Your Own "Worst" Tobacco

[Kobold]

Stonehaven

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I have to say that I used to like this cough syrup when I was a kid! It’s kind of gross but kind of good. Guess I should open up that Stonehaven I have and try it out.

 

[gord]

Good morning Pipers. In my pipe smoking history I have tried many tobacco. I don't much care for a few of these tobaccos but I find some pleasure in most blends that I try.
I am always fascinated by the degree in which taste differ so here is the question.
Is there one tobacco that you have tried and absolutely detested?
Now I realize that everyone will have different answers and of course, there is no judgment in this question, just curiosity.
I will start… For me it was Five Brothers. When I smoked it by itself, I got a little sick from the nicotine hit and felt like I was smoking dry grass. I vowed to never smoke it again. With that being said, I do like to mix it with weaker mixtures to give it a little punch.
What is your "never again" tobacco?

Hmmmm . . . don't believe there is such a thing. Like women, they all have their places. Except in professional orchestras where they cause nothing but trouble.

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

SPC Plumpudding Flake for me. English blends are known to be velvety smooth with a broad spectrum of flavors. This one is harsh and doesn’t have much going on. Not sure what the big deal is about it. The Pease stuff blows it out of the water IMHO as well as many others. Because of this, I have no interests in any of the Plumpudding series.

 

[Jayteest]

Sutliff Peaches & Creme. It’s the only aro I’ve found that genuinely tastes the way it smells, which is not a good thing with this one; way too sweet for my taste.

 

[username]

1792 Flake. I thought i was going to puke

 

[snagstangl]

Worst for me was something that tasted and smelled of Vicks rub. I've blocked the name. It wasn't one mentioned earlier this morning. This was 20+ years ago. I was assured it would grow on me so dedicated a nice little Dunhill to it, which I could not purge later using all the alcohol and salt treatments, and have not smoked since.

I would guess this was Greenbriar, the menthol pipe tobacco.

 

[renfield]

Mixture 79 is a hard pass for me. It just really hit all the wrong buttons, which I didn’t expect.

It has many fans but I’m not one of them.

 

[Pipeoff]

Ten year old tin of Ten Russians Yuk ?

 

[Sobrbiker]

1792 Flake. I thought i was going to puke

Let me know next time you’re driving north on the 10, you can throw it out the window and I’ll grab it

 

[burleybreath]

Paladin Black Cherry from the 1970s was really gross. It literally smelled like urinal cake to me, or cheap car deodorizer. I can't believe they still make it that way, and I don't intend to find out. (The topping on Mixture 79 today, for example, has nowhere near the intensity that it had in the '70s.)

Strangely, I was in an airport lounge once years ago, and a guy smoking one of those bell-shaped Charatans was emitting an unusually appealing pipe scent. I asked him what it was, and he said it was Paladin cut 50/50 with PA. No, I didn't bother experimenting afterwards. The initial impression haunts me to this day, and I believe my cerebral cortex has been ghosted permanently with the crap.

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

Ten year old tin of Ten Russians Yuk ?

I’ve only had it fresh, but found it to be rather bland. The components make it sound like something right up my alley, but just doesn’t have much going on. Also, the purportedly “stout” nicotine was less than medium for me.

 

[trudger]

Dreams of Kadath.

 

[krizzose]

For me it’s easy: 1792 Flake.

I don’t doubt its quality, and I would never equate my subjective taste of something as anything approaching an objective truth, so more power to anyone who loves it.

That being said, this is the reaction I had while smoking that unholy concotion:




Honorable mention goes to Peter Stokkebye Highland Whiskey. I had a bowl from a sample I got at the Chicago show, and nearly threw my pipe across the smoking tent. #notforme

 

[krizzose]

Anything with that Lakeland essence crap. Rancid.

 

[David D. Davidson]

Plenty of aromatics that I don’t particularly enjoy, but there’s only one I’ve ever thrown out - Autumn Evening. So sweet it gave me a toothache, and ghosted a cob so badly I pitched it after.

I imagine it would be a big hit with the average six year old with a sweet tooth though

 

[Mortamyhr]

Sutliff peppermint mocha and half and half were both one and done bowls for me. Straight to the garden with them.

 

[jbfrady]

Kajun Kake... review here

 

[jbfrady]

Without a doubt my pick for most disgusting, vile, nauseating tobacco is Germain’s version of Balkan Sobranie, an unholy blend redolent of gasoline infused puppy farts.

Better than cat farts?

 

[gord]

Plenty of aromatics that I don’t particularly enjoy, but there’s only one I’ve ever thrown out - Autumn Evening. So sweet it gave me a toothache, and ghosted a cob so badly I pitched it after.

I imagine it would be a big hit with the average six year old with a sweet tooth though

Or the average 73 year old with the same . . . .

Ya piqued my interest lol. I've put it on my list of futures! Thanks.

 

[VDL_Piper]

Haunted Bookshop, tried it every way possible and its as rough as this damn road