Recent content by GCook

Not the most fun... but way up there.

Peretti's Royal! Do it! If you want to go further, Tashkent. As to the problem of cigarette-y Virginias, smoke them slow, so slow they barely stay lit. I have to use big bowls to achieve this, given my habits.

I did pop a tin of Classic Samsun last summer. Extravagance is sometimes justified.

I have a relatively extensive cellar with many unicorns. The thing is, I enjoy so many easy to replenish blends (WCC, Peretti, codger, etc.) that it makes no sense to pop a $70+ tin, despite probably enjoying it 25% more. So the McClellands, the Pease Syrians, the old Dunhills just take up...

Well, that's like saying champagne only truly comes from a small area in France. Maybe C&D only uses pure Poche, but I'm skeptical. That was an interesting article. What caught my eye was the varieties of leaf used in the varieties of perique-processed products including Virginia and dark...

Tastes change. I am prepared. It's actually fun when they do. Like a senile old guy always meeting new friends.

I cannot tolerate the perique C&D uses (or used in early 2000s, I haven't purchased since). I do recall green, ammonia, undercured tastes that diminished in time, specific to C&D. Rather than continue dealing with them, I buy other brands.

Although not exactly a sour taste, I got a very strong mouth burning from C&D perique blends. I chalk it up to an allergy. Allergies can often develop later in life. Oddly, perique blends from other companies have little to no affect. Given my history with that company and moldy products, I...

I needed a new heating system worse than tobacco. That, and cracking open a hundred dollar tin disturbed my frugal senses. I have many enjoyable WCC blends I like just as much. Let wealthy people enjoy their wealth with status symbols. It will soon be subzero here but warm indoors.

Good on ya. There is certainly a cancel culture out there, but equally annoying is the shouting culture. It's nice to be free of spouters. They are wearying.

I got desensitized back in college art classes. The professor enjoyed hiring 70 year old women as nude models. "Everyone knows what a nude 24 year old looks like. With Thelma here, you HAVE to look and observe, and that's the point." Brrr. Despite hundreds of pairs of nicer ones observed...

Looking back on my own awkward dickitude, I see it was a manifestation of immaturity. I'm much better now.

I suppose I became an adult when I moved out of my parent's house at 18 and had to support myself. That said, I never bought into the "responsibility" of having kids, having observed my parent's happiness or lack thereof of having them. Many consider me not fully adult because of that. I fart...

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C. S. Lewis

2006 tin of Laurel Heights, for reference.  It's been open a few years; I don't care for C&D virginias.  I like the tin note, though.