Hell, the “originals” weren’t like their originals!
What Retired Blends Would you Bring Back?
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The 'original' 'original' was nothing like the current 'original'!
Somewhere buried on the site is a thread from a now long deceased Florida attorney who expended vast amounts of recycled electrons arguing with Dan about how John Cotton's was not the original - even though we never claimed it was the original. It was a near as damn it possible recreation of the original based on careful analysis of an original tin from that era. Tobacco changes, soil chemistry changes, weather and growing seasons vary so if the same product was made today by the original company it would probably taste markedly different. The analogy I often use is the companies that produce bottles of Macallan 1890 or 1930s that they have used blended scotches to recreate that flavor profile and bottled it in a reproduction of the bottle style from that time. The SToP blends were as near as possible to the original given the skills of the blender who painfully recreated them for the public.
Maybe not the most exciting choices, but I'd like to see Middleton Apple and Cherry brought back. I can't seem to find any aromatic with a good strong apple flavor these days and I just really enjoyed the flavor of Middleton Cherry when I was younger. They were both bitey as all get out, but they sure were tasty to me.
I remember that deceased idiot. He went by some classical sounding name like Flacidus, or Flattulence or Flatticus. Jut insanely obnoxious and relentless. I'll bet he was highly effective in his law practice.
Yeah, I was here then. But need a name, or exact title of thread, and even then, someone may have hard deleted it.
I think I had also read the Brown Sugar flake was an attempt to recreate Orlik Brown Sliced, is that not correct?
@jpmcwjr: Try searching threads on either 'War Horse' or 'El Crappo Tobacco Unlimited Ltd' which was the original name for The Standard Tobacco Company of PA Ltd until we changed it since C.I absolutely refused to put the word 'crap' on one of their tins of tobacco. I cannot imagine why they would object but then they do make some interesting stuff!
Just couldn't sustain his objection.
He was a divorce attorney from Florida and there was a blog about his death since he died under rather murky circumstances if I recall correctly. He had a side kick who was studying law who used to post here and then disappeared off to another site to become a moderator. I seem to remember he had an unopened tin of John Cotton's and we asked him for a sample or if he wanted to sell the tin. I seem to remember he was outrage we didn't offer him a share in the company in exchange for a sample from his tin!
I want C&D to bring this back. I believe it's from the 1900 to 1910 era and from one of my favorite places New Haven CT. I believe it was popular at Yale during that time. But I do not think anyone knows what it is supposed to taste like.
What it tastes like is glaringly irrelevant. As long as it has the name you can put Alpo in there and schmucks will buy it.
This is what happens when you listen to doctors. L. L. (Llewellyn Luther) Stoddard was told to travel for his health and it killed him. He would have been better off staying home:
