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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 500581" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>I worked in a tobacco shop for a few years in the 90s. Sold a TON of Three Castles to college kids and smoked my fair share along with them (I had a great, very lenient boss). I think Three Sails is a fine tobacco, but it neither looks like Three Castles, nor tastes like Three Castles. The Three Sails I received the other day is shag (looks like a clump of human hair), which really surprised me. I'm not exactly digging through the RYO websites, but this is the first shag I've seen in several months. I thought the new laws had all but made it extinct. That Semois (sp?) burley is also shag cut. I had some of that gifted to me a while back, but I obviously don't consider that in the same market as some of these D&R or Stokkebyes.</p><p></p><p>Three Castles was never a true shag. It had a little wider cut than that. Drum was a true shag. Three Castles was cut thin enough to roll well and thick enough to smoke in a pipe. It was cut thinner than the new versions of the Stokkebye dual purpose tobaccos and thinner than all the other D&R tobaccos I've seen so far (other than Three Sails).</p><p></p><p>Not to beat a dead horse or to repeat myself like a mallet. Just wanted to be clear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 500581, member: 1211"] I worked in a tobacco shop for a few years in the 90s. Sold a TON of Three Castles to college kids and smoked my fair share along with them (I had a great, very lenient boss). I think Three Sails is a fine tobacco, but it neither looks like Three Castles, nor tastes like Three Castles. The Three Sails I received the other day is shag (looks like a clump of human hair), which really surprised me. I'm not exactly digging through the RYO websites, but this is the first shag I've seen in several months. I thought the new laws had all but made it extinct. That Semois (sp?) burley is also shag cut. I had some of that gifted to me a while back, but I obviously don't consider that in the same market as some of these D&R or Stokkebyes. Three Castles was never a true shag. It had a little wider cut than that. Drum was a true shag. Three Castles was cut thin enough to roll well and thick enough to smoke in a pipe. It was cut thinner than the new versions of the Stokkebye dual purpose tobaccos and thinner than all the other D&R tobaccos I've seen so far (other than Three Sails). Not to beat a dead horse or to repeat myself like a mallet. Just wanted to be clear. [/QUOTE]
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