Cornell & Diehl Cross Eyed Cricket

This has to be one of the top novelty tobaccos of all time. Cross-Eyed Cricket is so unique that most folks will probably either love it or hate it. I had many folks comment on the aroma (all found it to be pleasant), and the fruity, sweet taste was enjoyable, but I'm not sure I'd smoke this very often. I'd definitely call this one an aromatic, although is has an english quality about it too.

This is quality tobacco (a little on the dry side), and the burn is what you'd expect from high-quality tobacco. If your adventurous I'd say try this one for the novelty factor, if for no other reason, but as others have stated, you might want to try one of your least used pipes, since the flavor will taint the taste for a few smokes.

This one is a highly flavored tobacco that is fun to smoke just becasue it is so weird . It's on my top five list of bizarre tobaccos . Be careful as the flavor wil taint a pipe for many smokes afterwards . I'd try it in a cob first if you're just curious , and dedicate a pipe to it if you decide you like it .

this is an interesting tobacco, an aromatic that thinks it's an english blend. it has a pleasant room aroma, without the syrupy sweet taste that so many experienced smokers find objectionable. this would be an ideal tobacco for a smoker whose wife loathes the aroma of heavy latakia blends. might let you bring your pipe back in the house and avoid marital discord! like all the C&D blends i have tried, this one has good packing and burn characteristics. the taste i would describe as a very mild english blend that would be a good cross-over from aromatics. when i first tried cross-eyed cricket, i was very impressed. then i found other blends i liked even better, which prevents me from scoring it higher. don't automatically pass this one by because it doesn't have a 4-star rating. for many smokers, with varied tastes and intolerant wives, this could be a real winner. 3 stars.

This is a crossover blend much like C&D’s Brigadier, combining a flavoring with a Latakia blend. The blend is based on unsweetened Black Cavendish, with Turkish, Latakia, and Perique. Its rum punch flavoring smells nearly as strong as Brigadier’s in the tin, only less fruity--if the topping was applied lightly, I sure wouldn't want to smoke anything that got a full dose of it! The combination of flavors can be jarring, as the rum punch flavoring fights it out with the Latakia. But this blend’s flavoring is more restrained than Brigadier and it has much less punch in terms of nicotine. The room aroma is a notch lighter as well, though there’s still a good bit of Latakia in the aroma. It actually works pretty well as an aromatic English. I would recommend this to someone who likes full flavored aromatics and would like to try a Latakia blend, though I don’t know if hard-core English smokers would care for this.