one of my smallest items of expenditure is Rizla Blues. Or it should be. I’ve noticed prices creeping up month by month, to the point where i found myself paying 69pence for a packet the other day. This is still just 40 sheets of gummed paper, right? You can get 10 packets for £1 on the Walworth Road, a supermarket will charge 22p a pack. Newsagents have begun to take the piss. It’s got so I’d rather do without than be ripped off. In the city it’s understandable that you should pay extra for the convenience of having somewhere on the corner, but wholesale these things must cost less than the 10p i referred to earlier. Enough already!
Rizla Blues are the king of papers. there are good alternatives, “smoking” from spain are pretty good. but rizla is the real deal, the original (a 500 year history!) and the best.
The Rizla tradition has a humble beginning that started in 1532, when a Frenchman named Pierre de Lacroix began making paper. As the legend goes, one rainy day in the French city of Angoulême, Pierre de Lacroix was inspired to begin the production of rolling papers when he traded a rolling paper for a bottle of fine champagne and realized their potential market.
The first Rizla Blues were produced in 1910. The centenary is almost upon us.
