***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

[dd57chevy]

EGR in a Carey billiard

 

[BenMN]

Pegasus X2 in my '81 DM

 

[BlueRidge]

Old Louisiana Red in a Castello.

 

[JimInks]

One day I'm going to pay you a visit and steal that pipe when you're not looking. I may not be kidding!!

You'd have to get past my atomic powered armadillos and rocket launching flying squirrels first.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the Nats-Reds game while working.

 

[Mortar0341]

Finishing my day with some Bayou Morning. Drinking Pepsi, thinking about how fast this weekend went by. It was a good one though.

 

[telescopes]

Very interesting post.

I checked up on Telescopes tobacco, and apparently there is some copyright hassles going on with it right now, and if it was available to me, I'd try it for the reasons you state. I've been using Smokers' Pride Whiskey for the same, it being as close to neutral anything I have. Any flavour it has is to me, very undertoned, and it burns fairly hot, and is better for breaking in pipes than anything else I have. Once broken in, I then dedicate or bias the pipe to a particular blend or type. I find Lats the most ghosting of all, but as I don't mind them at all, they get smoked in their own pipes.

Any strong opinions I have are long gone except for my personal favourites, which at this time remain the same. Hope I'm on the right track. Any suggestions you or others have would be most welcome.

After 40 years, I imagine it's all in the public domain by now having failed to file a copywriter for the name - damned, what was I thinking back then.

But yes, a tobacco full of black Cavendish is absolutely great for breaking in a pipe and as has worked for me over the years, keeping ghosts at bay when used alternatively between tobaccos that ghosts.

Although I have more than enough pipes to dedicate to a specific blend, you see, I am lazy and in fact, would hate to see a pipe have to wait to be smoked until I decided to light up a certain genre of tobacco. So it has become that while I do smoke a great variety of tobacco blends, every other smoke is generally one of these - Telescopes, Lazybones, EZ1, The Doctor's Own Blend, or Black Maria. I note that Black Maria and The Doctor's Own Blend while containing latakia in them, have it at a reduced level than most English blends.

All of the above tobaccos have a generous amount of rich black Cavendish added into their mix and the flavors don't ghosts. By alternating them with other blends that do ghosts, I find I keep the carbon cake fairly exorcised of nasty spirits that might otherwise force me to either deep clean the pipe or dedicate it to a specific blend. Since I smoke a lot of latakia blends, this works for me.

 

[Peterson314]

S'mmore Peretti Century in my Peretti Peterson.

 

[carp rides again]

Stockton w/king cake in a Peterson xl5s

 

[Eireprof]

Rainy afternoon porch pipe. Elizabethan in a Peterson 264.

 

[Sobrbiker]

All of the above tobaccos have a generous amount of rich black Cavendish added into their mix and the flavors don't ghosts.

EZ1 doesn’t ghost? That’s incredible, because the Frosty Mint in it is still ghosting my mailbox
Perhaps I’ve got the blends mixed up in my mixed up mind…

 

[Brewfan]

Ennerdale Flake in a 1976 Dunhill.

 

[Peterson314]

Ennerdale Flake in a 1976 Dunhill.

Ennerdale your doggo's favorite blend? Mine likes it just fine, but he really goes crazy for Black Arrow because he knows if he smells it, he's going on a walk.

 

[cynyr]

Irish Blessing in a Briarworks.

Currently reading: A Light in the Darkness by David Saylor

 

[JimInks]

Passing the last third of this bowl of Wilke Hearth of Galway in an undated smooth straight medium brown made in France Saillard Lord Clerit lumberman with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Finished editing the article I wrote, and sent it to the layout man who is also my co-editor. Watching the Braves-Dodgers game.

 

[Pipeski]

Loading up a Neal Monier Canadian with 2020 Rustica after a delicious street taco meal.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Directors Cut in a Merchant Service Bing Standard and Ginger Tea on the side.

 

[PrivatePiping]

KBV Fuzzy's Pepper Jelly in a Morgan Bones "Larry".

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Took a little break to enjoy some CRFwP in an Armentrout sandblast, enjoyed with some sheng puer.

 

[telescopes]

EZ1 doesn’t ghost? That’s incredible, because the Frosty Mint in it is still ghosting my mailbox
Perhaps I’ve got the blends mixed up in my mixed up mind…

Correct - it can leave a ghost - for me, I use it to cover a bad ghost and then run a few smokes of Cavendish through the bowl to chase away the mint.

But...I like mint so perhaps that is a bias I ignore.