lol yeah ^ agree with this...although the Afghan Black I get right now is quite good, it lights on the 2nd or 3rd time (a match head size piece), however it doesn't burn very white...
But it is definitely not gold seal which I've had before (I want it again!)...still quite potent though, and tastes beautiful.
This stuff is quite hard if it's in your jacket pocket, but as soon as you start rolling a stick of it for your jay, just keep it in your palm for like 10 seconds or so and it's malleable as fuck!
Sounds like it could be stale my friend...if it really does just need a lil heat to soften it...I always say as long as it doesn't smoke when you heat it and crumbles easily, it's worth smoking.
I've had some nice "Dunya" from the Rif Mountains, which was really quite hard and brittle and flaked more than crumbled when you used your fingernail - but had a beautiful sativa high that I've not had from any other kind of hash since I first had kief (npt had all these mental hashes they have these days yet).