What are Lakeland blends?

[mso489]

Some have even reported the Lakeland aromatics coming through in the non-aromatic blends, raising the question if the flavoring somehow gets mixed in some of the non-aros. I guess it is possible. If you are careful about not ghosting, I suppose the thing to do is to smoke a trial bowl in a "sacrificial" cob for starters, and if you don't taste any aromatic flavorings, go ahead and use your other regular pipes. I haven't encountered it, but the idea is, once a Lakeland aromatic has been in the bowl of a pipe it will never go away.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

But, uggg, if the English are eating things similar to tonquin beans and geranium oils, blech, no wonder I've never heard of a successful English restaurant in the US.

This is exactly the kind of disingenuous mental association that makes the every "soap" analogy so blatantly slanderous.
Of course no-one douses their food in Geranium extract, it's a scent to enhance the flavor of other things, not a flavor in itself.
Lakeland blends are primarily sweet. Yes, sometimes the scents can be over the top, give a bowl a few hours to air out if it's overpowering, but I have yet to find any Aromatic that holds a notable sweetness through the entire bowl the way Ennerdale does when it has just the right amount of topping left (the first few days after opening a fresh tin).

 

[perdurabo]

G&H Scotch flake is good. Right now I'm smoking Rum Flake. Good shit.