Southern Bread

I know what you’re thinking and no, I didn’t take a picture of my toilet and put it on the blog. This is what you call “twist” tobacco. I recently read about it in the last issue of Pipes and Tobacco magazine. Saying recently is kind of ironic though, because this form of tobacco has been around for centuries. It was a common way of making a tobacco that was very portable. The tight twisting and outer wrap helped to keep it from drying out over time. Because of this it was a favorite of sailors who could just keep it in their pocket over the course of a voyage. It’s still being made by a company called Samuel Gawith and they are evidently one of the only ones in the world making this style of tobacco still.

I managed to get my hands on some last week and got to smoke it for the first time last night. It was a very pleasant smoke. The nicotine content was definitely high so you don’t want to smoke it on an empty stomach if you are sensitive to nicotine as I am. I just peeled it apart and cut it up with kitchen shears into small bits. This seemed to work fine though I’m not sure if it’s the proper way to do it or not. Here are a couple of pics:

You can get some twist for yourself at SmokingPipes.com.

And here’s the review of the above tobacco at TobaccoReviews.com.