Flue Cured vs. Flue Cured vs. Flue Cured

[mikea]

No, bestecig and dekang are not the same. Bestecig manufactures their own, so it's unique. Can't tell you who is selling their juice. It's been a while since I ordered from them (my first e-juice purchase actually) and I was a noob at the time. I remember their flue cured as being okay, but nothing to get super excited about.

I did order some sample bottles from them and wasn't thrilled by the Flue Cured. Some of this was due to a less-than-thrilling experience with the Flue Cured bottle itself. The tube that feeds to the dropper tip was blocked. I didn't realize that. I thought it was just another one of those bottles with a slightly smaller than usual diameter tube inside. I have several like that. I squeezed just a bit harder -- not super-hard...and suddenly the entire dropper tip came flying off the bottle. Immediately half the contents of the bottle ended up on the counter. I've seen some defective bottles come out of China, but that one won the prize. Best Ecig's response about it was noncommital at best. As in: we'll look into it. (Yeah, thanks a bunch, folks. You do that.) I thought twice about ordering 500ml of Flue Cured from them after that and it's probably just as well...

I found the flavor of Liquidxpress' and Rocky Mountain Vapor's Flue Cured to be really good, with the LX flavor being slightly stronger. But they're close.

I recall some people saying that the flavor called "Virginia" is close to Flue Cured, but the one small bottle of "Virginia" I got (from Eastmall, I think) wasn't much like the LX or RMV versions of Flue Cured.

tobacco flavorings are interesting. You can get all kinds of fruit flavors (or coffee, chocolate, etc.) from Lorann's. But I wonder how these vendors make up their tobacco flavorings. It can't just be the tobacco absolute. I would think that must be a kind of generic flavor. They must guard their formulae carefully.

 

[mikea]

I agree, everyone should like exactly the same things. Like, food, hamburgers, pizza, hot dogs, fried chicken. Period, end of story. Mexican food is too hot. I was trying to make that (obvious) point to this one lady, and she said to me something like "De gustibus non est disputandum," and, well, I'm not proud of this, but I coldcocked her. I don't know what she meant, since I only like the English language, but I just didn't like her tone if you get my meaning. I think I made my point, but I'm not sure. It didn't come up at the trial.

But seriously, I do love that Flue Cured stuff.

Well, you shouldn't. Other people don't. You just aren't getting the message. (This of course will cease to be a problem once the whole food and drug thing has been nationalized by that guy with the messianic complex. Not to worry.)

"De gustibus non est disputandum," eh? I just hate it when people butcher Esperanto that way. Now listen up. I'm going to say this only once. What she actually meant was "That idiot, Gustav, isn't worth arguing with," which was a stupid thing to say to someone who clearly doesn't have any idea who Gustav is, not to mention to someone with as short a temper as you obviously have. (Notice I'm saying this from quite a distance away and am not revealing my address.) Still, you probably did the right thing -- and sorry about the jail term. I hear the food's terrible. Plus, you can't vape there. Not even Flue Cured. Which you shouldn't like in the first place since other people don't.

 

[miketr]

Well, you shouldn't. Other people don't. You just aren't getting the message.

I bow to your greater wisdom, of course, on this topic. But I'm not violent, I don't own a gun case or any rifle ammo. However I do collect mobile howitzers. They can just try to get me into prison.

 

[mikea]

I bow to your greater wisdom, of course, on this topic. But I'm not violent, I don't own a gun case or any rifle ammo. However I do collect mobile howitzers. They can just try to get me into prison.

Yeah, the iHowitzer. Cool. I really want one of those. (If Howitzer Control puts you in prison, can I have your stuff?) Also some Flue Cured.

No, wait, I have some already. It's French Pipe I'm after now. I'm trying to find the FP "version" with a very strong, smoky, almost cigar-like flavor -- no sweetness at all. But not all FP is created equal. Some of it is sweet-ish (tack!) (sorry) and kind of mild. The FP I would like to find has a serious bite to it -- almost a woody flavor. (All right, knock it off with the childish snickering this instant...)

 

[miketr]

Maybe you could check out the DIY eLiquid forums where they talk about getting various kinds of tobacco essence online and mixing up your own. That is the ultimate control over flavor, but not all of the available types are available in retail prices/quantities as far as I know yet, so that's the drawback. I guess my next tobacco try-out will be the French Pipe. You've made me curious, sir.