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Soap Bar vs Quality Hash

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AussieJoe

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Here in Aus back in the 70s 80s hash was of high quality from a few different countries.I remember reading about 'soap bar' on forums way back then .It seemed the UK had a lot of this floating around the traps.What is this soap bar ...something someone makes up in the kitchen with all sorts of crap? Was it something made on a commercial scale and imported ...and was there any hash present in this so called product.Would like to hear of peoples experiences with this.Did you get high from it even .Thanks for your input
 
AussieJoe said:
Here in Aus back in the 70s 80s hash was of high quality from a few different countries.I remember reading about 'soap bar' on forums way back then .It seemed the UK had a lot of this floating around the traps.What is this soap bar ...something someone makes up in the kitchen with all sorts of crap? Was it something made on a commercial scale and imported ...and was there any hash present in this so called product.Would like to hear of peoples experiences with this.Did you get high from it even .Thanks for your input
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I remember seeing a doco years ago with soap bar in the UK and it varied from basically just shitty Hash to product with all sorts of dangerous/toxic fillers. I seem to recall pieces of plastic being used in some of it. It certainly had a bad reputation from users in that doco but out of desperation/price they smoked it anyway.
 
Gold Seal. Couldn’t cut it with a bandsaw. Well I guess plastic bags and old records didn’t end up in landfill. So, there is that.
 
LoginNotSecure said:
Gold Seal. Couldn’t cut it with a bandsaw. Well I guess plastic bags and old records didn’t end up in landfill. So, there is that.
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Eh? Gold seal (squidgy black) was quality hash.

As for soapbar, it varied enormously in quality. I believe the name came about because it came packaged in 9oz bars that resembled a bar of soap. At first it was a standard low to medium grade hash. But as time went on, it became more and more adulterated. I once pulled out a piece of crunched up plastic bag that when opened out was the size of my hand. Towards the end of the soapbar days the effects were little more than placebo.
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Eh? Gold seal (squidgy black) was quality hash.

As for soapbar, it varied enormously in quality. I believe the name came about because it came packaged in 9oz bars that resembled a bar of soap. At first it was a standard low to medium grade hash. But as time went on, it became more and more adulterated. I once pulled out a piece of crunched up plastic bag that when opened out was the size of my hand. Towards the end of the soapbar days the effects were little more than placebo.
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Gold seal got the hmv around these parts. (Everyone’s had a go)
 
I am not from UK but I remember that "Comercial" hash, as we called it, was so prevalent during those years..
It came as 250 grams bricks for dirt cheap.
It was often adulterated with henna ( that thing arabic women use to paint their hands with).
They also put other stuff as honey and gum Arabic (sp?) In it
Plastic and goat shit were common place, too.
Can't believe we paid for that and even worse, smoked it.
 
AussieJoe said:
Here in Aus back in the 70s 80s hash was of high quality from a few different countries.I remember reading about 'soap bar' on forums way back then .It seemed the UK had a lot of this floating around the traps.What is this soap bar ...something someone makes up in the kitchen with all sorts of crap? Was it something made on a commercial scale and imported ...and was there any hash present in this so called product.Would like to hear of peoples experiences with this.Did you get high from it even .Thanks for your input
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LINK: UK SOAPBAR
 
There was a bit of old rubber tyre or something similar in the worst teenth or eighth of hash I ever brought. It must have been soapbar, although I didnt know that term at the time. THe thick black acrid smoke coming off it when trying to heat in to crumble it wasn't a great sign to say the least.

I suppose the only consolation is that I didn't buy a large amount of that crap. Also found out at that time that the local dealer did not take too kindly to complaints.

He didn't say anything, but just had a look on him. Fortunately nothing was ever that bad again.

All the gold seal / red seal type stuff I ever tried smelled and tasted beautiful, It was always perfect.
 
When I was on my travels (think i posted this before?) I was with some german fellas who (unlike me) put their 50kg of dope in a cement mixer/bl;nder type thing along with motor oil, camel shit and pieces of old tyres - they didn't bother taking the plastic wrappers of the kg blocks either then repress. Bulked it up to about 75kg. Pointless in my eyes as the dope was pretty good and back then I would sell for 2.2k a KG where as they were getting far less. ....Reminisces 'the hash years' Mmmmm the stories i could tell
 
God @blondin they sound like criminal masterminds!

Anyone remember actually trying to smoke a joing made with TACK as was called the shit round our way? The smoke coming off it would resemble that of a tire fire and all the hot rocks falling off the end, god help you if you were wearing nylon etc with all those hot rocks.

Soap bars cheap, but so's my clothes, they gotta be cos of all these fuckin holes!
 
Señor Moreno said:
I am not from UK but I remember that "Comercial" hash, as we called it, was so prevalent during those years..
It came as 250 grams bricks for dirt cheap.
It was often adulterated with henna ( that thing arabic women use to paint their hands with).
They also put other stuff as honey and gum Arabic (sp?) In it
Plastic and goat shit were common place, too.
Can't believe we paid for that and even worse, smoked it.
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Henna was the standard cut in Red Lebanese as well. I cut my teeth on that stuff.

Anyone remember double zero and sputnik? They were fuckin nice.
 
Soap bar total garbage was rock hard dark brown coloured with a lighter sandy like colour inside , mixed with plastic, boot polish , henna and a heap of others shit to bulk it out, you had to cremate it before you could mix it n crumble it , the smoke that came off said hash was thick black chemical smoke , made your lungs feel tight making you cough and sound like a 80 year old in need of oxygen.
Gave users a slight high usually combined with a headache from the small amount of real hash mixed with all the Plastic and fillers , well what did we expect 😳
Nasty adulterated shit , im so glad we have high quality weed and hash here in the UK now, I haven't seem soap bar for a good ten years. And so be it :D
 
This shit sounds fucking disgusting. Reminds me of some of the really shitty hash we got here back in the 90's though our stuff wasent nearly as bad. Thankfully now with legal weed there's no worries about getting quality hash thank fuck.
 
chinup said:
pretty sure hash composed primarily of vinyl was a right of passage for british teens of my generation.

would i smoke it again? no. does thinking about it make me nostalgic? yes.
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It also makes me nostalgic, I absolutely can feel you.
Somebody said that childhood is the actual motherland of a person.
That fucking soap bar was our childhood, cannabis wise.
While I am fully aware of how bad that shit was, I can't help but think about it in a kind of romantic way.
 
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