What is the Worst Pipe Tobacco You have ever Smoked?
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Pretty much anything C&D makes that isn't Yorktown or Bijou.
Some apricot flavored "pipe tobacco" purchased in China that was possibly really RYO.
I believe it was Bayou Morning or Old Joe Krantz. If memory serves, it was one of those that had so much perique I was gagging.
Holly’s Non-Plus Ultra.....just vile.
I had a tin of Red Carpet that was moldy. More like Green Carpet, amiright??
Sutliff’s 515-RC1. They must soak the stuff in a vat of vinegar and melted cotton candy. In smoking it was so corrosive that it was like smoking a war crime wrapped around the idea of a chemical burn.
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Also, I’d been looking to try Yorktown, why is it the worst to you?
He's still in his English phase. Straight Virginias aren't going to register well and taste is terribly subjective. I love Yorktown but I'm more of a regular Virginia smoker.
From the OP:
"Now to be fair, I am a huge fan of Pirate Kake (sic), Star of the East"
John Middleton's Cherry Blend. Burnt my tongue so bad back in 1967 that I almost didn't return to pipe smoking. Tried it again about 5 yrs ago and it had the same effect on me. I'm a long time pipe smoker so I know it's not my technique.
Apparently I like several that others don't. I bought a pouch of Sir Walter Raleigh regular at a gas station in Missouri, along with a cob, and the tobacco I simply couldn't taste. It was a real blank. I enjoyed going through the motions, better than nothing, but taste-wise, it just wasn't there.
Oh gawd, yes. Holly's is a crime against humanity.
Germain's version of Balkan Sobranie is a close second. How anybody with a functioning sense of taste and/or smell, can smoke that mixture redolent of puppy farts and gasoline and not devolve into a steaming pile of bleeding pustulence defies the laws of physics.
What? You don't like C&D's special topping?
I can’t narrow it down to the one absolute worst. So I’ll give my top three.
1. Haddos Delight
2. Haddos Delight
3. Haddos Delight
1. Haddos Delight
2. Haddos Delight
3. Haddos Delight
Any overly topped sprayed on artificial anything just rubs my fur the wrong way.
It’s like watching someone being served fine restaurant coffee and tearing open some powdered, artificially flavored packet of chemicals to ruin it.
The list for me would be a long one. But most recently, I took two puffs (one too many) of Edward G Robinson and mailed it off to a “friend”.
Same sickly sweet “marshmallow” flavor I get from Captain Black and it’s ilk.
Sorry Sherm. Glad you like it. You still Smoke Dirty Pipes.
It’s like watching someone being served fine restaurant coffee and tearing open some powdered, artificially flavored packet of chemicals to ruin it.
The list for me would be a long one. But most recently, I took two puffs (one too many) of Edward G Robinson and mailed it off to a “friend”.
Same sickly sweet “marshmallow” flavor I get from Captain Black and it’s ilk.
Sorry Sherm. Glad you like it. You still Smoke Dirty Pipes.