Foreign Objects In Tin Tobacco

[Strandsbeachlocal]

Decided to have a pipe full of Seattle Pipe Club Mississippi River today and found a little something extra in the tobacco. Reached out to Sutliff and got told it happens so go talk to the store who sold it, not our problem.

Decided to start this thread just to see how common this experience is. So post your foreign objects here.

 

[jvnshr]

Lucky you, you have just found the tobacco candy.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Wonder what it is?

 

[Strandsbeachlocal]

Wonder what it is?

It’s some sort of plastic disk? Seems cut at some point so it might be a pre processing object that backpacked a ride on the tobacco.

 

[warren]

Decided to start this thread just to see how common this experience is. So post your foreign objects here.

I toss 'em, don't photo them. Doesn't happen often but, such is certainly not rare.

 

[anotherbob]

I think my favorite has been a tobacco leaf. As in a whole crumbled up piece of perique that I saved. It was a whole leaf with barely any damage. Since it would be wrong to smoke it I consider it a foreign object.
The thing is as long as you don't try to smoke that thing it shouldn't cause you any harm or ruin the tobacco in any way.
When I worked in kitchens it was amazing the things you'd find. Once found a gorgeous tree frog that got a new home with one of my co workers. Found a green spider with a spiral on it's belly that was very beautiful. In fact showed it to everyone at work and even the oh no bugs are gross and I hate spiders crowd got all wow and ahh over it.

 

[woodsroad]

I found a Frenchman.
He sounded pretty foreign.

 

[Streeper541]

I once ordered my hashbrowns Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Diced, Peppered, Capped, and Topped... not on top of a live cockroach mind you, but that's how they came. ?

 

[Strandsbeachlocal]

I found a Frenchman.
He sounded pretty foreign.

Sounds like a Louisiana purchase.

 

[edger]

I once found a feather in some tin or another. It didn’t taste good.

 

[renfield]

Little bits of what looked to be binding twine.

I like rope tobaccos, just not that kind.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I once ordered my hashbrowns Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Diced, Peppered, Capped, and Topped... not on top of a live cockroach mind you, but that's how they came. ?View attachment 122653

Waffle House on Valentine's Day? My man, I knew I liked your style.

 

[North of the Border Piper]

Wow, bad attitude of the manufacturer. I think I will not buy their stuff anymore. Thanks for posting.

 

[lraisch]

Several parts of my cube cut burley blend which apparently had legs. Amazingly they were exactly the same color as the tobacco and almost invisible in my humidor.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

Decided to have a pipe full of Seattle Pipe Club Mississippi River today and found a little something extra in the tobacco. Reached out to Sutliff and got told it happens so go talk to the store who sold it, not our problem.

Decided to start this thread just to see how common this experience is. So post your

Wow, bad attitude of the manufacturer. I think I will not buy their stuff anymore. Thanks for posting.

I guess the question is, from the manufacturers point of view - did the hitchhiker come from a sealed tin of their product or did it come from a bulk bag weighed out at a tobacconists?

If it came from a sealed tin then I would agree, that is bad for them to say “yeh, not really our problem!” If it came from a weighed out bag I think they could reasonably say “Who knows what the tobacconist was doing with the open 5kg bag before they bagged you up 500g? They could have been munching on Werther’s Originals, telling corny jokes over it for all we know!”

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

Decided to have a pipe full of Seattle Pipe Club Mississippi River today and found a little something extra in the tobacco. Reached out to Sutliff and got told it happens so go talk to the store who sold it, not our problem.

Decided to start this thread just to see how common this experience is. So post your foreign objects here. View attachment 122641View attachment 122642View attachment 122643

Personally, I’ve never come across anything except some twigs and stalks on occasions. I’d be interested to hear what others have found though.

 

[karam]

I haven’t found anything odd but I recall someone here found some rope used to bind tobacco leaves in a tin.

 

[Ahi Ka]

@condorlover1 found some of these in an old tin of ennerdale if I remember rightly.

 

[brandaves]

I found an entire intact wolf spider (dead of coarse) in a can of Grizzly chewing tobacco once. Scared the life out of me. It was right on top, first thing I saw when I opened the can.

 

[Strandsbeachlocal]

Guess I should clarify this was a 2oz tin that was jarred after open. That’s a great point about bulk @Franco Pipenbeans.