McClelland M-40 Rum Toddy

I'm old enough to remember my dads smoking Sir Walter Raleigh in a nice oval tin, and thinking that was really neato. Had a leather pouch and a cheap pipe rack by his easy chair. Of course i remember My Three Sons on B&W TV with "dad" smoking a pipe. Lots of men smoked pipes and they would buy Kaywoodies, Yellowbowl, and other drugstore pipes, some with filters, and "drug store" tobacco. Drank Folgers coffee from a percolator coffee maker. There wer neigbourhoods and everybody went to church Sunday morning in our "go to church" suit. I went through a phase of "discovering" English mixtures and couldn't imagine smoking that nasty aromatic stuff in my Castellos and Savinellis. Got tired of the whole yuppy thing and quit. A new pipe store opened up recently and i wandered in and bought a corncob pipe, a box of matches and some bulk aromatic tobacco. Guy tells me it is McClelland Rum Toddy M-40. Smells great, like rum, and smokes smooth and tasty and doesn't bite my tongue. Maybe i'm just getting old, but this takes me back to simpler times and life was fun. The room note is definitely aromatic, but not overpowering like Capt Black, lights easily and smokes smooth with not "goop" at the bottom of my cob. So for less than a Jackson, i'm smoking again and loving it. My fave pipe is the Country Gentleman from Missouri Meerschaum ($11.50) and this great tobacco for those of you with a memory wehn we had atomic bomb drills in school. It only comes in bulk so you don't have to buy a lot of it to get a good try. Mary McNeil of McClelland is sensitive to nicotine like i am so her mixtures won't ake you head off like some of the stronger tobaccos, like the original Three Nuns. I've added town Topic to my mixtures (maple flavour) and think i hae finally found a recipe for smoking bliss.