Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish

I am a big fan of Lane Limited Cherry flavored tobacco products. I feel that their Very Cherry bulk tobacco and their Captain Black Cherry are the quintessential cheery tobaccos that taste exactly like they smell and have a flavor more akin to a cherry lifesaver instead of Cherry Night Quil. Thus, when I found a 12 oz bag of Smoker?s Pride Cherry Pipe tobacco for only $6.49 I figured, wow what a deal! It smells like Very Cherry and since it is made by Lane Limited it will taste close, or just as good for half the price! Sadly, I was wrong. It didn?t even taste half as good actually, it was just plain bad. Instead of the cherry lifesaver taste I have come to expect from Lame Limited products I was hit with a chemical cherry flavor that reminded my of the Cherry flavored Night Quil that I hate in cough syrups and hate even more on tobacco. The tobacco has extreme bite. Bite so bad I have never experienced it on any other tobacco. Even when smoked easily and cooly in a filtered pipe, it offended terribly. I could not escape the horrid over powering chemical tasting cherry flavor or harsh bite. I did the only thing I could do that did not involve losing 6 bucks and change. I offered it to my friends to see if maybe I was a bit too harsh on it. My friend Dan agreed with me and after a pipeful gave the bag back to me. I next tried to pawn it off on my friend Matt that just loved Borkum Riff Whiskey so I figured he might actually like it. After a pipe full, he too gave the bag back to me and proceeded to smoke 5 bowls of the Borkum just to get that taste out of his mouth. It sure is a sad day when you must smoke Borkum Riff Whiskey to make anything taste better. I was finally ready just to throw it away as losing friends over 6 bucks was insane even to a tightwad like me when my friend DJ, inquired if he could have a bowl full of that great smelling tobacco in the bag. I gave the bag to him with mixed feelings and was shocked to see him enjoy it with great delight. He enjoyed it so much he asked me for the bag even offering to buy it off of me! I was more than happy to give it to him as I sure was not going to ruin my tongue again. The funny thing is this is actually all he smokes now. I either ruined his tongue or turned him on to his favorite pipe tobacco. I like to think that it was the latter but sadly, I think it just killed his taste buds. In closing, I was rather shocked as I have smoked all the other Smoker?s Pride offering and I must say rather enjoyed them. It really is a shame considering if someone picks this up as their first experience with Smoker?s Pride they will most likely throw it out after a few pipe fulls and never give any Smoker?s Pride offerings a chance or any cheap tobacco a chance again for that matter. Definitely not recommended even though I have one friend that liked it.