Taste buds are funny things

[sounds7]

I wonder if anyone else has had this experience. I started out the evening with a very nice blend by G.L. Pease called Abington and it was a thoroughly enjoyable smoke. However as I was lounging in the aftermath and enjoying my Koi fish pond i asked my son to go to the tobacco cellar and bring me a random jar of something. He returned with a Comptons blend called "Balkan Mixture" I fired it up in the very same pipe which is something I normally do not do. I was having a lazy moment and didn't want to bother with getting a new pipe etc. But the funniest thing happened as a result. The flavor that hit me from this second smoke was simply amazing! This taste was one of the most enjoyable pipe experiences I have had in quite some time. I don't recall the "Balkan Mixture being that extremely good before. I got to thinking about taste buds and some experiences I have had with wine and certain foods and how you drink a certain wine with different dishes. Cheese always makes my Chardonnay taste even better. Beer and mixed nuts is another example. Could what I experienced this evening with the two tobacco blends be this same thing? I personally think so. I am sure the opposite can happen as well if the wrong tobacco were to follow the first smoke. My son has magic hands. I shall have to get him to go fetch again in the future.

[Mad Hatter]

Yes it happens, both ways.

[RJpuffs]

It might have been the ghost of the previous bowlful ya smoked in that pipe that accented the second bowlful. A mediocre baccy smoked in a well-ghosted pipe by a stronger blend can result in a great (or weird) smoke.