when to stop TAD

[woodsroad]

That video was uploaded by ClassicPipes' Dion, a great Morley's and LVPC member. Yes, sh*t happens with commercially processed tobacco from time to time, and it's good to have a heads up on potential problems with specific brands and blends, but it is quite rare. Processed tobacco is treated with food grade anti-fungal agents, such as Calcium Propionate, and one has to assume that errors do occur in processing and they forget to add it.
But the question remains:

When to stop buying tobacco?

I have an answer: The time to stop buying tobacco will come when our government has made it impossible to buy. And that day, my friends, is closer than you may think. Buy while you can, before the Big Man takes it away from you.

 

[bullethead]

woodsroad. When to stop buying tobacco? and the Big Man takes it away from you.
the Big Man isn't going to take it from me. I'll just renounce my citizenship and move to South America or Asia. Figure they'll be out a couple of million in forced taxes from me (sales, capital gains, social security, income, tobacco, property, gas, sin taxes, etc...) as I'm 37 and got a long ways to go. If that happens I'll be out of here so fast.
The other option is to start the revolution, but they'll have the drones locked on me so it is better to just renounce citizenship and get the hell out at that point.

 

[saltedplug]

I bought a lot of tobacco in 2012 for fear of the tax man, who as yet not cometh. Given the anti environment and the money that some governmental entity is losing, and the relatively low-tax environment that the US continues to enjoy, it is beyond me that the greedy bastards haven't as yet gotten it together. From what I know taxes are tied up with the FDA.
All praise be to bureaucracy! I've got to believe they are still coming for us. My plan was to smoke most of the time from the 2012 haul, but in actuality I'm still spending too much on tobacco. Something new comes along, and I gotta have it: Semois, Condor, Sillem's Commodore Flake, R. Ouelette's Golden Triangle due out in the fall. The problem with tobacco is that there are so many great tobaccos. I can't cellar them all, but I have to at least get the top contender's calling my name.
In the end I certainly have more restraint than earlier on, but I don't think I'll ever stop buying new pipes and tobacco, and with 50 pipes and 160 pounds of tobacco, I'm certainly not buying from need.

 

[decigar]

P&C pulled all their tins of Kajun Kake
Due to quality control issue with our last received shipment, we have pulled our stock and will not be able to ship product until we receive a new shipment.
http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/72653/cornell-diehl-kajun-kake/

 

[saltedplug]

Here's to a truly pithy, and outrageously funny statement just above:
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits" - Albert Einstein

 

[baccyfart]

decigar, that's good to hear! P&C is top-notch!

 

[cigrmaster]

4nogginsmike, I started buying in huge quantities in 2012 as well. In the next 1.5 years I had accumulated 250 pounds and completed my cellar( so I thought). I recently added 4 new blends to the cellar so I have been slowly loading up on them. Just when I thought I was done, they pull me back in( Godfather reference).

 

[weezell]

^^^You speak the truth my Brother...

 

[matchstickman]

I've smoked a lot of tins the last few years and I've only had incidents with two of them. One was a tin of Irish Flake that, during the production process, a few flecks of tobacco had gotten into the glue that seals the tin closed, so the tin wasn't sealed air tight all the way. Had it for months before I opened it, no mold, not dry, smoked fine.
As for those bulging tins, BE CAREFUL when you go to open them. Had a tin of Old Joe Krantz that was bulging, went to pop the ring on the tin lid, and I shit you not, the lid EXPLODED, so loud that my neighbors thought it was a gunshot. Scared the shit out of me and hurt two fingers in the process.

 

[jon11]

^^^^ How did the contents smoke after the explosion?

 

[matchstickman]

Smoked great. I love me some Old Joe Krantz. Really high octane, full of nicotine. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the leaf inside, it wasn't even that far aged as I recall, maybe 8, 9 months? Kind of surprising really. Thinking maybe someone at the warehouse just overfilled that particular tin.

 

[jon11]

I have some swollen tins of OJK. I also have a good amount of Triple Play that were bulging after 8 months or so too. Magic happening in those tins! Can't wait to smoke them down the road!

 

[matchstickman]

Fair warning, OJK made me a little dizzy, and I have a massive nicotine tolerance. The stuff is 25% perique, so it is a powerhouse, very tasty, very full and satisfying. Also, be warned that it has the capability of ghosting a pipe since it has so much perique in it. I keep a couple of pounds of it around at any given time. Pack it tightly cause it burns readily.