Alrighty then...
I opened the tin and the condition was
perfect.
Chopped the bacon strips into 3/8" pieces, buzzed the pieces with spice grinder blips into sprinkle-able looseness, gravity-filled a large-bowled pipe (with a couple pinches added on top to get a perfect draw), and light-ified it.
YUM!!!
It's some massively punchy, massively tasty stuff for sure. Easily an all-time top 5 favorite.
My only regret (of course) is that it's no longer made.
Maybe Rachel will stop by to tell us why it was discontinued so that I can argue with her for several pages about how that was a bad idea, GH&Co doesn't know what they're doing, and so forth.