Lets say, hypothetically, that someone was traveling abroad and had access to a variety of the world's tobaccos; what would you pick up that is still made but you can't get (at least easily) in the US?

As I sit here enjoying my 65 cent, 22 oz. cold beers in China, I was just wondering, hypothetically, of course.

Natch

Funny you should mention that, because yesterday I found my long lost list of "foreign" tobaccos that I would like to pick up some day. The first two I've tried but the others were for sampling purposes.
Capstan Mild/Gold
Three Nuns
Larsen #32
Larsen Shamrock Cut Cake
Mick McQuaid Ready Rubbed
Mick McQuaid Square Cut
Gallaher's Rich Dark Honeydew (not made anymore)

Jim
PS-Please suck down a Tsingtao for me.

Don't even know if any of this stuff is made anymore: BS #759, John Cotton #1, #2, and #1&#2, Barney's Punchbowle....and, of course, all the wonder old original Dunhill blends from long, long ago!!! Chinese beer=damn good lager...drank loads of it back in the good ol' days!! FTRPLT

I guess mine would be either Larsen #28 or # 20.

DUNHILL DELUXE NAVY ROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing, really. All the best blends made abroad are also available in the US. Three Nuns is not what it used to be, so that's that. That is not to say that there aren't good blends there that are unavailable here. Mick McQuaid Square Cut, ACP Caledonian Original Navy Cut No. 499, and Richmond Navy Cut come to mind. But that's because I don't really like aromatics much. If I did, then there are a lot of things there that I would br crying for. Danmark and Germany have the best aromatics I ever smoked, most of which are not available in the US.

I go to Europe often to see family (or used to before the dollar took such a hit; now they come to the States instead). I always take tobacco with me because there is nothing there I care about enough to pay the exorbitant prices charged there.

Very easy call for me: SG RB Plug. Delicious taste and a real lady-wowwer. I still keep some on hand from Synjeco's, but it's a bit more pricey than SG plugs purchased here in the U.S.

Buddy

Don't know if they'd turn out to be favorites or not, but Compton's Cuban-style Cigar Mixture and York Mixture sure sound like they would be (from pipes2smoke dotcom).

Anybody here ever tried either of them ?

Schipper's Tabak Speciaal, formerly made in The Netherlands by Van Rossem, now (reportedly) made by Orlik. As far as I know, it hasn't been available in the U.S. for many years. It's an extremely fine shag cut. Used to be available in tins, but the few European web sites that list it show it as being available only in 50 gram pouches.

It's a unique blend of orange Virginia, air-cured Burley, and fire-cured Kentucky. I don't know whether the blend has changed over the years, but the stuff that used to be available in the U.S. (going back to my first experience with it in ~1967) was a completely natural tobacco with no goopage. In fact, the weed would dry out very quickly because of its fine shag cut. The tin aroma is difficult to describe—it has strong elements of cedar and smoky hardwood, probably due in part to the fire-cured Kentucky. But there really is nothing else to compare it to, which is precisely what I mean when I say it's unique.

In the pipe, it delivers huge thunderbolts of pure, fundamental tobacco flavor, with a bit of natural sweetness and an extraordinary nuttiness, spiced by an aromatic quality that comes from the tobacco itself, not from any additives. The shag cut guarantees a near-mainline injection of nicotine to the unwary smokist. I'd wager the weed is strong enough to knock even T.J. on his ass, despite his titanium alloy, supercharged nicotine-tolerant balls of steel.

One of these days, I'm going to have to suck it up and lay out the bux to order some from across the pond. That's a pricey proposition with the dollar so weak these daze, and the shipping will probably cost more than the weedage. But at the rate the old classics are disappearing, one can no longer assume any tobacco will always be available. It would be a tragedy if such a weedage were lost. I have never found another blend that even remotely resembles it.

Vito, I am astonished that you have smoked the Schipper's in the pouch w/ the green highlights. Perhaps, not so astonished as being genuinely pleased that some other smoker knew of the tobacco. Do you recall the Schipper's Grosse Coupe w/ the brown shading and the ubiquitous Dutch sailor with the clay on the pack? There was only one B&M in Philadelphia where I remember the tobacco being available, in both forms, as well as Neptune, a Dutch flake cut. Neptune might have been Niemeyer, though. What a joyful excursion through Nicotinia. Taking the lead from the pouch drawing, I preferred smoking it in a cutty pipe. There was a powerful astringent or citric aroma in the smoke. A short smoke, but very flavorful.

There were two others from the same period that I haven't sen in more than 30 years: Rotterdam Shag, a black birdseye RYO that went very well in a pipe, and Van Nell's Strong Shag, favored by the Dutch writer Jan Cremer.

GH Revor Plug, which I could only find in the UK. Its a glossy black plug, strong and rich, but does not have the odious "burnt oil" flavor of the black ropes.

Have only smoked a single bowl, courtesy of Jeff Gracik, but it was great and with all the talk I've heard about the various versions, I'd love to get ahold of several good Semois tabacs. I understand that there is a shop or two in Belgium that will ship to the states, but they do not speak English so that's that

Nolo contendere on all counts, Veet.

Still, there's something that appeals to me about a guy who says, "Here it is -- take it or leave it."

Ayn Rand related pretty well to that