe

 

[Sidehatch]

Burley in the morning with coffee and smoking the turkey. Likely Deluxe Crumb Cut. Maybe KBV Burley Morning Pipe. Then if the host allows I’ll probably light up Autumn Evening after dinner since nobody ever has ever said that smells like shit and to put it out. Evening smoke is 50/50 as I’m usually hammered from day drinking and may just pass out. Yeah Holidays!!