Your Heritage, Your Pipe Smoking

[BlueMaxx]

Whereas I am a practising Catholic and quite enjoy Presbyterian Mixture...

Cheers from another practicing Catholic...

Almost ordered some Presbyterian today but went with two tins of Hearth & Home Blackhouse instead..

As far as heritage, I still remember sitting in the kitchen of my grandparents who mostly spoke old Dutch German and I still have his little two pipe hobo stand..the only thing I have from him..they immigrated from Germany.
I remember the smell of him smoking and how when he was playing clabber he would rap his knuckles so lout it would scare me when he threw a card down and let out a puff of that sweet tobacco smoke

My dad's side is Cherokee, from the Kentucky area, and his mom married a German..

I am from a very German area. St. Meinrad is right up the road.....amazing place. A Benedictine monastery.
Grew up in an area of devout German Catholics, it still is...and dad was in WWII...always wondered about that...having to go face germans.


As far as my genetic family history, all I know is I was born in Cincinnati...and am hoping there was a pipe smoker amongst either parent, but who knows...

 

[badbriar]

Scottish blood here. Seems the genetics proved correct, as exemplified by my fondness for Scottish ale, nice Islays and stout Scottish blends.

 

[vates]

What relevance does a Balkan blend have if any to the Balkans? Did Tito smoke a pipe?

That's because they contain Turkish (Oriental) leaf. Up until late 19ct, most of Balkans was under Osman rule hence the moniker.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

That's because they contain Turkish (Oriental) leaf. Up until late 19ct, most of Balkans was under Osman rule hence the moniker.

But were those tobaccos cultivated in that portion of the Ottoman Empire or popular in those areas?

 

[vates]

Yes, it wasn't clear from my comment. Those tobaccos were partially cultivated on Balkans (as well as in Asia Minor and Middle East). Plus, British buyers mostly procured the leaf from the European part of the Sublime Porte.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Yes, it wasn't clear from my comment. Those tobaccos were partially cultivated on Balkans (as well as in Asia Minor and Middle East). Plus, British buyers mostly procured the leaf from the European part of the Sublime Porte.

Thanks for the clarification I looked it up on wiki previously and don’t think it went as far as to provide that information.

 

[Magpiety]

One side of my family is Amish, and I grew up helping with harvest every year while they all smoked cobs the whole time. I was "introduced" to the pipe elsewhere, so i'm not sure i'm allowed to claim that as my pipe heritage.

 

[Elric]

Just an Austrian/Polish/Scottish mutt here. That about sums up my smoking habits as well.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ancestry was never a big deal to anyone in my family. As a human being, I have enough stress dealing with my day to day than to pin some ancestry nonsense to myself. I'm not sure how I could benefit from aligning myself with anything other than just being an American.

 

[mso489]

When I was an enlisted guy in the U.S. Navy (worker bee) it was immersion diversity, every possible ethnicity in close quarters for months at a time, like on a minesweeper or on Midway Island in the remote mid-Pacific. It was United Nations in a phone booth. Now and then I would cautiously, politely, ask another generic white guy what his family pre-American identity was, and many simply didn't know. I thought that was interesting. Not much family lore passed along, or alternately, they somehow didn't think it was important or a plus. On the ship we were Euro, Afro, Native American, Filipino, and many combinations thereof. Basically your life depended on these guys, so you were the best shipmate you could be. It wasn't just a work place, and you couldn't quit.