Why Does This NYC Steakhouse Have 90,000 Smoking Pipes?

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• GR

  @GrumpyPantsClub · 18 hours ago (edited) · pinned

  This video idea was given to me by a subscriber named Matt. It was a lot of fun doing the research on this one. Tell me in the comments if Keen&apos;s is a place you would like to visit.<br><br>Don&apos;t forget to join the GrumpyPantsClub and help support the channel.<br><br> Thanks for watching!

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• MU

  @Muuuuu05 · 6 hours ago

  Fascinating.

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• JI

  @Jimbo878 · 5 hours ago

  A very enjoyable presentation about history.<br><br>Here&apos;s one for you, regarding tobacco.<br><br>In 1855, during the battle of Sevastopol, a Zouave (Crimean soldier - modern times within Ukrainian Sovereign territory), had his tobacco pipe smashed by a stray bullet. During that time flintlock rifles were the munitions carried by foot soldiers, they carried a &quot;book&quot; of very thin and fine papers which they &quot;charged&quot; with black powder from flasks and horns, this ordinance was then tamped into the rifle barrel.<br> This &quot;Combatant&quot; with his smashed pipe used one of these papers to make a hand rolled cigarette - and &quot; rolling papers&quot; were born.

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• JA

  @JayG-877-MASH-NOW · 23 hours ago

  Well done 👏. &nbsp; CHEERS

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• WA

  @WatersidePiper · 9 hours ago

  That’s a remarkable piece of history that you have uncovered and presented here. Thank you! How cool would it be if something like that was available to us today?

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• PO

  @PointPleasantPiper · 12 hours ago

  Congratulations on another compelling video. Next trip to NYC i will poke my head in! Thanks.

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• AR

  @armchairpiper · 22 hours ago

  great video, I have eaten at Keens a number of times. i would take the train from Princeton Nj and would meet up with some old neighborhood friends from High school. I even have a clay pipe that I got from there. A little extra trivia, at one-time Keens would order 5000 Clay pipes a year. Ed

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• BR

  @brianquilty687 · 19 hours ago

  Wow !! I&apos;ve heard of Keens before but this was over the top. For me this was one of your best videos.

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• RO

  @ronhardcrackers6969 · 23 hours ago

  Salorman Jack, the first president of the New York Pipe Club and the guy that first made the recipe for Billy Budd once told me he had a pipe there.

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• MA

  @MatthewF-v25 · 21 hours ago

  Great presentation Grumpy! Thanks for the fascinating story

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