...giant bug-covered fuzzy weeds that grew in mud and dirt that somebody cut down, took to a barn, and dried into papery sheets. Then (sometimes) even saturated with smoke or packed into barrels... and left there for years.
To rot.
MMMMmmmmmmmm...
Tobacco Tastes Like...
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...giant bug-covered fuzzy weeds that grew in mud and dirt that somebody cut down, took to a barn, and dried into papery sheets. Then (sometimes) even saturated with smoke or packed into barrels... and left there for years.
To rot.
MMMMmmmmmmmm...
Growing your own REALLY brings all of this home by the way, seeing the bugs and dirt and moldy stems etc etc...
I wonder how you would react to me wiping my dripping nose with a big old burley leaf?
Not really seeing all this and I am surrounded by the stuff, although the bottom leaves will get dirt on them during a hard rain. Not many insects go after tobacco with nicotine being such an effective insecticide. Now as far as the processing after this stage....
...and after 47 years of burning it in a little wooden bowl inches from my face---that's connected to my mouth with a tube---I still can't get enough....giant bug-covered fuzzy weeds that grew in mud and dirt that somebody cut down, took to a barn, and dried into papery sheets. Then (sometimes) even saturated with smoke or packed into barrels... and left there for years.
To rot.
MMMMmmmmmmmm...
try a bigger tube. Maybe then it will be enough. Just a thought....and after 47 years of burning it in a little wooden bowl inches from my face---that's connected to my mouth with a tube---I still can't get enough.
There’s a whole disconnect in the modern world of how we wish to see things, i.e, the marketing, from the reality of it. And that the reality is somehow not good or sanitized enough.
For example, humans who have never farmed are often a curious lot, expecting their food to grow in some sort clean room, rather than a bustling ecosystem of bacteria, insects, fungus, animals and their effluents.
Similarly, I always appreciate the pics posted by artisans of their freshly polished, pristine pipes, but held with a workshop hand, covered in the grime that accumulates from hard work. It shows that the perfection of the pipe was bought with dirt, grime, and effort in the workshop.
For example, humans who have never farmed are often a curious lot, expecting their food to grow in some sort clean room, rather than a bustling ecosystem of bacteria, insects, fungus, animals and their effluents.
Similarly, I always appreciate the pics posted by artisans of their freshly polished, pristine pipes, but held with a workshop hand, covered in the grime that accumulates from hard work. It shows that the perfection of the pipe was bought with dirt, grime, and effort in the workshop.
