That's the name of my jar of tailings, left-over but not enough to smoke tobacco, tobacco I don't really care for, and so on. I'm sure all of you have a similar jar you add to and eventually smoke. Sometimes, it's pretty good, eh?
So why the "skragg" moniker? Scrag, or scragg (I've seen it spelled both ways) is a nickname dating from the '50s and '60s, for a tall, unattractive woman. Think Olive Oyl from the comic strip and cartoon series "Popeye". I've known many skraggs in my life and generally preferred socializing with them to large melloned bimbos who are almost always full of themselves. Next, please.
What makes my tailing jar different is I go the dollar store and buy containers of dried parsley for exactly $1.00 for a full ounce, and, to stretch the tobacco tailings, add between 25-40% to my jar. It serves three purposes.
1. It stretches the tobacco in the depressive economic smoking environment/conditions of Canada.
2. It has no real discernable taste. Perhaps a touch of herbality, but certainly not unpleasant.
3. It is bone dry, and when you rotate the jar, it soaks up and absorbs the moisture content of the tailings in the tin.
Apparently, dried lavender and lavender flowers also qualify as a stretcher, and have the benefit of a small but present content of nicotine, but it does impart a distinctly floral presence to the smoke. Don't know. But I'm going to find out this fall when I raid my sister's garden when she cuts down her lavender.
So, tell me about your jar of tailings, how you make it, and what it smokes like. Enquiring minds want to know!
So why the "skragg" moniker? Scrag, or scragg (I've seen it spelled both ways) is a nickname dating from the '50s and '60s, for a tall, unattractive woman. Think Olive Oyl from the comic strip and cartoon series "Popeye". I've known many skraggs in my life and generally preferred socializing with them to large melloned bimbos who are almost always full of themselves. Next, please.
What makes my tailing jar different is I go the dollar store and buy containers of dried parsley for exactly $1.00 for a full ounce, and, to stretch the tobacco tailings, add between 25-40% to my jar. It serves three purposes.
1. It stretches the tobacco in the depressive economic smoking environment/conditions of Canada.
2. It has no real discernable taste. Perhaps a touch of herbality, but certainly not unpleasant.
3. It is bone dry, and when you rotate the jar, it soaks up and absorbs the moisture content of the tailings in the tin.
Apparently, dried lavender and lavender flowers also qualify as a stretcher, and have the benefit of a small but present content of nicotine, but it does impart a distinctly floral presence to the smoke. Don't know. But I'm going to find out this fall when I raid my sister's garden when she cuts down her lavender.
So, tell me about your jar of tailings, how you make it, and what it smokes like. Enquiring minds want to know!
