mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 A guy I know went to India. So I asked him to bring me back some hookah tobacco. What he brought was 4 heavy bags of THIS stuff. He said they mix it with honey and smoke it in hookahs. Anyone have ANY idea about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieces Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 That looks disgusting. Better get yourself lots of honey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashman19 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Hey man, I'll send you a big bag of that stuff. I just gotta go to my backyard with a shovel, and scoop you up some fresh DIRT!! Just playin man, but seriously, most definitely looks like dirt. Make sure to give us a trip report after a session with that stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 gee thanks..you guys are a lot of help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalliwag Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Hey, I'm not saying the shit is dirt, but I'd bet money if you planted seeds in it and watered that you coul grow damn near anything in that shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 does anyoen have anything INFORMATIVE or USEFUL to add to this thread??? :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caramellanne Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 That does look like dirt...I wouldnt smoke it...In fact, it looks like manure actually...Do you have a garden in the back, you should throw that stuff on it, im sure your plants will grow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersianPride Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well if you mix it with honey its going to form a paste of some kind and I don't see how you could smoke it. Maybe take it with you the next time you go to an indian restaurant and ask the owner what the procedure is.....maybe he can read the instructions on the pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitefanatic Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Umm....what does that smell like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 smells like a sweet tobacco. Not flavoured, but sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPR234 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I'd definitely smoke it up as long as it smelled alright. You could probably whip it up with some honey like you said, and load a bowl with it, and use a long poker to poke holes through it into the bowl holes if its too runny. I wanna know how this goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakemonster Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 OK. Ive read about this.... Hookah tobacco made in India is smoked as a paste.... it is ground into a powder like that because part of that powdered tobacco is made into a paste for EATING. Cant remember the name of the stuff now. My understanding is that the stuff is N. Rustica instead of N. Tobacciana, which we here in the west are used to seeing in smoking tobaccos. around a 4th of India's tobacco industry is dedicated to making what you have or something very simular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[LB] Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Mush whats the texture to it? Ill be glad to recieve a sample of it from you and test it. EDIT: nice research lakemonster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 Lake: is it one of these? http://www.indiamart.com/tobacco/#products LB: you really want some of this stuff??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakemonster Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 No. at least I dont think so..... the stuff Im talking about is Paan masala.... a tobacco paste that is used in making a small after dinner snack (some sort of strange small rolled up thing...saw it on TV once) that is served by street vendors in India. However. I'd like to find some of that Gutkha stuff. always wanted to try Betel nut.... stains the teeth real bad tho... Heres a snippet of what I had found last week. taken from the following page : http://www.godfreyphillips.com/tobacco-india_home.asp The non smoking tobacco including chewing tobacco and gutka market, has grown at a rapid rate from almost zero a decade ago to its current position. The market is divided between chewing tobacco, snuff and hookah. The industry is also very regional in character with only two brands having a national presence, Pan Parag and Manikchand. Chewing tobacco and hookah occupy about 25% of the total tobacco grown in India and are consumed internally in the form of chewing, hookah, paste, quiwam, candy and gutka purposes. There are some 400-500 products of pan masala available in the market such as sented supari, aromatic powder, khaini, mishri, mawa, snuff, zarda, cheroot, etc. I'd mix honey and glycerin in if honey alone just doesnt cut it...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalliwag Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I would put that stuff in a coffee grinder first and hit it just a little bit. Then I would mix it up. Then again I may hit it really good with a coffee grinder and mix it in with some really wet shisha and see how it affects the flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioannisds Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I'll try anything once. If you send me some, I would be more than happy to smoke it and post my experience. Or you could just try it yourself, you damn pussy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 uh lake...Kashmir IS flavoured with Betelnut. I believe. Tangiers said the Secret ingredient was Gutha. Didn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 ion: ya are what ya eat! I'm going to take this stuff to thelocal indian market and get soem info. Find iout if im supposed to eat or smoke it. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Guthka is tobacco and betel nuts, Paan is betel nuts. They have similar flavors, but thats where the similarity stops. As a fan of Paan, I can say there is no tobacco in it. Pann Masala contains: betel nuts, catechu and lime (the mineral, not the fruit). I don't care what Wikipedia says. Whatever the translation is, Arabs I know (not that they're experts on India) and cans of the stuff report no tobacco. Now I know my beloved betel nuts are carcinogen, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 so is tobacco. So you don't know what this stuff is either donthert? dang, I had such hopes 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakemonster Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 QUOTE uh lake...Kashmir IS flavoured with Betelnut. I believe. Tangiers said the Secret ingredient was Gutha. Didn't he? Wouldnt know..... I dont remember reading the conversation on it. Not smoked it. IM goofin the name up fo that that food item Im talkin about evidently..... this thing has tobacco in it.. and you ingest it.. not not put between mouth and gum. The stuff probably is Gutkha... aha..... found the stuff. Paan. evidently the word stretches over to what Im talking about. http://www.shobanarayan.com/articles/newsp...es_nyt_paan.htm clip from that link.... THIS is how you eat paan in India: You and your sweetheart go to a favorite restaurant and feed each other delicious food till you are so full you can barely stand. You saunter down the promenade, lulled by the moonlit waves, tropical breeze and twinkling stars. You happen upon a paan wallah, or betel vendor, ringing his bell as he pushes his truck. "Sada or meetha?" he asks — plain or sweet? "Meetha," you reply. He smooths a tender betel leaf. With lightning dexterity, his hands fly over the containers crowding his truck. A little roasted fennel seed, some cloves, cardamom, betel nuts, tobacco paste, coconut flakes and rose paste are all stuffed into the betel leaf, which he folds into a triangle and nails together with a clove. Without a word, you pop it in and chew. The sweet juices burst in your mouth with a tantalizing mix of flavors and textures — the refreshing cardamom, peppery betel leaf, biting cloves, tangy fennel and sweet rose paste. The experience is as seductive as a stolen kiss, as relaxing as an after-dinner cigar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 ion: pm me your addy, i have a baggie of dirt here for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanguineSolitude Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 mushy you should actually send him a bag of dirt. see if he still smokes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 ssssshhhhhhh..... 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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