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Fight'n Hampsters

Fight'n Hampsters

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Out of curiosity, do you stick to one tobacco for an extended period of time (a week, month, or entire tin) or do you switch them up regularly. I have heard that some switch up types of tobaccos with the seasons (summer= burleys and Virginias, winter= latakias).

I noticed that I smoke something different every day but tem to prefer Virginias and burleys during the summer and Latakias in the colder weather.

What do you do?
 
Though I have one tobacco that prefer, I keep about 1/2 dozen jars of various tobaccos open. 99% of the time I choose my favorite, but when the mood strikes I dip into one of the others. This is done year round with no notice paid to the season.
 
I smoke 3 to 4 blends on a regular daily basis adding 1 or 2 occassionally to sort of branch-out and try something new. Back in the pre-'net days it was 1or 2 blends on a regular basis. Ignorance was bliss and things were much simpler :p
 
I am trying to finish some open tobaccos. The one in the pouch becomes the primary until it is gone. If I am bored with it, I will grab a bowl of something else already open.

This is the first time I have stuck with one for days straight. It was definitely a change when I went from a week of Frog Morton Across the Pond to a week of Half & Half. I had not realized the fullness of the Frog until I experienced the lack thereof.
 
I'm a tobacco tramp. I try all sorts of blends and have normally 3 or four tins open at once and a couple bags of bulk.
 
When it comes to tobacco I pretty much need a contant supply of Penicillin because I do a lot of bouncing around. This last week and a half alone I have smoked Virginia Woods, Aged Burley Flake, St. Bruno, G&H Brown Flake, Luxury Bulls Eye, Mac Baren Navy Flake, Peretti Scottish Flake, and Guilford Courthouse.

Yeah, for whatever reason I have been sowing my oats lately.
 
Union Square & Embarcadero. Every once in a while, Full Virginia Flake. = 100%

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Just counted my open tobacco, and including my daily blend of Frog Morton OTT, I have access to 13 different blends.
 
I had a heap open that I've either smoked down or given away. Now I have one aro open (camping friendly!) and another aro a guy in a camp site near me gave to me after I gave him some of mine. I plan on opening another jar or two after I smoke one of the aros down. Incentive!
 
I'm comfortably a polynicotianist, I usually have one or two blends a day to switch things up, out of maybe five or six I have at the moment. Once in a while I'll dig into the "sample box" of stuff people have given me, either to re-confirm findings or flirting with a new 'bacca. :heart:

8)
 
I am an old stick in the mud. Carter Hall almost all the time, with a little Middletons Cherry Blend every so often.
 
kaiser83":cdo8tlqc said:
I'm a tobacco tramp. I try all sorts of blends and have normally 3 or four tins open at once and a couple bags of bulk.
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The same here.
 
kaiser83":p9z4sjfl said:
I'm a tobacco tramp. I try all sorts of blends and have normally 3 or four tins open at once and a couple bags of bulk.
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Tobacco whore is the term I've seen bantered about around here from time to time. :lol: I seldom smoke the same tobacco twice in a row much less than twice in a day. When I'm smoking a just opened tin, or a blend I haven't had before (or smoked for many years), I may smoke a bowl a day of that particular tobacco for a few days to get a feel for it, but then I morph off to something different. Short attention span, I guess, or easily distracted?

Natch
 
Glad to see I'm not alone! I jar everything i buy and make sure I put some in a small 4oz mason jar for sampleing. That gives me access to close to 50 different blends without having to disturb what I have ageing. Now I don't smoke all fifty mind you. Some of those are aros that I may tap in to only twice a year.
 
DGErwin11":b7xetm1s said:
I am an old stick in the mud. Carter Hall almost all the time, with a little Middletons Cherry Blend every so often.
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When you find what works, stick with it. :D

CH is always one I return to.
 
Come to think of it, there was a reason why I chose the 4oz and 8oz jars for most tobacco... even if it's in a pound or more in bulk, the little jars mean you're not drying everything else out, and if you decide to shelf the stuff for some time, well, there they sit. :lol:

For that matter, the small tins also have this advantage.

"Tobacco whores" abound. Plus, it's easier to say than "polynicotianist." :lol:

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Kyle Weiss":xlz36zpq said:
"Tobacco whores" abound. Plus, it's easier to say than "polynicotianist." :lol:
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Yeah, I practically had to sound that out, poly-nico-tian-ist. New words, new words.
 
Kyle Weiss":tyid1x05 said:
I'm comfortably a polynicotianist, I usually have one or two blends a day to switch things up, out of maybe five or six I have at the moment. Once in a while I'll dig into the "sample box" of stuff people have given me, either to re-confirm findings or flirting with a new 'bacca. :heart:

8)
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Ok, I have to quote Kyle. Not just because he is accurate to my general way of being, but I love the term "polynicotianist". :cheers:

Of course, I can not even keep to my own stable of concubintins, I have to sample the flavours offered by way of my friend's stable. :| 8)
 
I have a greater variety of baccys than the library of congress has books.
 
I usually have 2-4 in something of a rotation and 1-3 opened that I dip into when I feel like it, but none have stayed constant until this past summer -- when you start off with 750 grams I would think most would keep it in the rotation (Grasmere Flake in my case). However, I have scores of unopened to try, so the other spots will remain open!
 
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