Tobacco substitutes

[hooboy]

I just bet herrings were very hard to light!

hoo

 

[hooboy]

oops. I have read rule # 7 But It did not dawn on me that I in this post that I

have committed a major booboo . egads! I will do my best to never commit so grevious

an act again.

Now I will slither away thinking about what I can do to make up for this rash act!

Everone please try to forgive my blunder and remember that it was unintentional on

my part as I never intentionally set out to do this horrendous act!

hoo

 

[deathmetal]

Apparently parsley has a fairly neutral flavor which when mixed with tobacco can bulk out a dwindling supply of the real thing.

Well, that's interesting. I've got a huge supply and tend to like it in every form I've tried so far. But smoking it? Prepare for the Pa/Per: a Parsley and Perique mixture.

 

[hooboy]

Well I can agree that "alternate" is the word more appropriate! AND also agree the tobak

is NOW a controlled substance ( see I can adjust)

My ol Granpappy grew his own and when as a boy I would slip some out and try

to smoke it. WHEW, it would make one hunt an alternate when able to walk again!

hoo

 

[perdurabo]

Hooboy, Americans are now a controlled substance, go figure.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Kinnikinnick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinikinik

 

[iamn8]

Sable, you'll take away my paisley covered bed spread over my cold dead corpse!

 

[condorlover1]

Seriously if you dry the parsley out it really doesn't taste of much but if you add a small amount of tobacco it can stretch a meager supply a long way. I used to add it to my RYO tobacco when I was at boarding school 35+ years ago and it worked a treat. Its better to let it cure a bit so its not green when its dry but thats about it.

 

[weezell]

Used to be a Cabbage cigarette they sold in the health food stores in the early 70s...(Horrible)...

 

[hooboy]

I have read that the American Indians used to smoke a number of items, ie. different type of dried leaves,

willow bark; Rabbit tobacco etc.

hoo

 

[elbert]

He said--"I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious."

From Emerson's Eulogy of Thoreau. He was rather interested in Native lore, but whether the lily-stems were related to that or no, I cannot guess.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I have read that the American Indians used to smoke a number of items, ie. different type of dried leaves, willow bark; Rabbit tobacco etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinikinik

 

[okiescout]

Chasing, in my past readings about Native Americans cherry bark was frequently alluded to as a key ingredient in Kninknik.

Your article listed Canadian Bunchberry. Is that a tree that grown in the US?

 

[deathmetal]

I used to add it to my RYO tobacco when I was at boarding school 35+ years ago and it worked a treat.

This is a great mental image. I imagine boys sharing a meager supply of tobacco by adulterating it, and enjoying the rarity of the resulting smoke. You can never duplicate that context, which is what makes it so poignant.