Idlefellow
West of the East and East of the West
Someone recently asked members to list their favorite tobaccos, restricting it to tobaccos currently available. That prompted me to wonder: what are your favorites that are no longer available? Some on my list have "match" blends out there; a few I've tried, and I must admit I've been disappointed each time. But maybe that's just me, and my idealized remembrance. My list...
1) Flying Dutchman. How I loved it; that angel hair cut, that aroma...with that cut it's a wonder I still have a tongue. But when smoked slowly...aaahhhh!
2) Brindley's Mixture. We were together for a long time, then somehow my pipes got laid by the wayside for a time, and when I picked them up again...alas, Brindley's was not to be found.
3) Balkan Sobranie #759. To my mind there's never been an English Mixture that approached it.
4) Rattray's Black Mallory. Well, maybe one...it's been "reissued" and I have a couple tins laid back, with high hopes.
5) Troost. The quintessential Dutch tobacco that the others aspired to, and the best logo out there. I loved it well.
6) Klompen Kloggen. I had a pouch or two back in my college days and kinda wondered, with that name, if I made it up. I remember a sort of peachy/apricot-y aromatic; just wanted to see if it's what I remembered.
7) Professor. An English blend made up by a local shop long gone. I played banjo for a school play once and they wanted to buy me a gift; I asked for a pound of it and got it! Can you imagine that happening today?
8) McClelland's British Woods. Last but definitely not least. After years of searching for "my Arcadia" (apologies to Sir James Barrie) I found it, only to have McClelland's go out of business. Seems a bit unfair.
1) Flying Dutchman. How I loved it; that angel hair cut, that aroma...with that cut it's a wonder I still have a tongue. But when smoked slowly...aaahhhh!
2) Brindley's Mixture. We were together for a long time, then somehow my pipes got laid by the wayside for a time, and when I picked them up again...alas, Brindley's was not to be found.
3) Balkan Sobranie #759. To my mind there's never been an English Mixture that approached it.
4) Rattray's Black Mallory. Well, maybe one...it's been "reissued" and I have a couple tins laid back, with high hopes.
5) Troost. The quintessential Dutch tobacco that the others aspired to, and the best logo out there. I loved it well.
6) Klompen Kloggen. I had a pouch or two back in my college days and kinda wondered, with that name, if I made it up. I remember a sort of peachy/apricot-y aromatic; just wanted to see if it's what I remembered.
7) Professor. An English blend made up by a local shop long gone. I played banjo for a school play once and they wanted to buy me a gift; I asked for a pound of it and got it! Can you imagine that happening today?
8) McClelland's British Woods. Last but definitely not least. After years of searching for "my Arcadia" (apologies to Sir James Barrie) I found it, only to have McClelland's go out of business. Seems a bit unfair.
