When you can't decide what to smoke, what do you ultimately reach for? For me, it's almost always Carter Hall in the AM and Capstan Blue in the afternoon. The evenings are still a real pickle for me. Going to try Vanilla Roll Cake.
Your Enduring Fallback Smoke?
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I do not have a fallback. I will have four to six jars/tins open, and just draw from those. I don't even have an absolute favorite, because recipes and differences in harvest, changes in who manufactures it... makes them change. I used to say that McClellands Guillotine Slices... but.... then it was Astleys 109 was my fav, but then STG fucked it up. Then it was Escudo, and then STG fucked that up too. I have since developed a strong repulsion to the morons running STG as of late. But, now, I just don't get attached to any single blend. And, I avoid all of the shit that comes out of STG. But, if C&D went tits up, I'd just quit smoking pipes.
Crooner or Old Joe Krantz Blue. Simple, non distracting, great smells/tastes. 
Comfortable.
Comfortable.
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In the mornings it is usually 2012 Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug or 2012 Rotary Navy Cut. Next is usually Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake or Astleys no 44 Dark Flake. Next is either a Vaper or a Vabur. When I can't decide I just go to my 2007 Stonehaven or 2005 Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky, or my 2012 Dunhill Deluxe Navy Rolls or 2012 Solani 633. There are times when I want to smoke a specific pipe so I will grab the tobacco that goes with that pipe.
All of these blends and pipes will change for a few months, then I get on a kick with other pipes and tobacco. I never stay on the same blends or pipes for very long as I do like variety.
All of these blends and pipes will change for a few months, then I get on a kick with other pipes and tobacco. I never stay on the same blends or pipes for very long as I do like variety.
In the warmer months my fallback was Autumn Evening. Now that it's colder I find it to be MacBaren Vanilla Roll Cake and Maltese Falcon.
If nothing else is calling to me, I would probably default to BLWB.
One tobacco that has endured for me, and I always come back to is SG Full Virginia plug.
Not keen on the flake, doesn't even come close IMO.
Not keen on the flake, doesn't even come close IMO.
Something that doesn’t need drying, which in my cellar invariably means Latakia as all the non-Lat blends are ribbons flakes and plugs, given I don’t much like Latakia nowadays I always plan ahead 
That or a C&D tin I am trying to get rid of.
That or a C&D tin I am trying to get rid of.
My normal day consists mostly of two blends. GLP Chelsea Morning with my coffee, and Low Country Cooper during the day. But, 2 or 3 times a week I want a bowl of something else, and that's when I reach for one of about 30 jars to smoke a bowl from. I intentionally mix it up, so I don't always grab the same type of blend. It just gives me a chance to smoke something different, and inevitably reinforces my choice that my two daily smokers are what I like the most.
My fall back is ready to smoke, no prep or drying required, Telegraph Hill.
When I get burned out on C&D's Pegasus, I usually reach for a Virginia like Newminster 400 Superior Navy Flake or Sutliff Virginia Slices 507-C.
I enjoy Pease blends and currently my go to blend of his is Six Pence.