What Can I Do With This Stuff?

[panamacharlie]

I was gifted several one pound bags of THE GOOD STUFF pipe tobacco, which I learned is really for RYO cigarettes. While I was initially thankful to have been the giftee, I find it to be almost unsmokable. So my initial thought was to mix it with an aromatic, like BCA. This would certainly improve the Stuff, but on the other hand it would degrade my BCA. Any advice?

 

[bigpond]

Waste bin?

 

[zack24]

Go buy some rolling papers and give the tobacco and rolling papers to the first homeless guy you meet. He'll be happy and you can go home and enjoy a bowl full of BCA knowing you did your good deed for the day... 8)

 

[michiganlover]

Give it away is your only option. No reason to ruin good tobacco simply because you feel you have an obligation to smoke it.

 

[newbroom]

You would be amazed at what adding some perique and or latakia will do for it.

 

[sw0snuff3r]

You can make some insecticide with it.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

You can grind it in to flour to make homemade dip. Many recipes are available online.

 

[jpmcwjr]

You could add it to compost! Seriously, I would not smoke that crap.
And, welcome to the forum!
What do you like to smoke, and in what?

 

[warren]

Me? I'd toss it.

 

[voorhees]

I work at a cigar shop and I get the same question all the time. We care Buoy and Golden Harvest "pipe" tobacco. It's not true pipe tobacco its how they get around the taxes on cigarette tobacco. Its RYO and very disgusting.
And they always ask me "How is it?" I wanna say its terrible, but I just shrug and have no idea.

 

[michaelmirza]

I like Zack24's idea. Use it to make someone's day.

 

[panamacharlie]

What do you like to smoke, and in what?

Let me put it this way, my last order included a couple bags of various aromatics, three 1.5 boxes of PSLBF, and one box of PSLNF
It might be difficult to find somebody to give it to, and three pounds is a heck of a lot of cigarettes!
I've been a lurker for quite a while, just never felt smart enough to post.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

That's like 7-8 cartons of smokes. You can ship it to me and I'll make dip out of it.

 

[aldecaker]

Never felt smart enough to post? Why, that's never stopped anyone before! Welcome aboard.

 

[iamn8]

Most of us aren't smart enough to post. Most of us aren't smart enough to walk and chew gum. I'm amazed on an almost daily basis that anyone here lives unsupervised...but we have fun trying ::

 

[deathmetal]

I find it to be almost unsmokable.

There's that key word almost. This man gives some good advice:

You would be amazed at what adding some perique and or latakia will do for it.

As you intuited, the only thing that will help is something with a strong flavor that will crowd out the mediocrity. My guess is that dark fired, Perique or Latakia are your real options there. In particular, if you did a test batch, you might consider adding some dark fired and Perique at about 10% each and see what happens. If that lightens whatever flavors you found appalling the first time around, then you have a solution. If not, you're rapidly at the point where you will be smoking 1/3 to 1/2 of good tobacco to make the bad palatable, which then gives you four to six pounds of an OK blend in order to save three pounds of disaster.
As some have written, 70% of tobacco is grown for use as a pesticide. As long as you do not have children around who eat the dirt out of your flower beds, consider casting some around the beds as a way of keeping bugs at bay.

 

[hakchuma]

Gift it to new forum members and tell them it's royal yacht.

 

[fnord]

You're doing just fine, Panama. Welcome aboard.
I'm with Zack. Dole it out, with a shitload of Bugler papers, to a couple of guys and call it good.
Fnord

 

[jndyer]

I second, well actually by this time I would say I am thirding or fourthing (or whatever the count is), the idea of buying some rolling papers and handing it out to people you see panhandling and smoking. On occasion I will see a panhandler who is smoking and go buy them a pouch of tops or bugle. I have always been amazed at how thankful they are for the gesture.