Natural Tobaccos
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That's what I had read at one time.
I can say that Proudest Monkey from QnJ is VERY smoky and it is Flue-Cured. But it is quite pleasant. I'm guessing Fire-Cured has an edge to it. Based on MM's account, it does!
Hell, you could be right!
I came to know it as the flue made the smoke bypass the tobacco. But what the hell do I know? Living in Tobacco Road don't mean crap!
Nope you were right.
There are curing sheds all over here in NC. Sadly, they are all dilapidated as tobacco farming has nearly disappeared in America. I live on the edge of a vast state park. Miles and miles of state property. I can walk in my back yard and through the forest and find one old dilapidated curing shed after the other. They're all over the place back there.
Okay. I am starting to get it now. Fire-cured is more "smoked" and flue-cured is cured from "curing by exposure to indirect heat, created by moving hot air, smoke or steam through a flue."
Thanks for bringing this up.
And almost all the tobacco fields have been turned over to cotton, soybean, or nothing. When I moved to NC in 1998, there was one tobacco field after the other. Small acreage compared to the vast cornfields in the Midwest. Most got a pretty white flower on them about mid summer and it was always a nice drive through the country looking at these white fields. What I saw was multiple harvesting. They'd harvest the lower leaves first then come back and do the next lowest, then again.
Some (but few) have turned to vineyards (especially in the higher elevations of the Appalachians). North Carolina's wine industry continues to grow and will be quite common in your wine glass in the years to come. Watch out California!
Some (but few) have turned to vineyards (especially in the higher elevations of the Appalachians). North Carolina's wine industry continues to grow and will be quite common in your wine glass in the years to come. Watch out California!
In a weird way, you both were right!
Well, he was right, and I was merely not completely wrong.
In a weird way, you both were right!
Well, they both use fire anyway. But this flue-cured PM is quite smoky in flavor.
Where does all the tobacco come from then? I know Tennessee produces some, but not a significant portion.
Well, something interesting was that in my second to last convo with Rich, he referred to his "fire-cured" base in Proudest Monkey and a few others. This is why when you brought up the two being possibly the same, I got confused again. I could not for the life of me fathom how those were fire-cured just based on taste. I think it was just a slip of the tongue from Rich.
Well, he was right, and I was merely not completely wrong.
I like that way of thinking.
I'll give you one guess. Hint: it's where everything comes from these days.
Oh noes.... Chinese tobacco!?
Yes, and the description on the QnJ site for PM says it is a flue-cured tobacco.
Hmmm...I wonder what it really is? PM is quite smoky flavored.
You know, the tobacco component in a cigarette is a joke. It doesn't even resemble tobacco after they process the hell out of it. I suspect you could grow tobacco in a cesspool and it wouldn't make any difference in a cigarette.
It completely makes sense that Nick and Rich are buddies because they are both genuinely open and honest about what they are doing. I really like those dudes.
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