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Subject: More on British Blending


Puffers wishing to try a range of British-style tobaccoes might try the ones
sold under the "Rattray's" brand. (They're actually Scottish.  No offense
meant to anyone involved in _that_ eternal debate. :-))

They range from very heavy, almost chewy-tasting, Latakia-loaded
blends (Rattray's Black Mallory) to tasty midweights (Rattray's
Red Rapparee) to plain Virginia blends (No. 7;  Accountant's Mixture).

My favorites are the No. 7 and the Red Rapparee, which I may be spelling
wrong.  It's fun telling people I'm smoking "Rrrratrray's Rrrred
Rrrrapparrree," too.  The Accountant's mixture is good, too, but
almost like smoking "Lawyer's Mixture" as far as name appeal goes. :-)

[Aside on aromatics: On tobacco choices, of course, chacun a son gout
asolutement.  But whenever I smoke a heavily dosed aromatic, I think
of the high school chemistry demo where the teacher burns sugar by
pouring acid on it, releasing great clouds of steam and piles of
graphite.  I keep imagining that's what's going on in my pipe.

On the other hand, smoking Latakia blends is often a solitary 
pleasure. De gustibus, to drag in yet another language.]


					phil

				Phil Gustafson, Graphics/UN*X Consultant
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