During the past summer I have smoked three or four pouches, and frankly it's nothing to shout miracle, but nothing to throw away as well.

Blue Ridge is a (very) cheap mild virginia blend having no great ambitions nor great flaws. Of course I would never spend my lifetime smoking this alone, nor compare it with the astounding complexity of a FVF (... at three times the price of BR). But I'm of those who also appreciate the plain and uncomplicate smoke of say a Gold Block, and I think BR belongs to that philosophy of smoke.

To cut it short, BR works good as change of pace for a day of absent-minded mild smoke, and much more as a diluting agent for other strong tobaccos. Try it 50/50 with a Semois, if you feel it too strong for the morning...

BTW: I gave a sample to a friend smoker of RYO, he didn't report any enthusiastic opinion, "too full & aromatic" he said.

The packet of Blue Ridge I just bought is “made in Denmark for Swedish Match” and proclaims itself a ‘Virginia Blend’.

Pros: it is made of some sort of combustible vegetable matter, and produces smoke when lit.

Cons: see ‘Pros’ above.

The write-up stays non-committal about its intended use, so I remain unclear as to whether it’s meant for pipe or paper. Either destination would be equally unlucky to receive it, and so, both wise and modest, it calls itself only a ‘smoking tobacco’ - an appellation which did at least remove my vestigial doubt that it was in fact intended as a fertilizer tobacco, or perhaps a roofing tobacco. I am too poor and too mean to do the decent ecological thing and put this on the compost heap, so I will use it as a bulking agent in very small doses, hoping that my real tobaccos do not notice.