Almost two years from concept to prototype, along the way we seem to have resurrected a few other blends like the John Cotton's and even the venerable Bengal Slices. I hope after all the meetings, trade mark work and endless lunches you lot will actually purchase the finished product. With the cumulative effort and expense around here at Standard Tobacco of Pennsylvania Ltd we could has sent a tin of tobacco to the moon! With all that being said it is very gratifying to see our ideas take shape in the form of a square plug tobacco and see the crowds reaction and rapture.