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<blockquote data-quote="old_salt" data-source="post: 178239" data-attributes="member: 356"><p>A couple of years back I posted a history of "Navy Flake" but I'll be damned if I can find the original.</p><p></p><p>The basic highlights are.</p><p>1. It's the process, not the recipe, In the OLD days when sailors ran the decks bare foot they "Holy Stoned" pumice blocks on a stick to remove slivers </p><p></p><p>2. Every thing they owned they had to carry in their ditty bags so space was a premium. So tobacco was placed in pieces of Sail canvass & twisted</p><p>like one wrings out a towel to compress it. hence the term Twist which also applies to ropes.</p><p>The lacing with Rum had more to do with preservation than flavoring,</p><p></p><p>As with the Bread & meat , tobacco was prone to be infested with maggots & Weevils so the tobacco was heavily doused with rum to protect it from the bugs.</p><p></p><p>Pressed+ Rum = Navy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="old_salt, post: 178239, member: 356"] A couple of years back I posted a history of "Navy Flake" but I'll be damned if I can find the original. The basic highlights are. 1. It's the process, not the recipe, In the OLD days when sailors ran the decks bare foot they "Holy Stoned" pumice blocks on a stick to remove slivers 2. Every thing they owned they had to carry in their ditty bags so space was a premium. So tobacco was placed in pieces of Sail canvass & twisted like one wrings out a towel to compress it. hence the term Twist which also applies to ropes. The lacing with Rum had more to do with preservation than flavoring, As with the Bread & meat , tobacco was prone to be infested with maggots & Weevils so the tobacco was heavily doused with rum to protect it from the bugs. Pressed+ Rum = Navy [/QUOTE]
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