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Richard K
10-06-2012, 13:23
Just got back from touring western New York, central and western Pennsylvania.
While on the Canadian side of Niagra I spotted a cigar shop.
Since there was no place to park I dropped my wife off to get me a single, small Cuban Macanuto while I drove around the block. She came back with a Macanuto Cohiba for $67.00 US.
It was good but it was NOT $67 good. Lesson learned.
Troublco
10-06-2012, 13:35
Yeah, that sucks. I get Cubans sometimes, but always at Overseas airports. Way cheaper.
funkfool
10-06-2012, 13:40
Whoa!
I've had a few good Cubans in my day... I remember in Seoul getting a Cohiba and a glass of The MacCallan for about 60,000 KRW...
Couldn't manage to bring myself to submit it on the expense account...
Richard K
10-06-2012, 13:47
In the past I've gotten them on cruise ships but never that expensive. Should have gone to the duty-free shop.
I used to spend a couple months a year in South and Central America fighting the drug war. Always had a nice Montecristo, R&J or Punch to burn. Back then you could get a box of Turbos or Churchills for $75. If I wanted to slum I would get a box of Cohiba #4s.
Add in a 4 litre bottle of Cuervo for $20 and you had a party.
Ahh the good old bad days.
kidicarus13
10-06-2012, 13:51
Cubans are way overrated. If they were legal in the States they would be rated much lower. But to each his/her own.
At least you paid that much for something that is reasonably difficult to come across at home. We made the mistake of ordering drinks at a club in Vegas. 2 rum and coke doubles, 1 vodka redbull, and 1 water was $73. That club sucked too.
You got suckered at a tourist shop. I've never paid over $20 for Cohibas, R&Js, or Churchills. Cases are less than $400.
funkfool
10-06-2012, 14:20
We were at the Intercontinental (http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/seoha?cm_mmc=mdpr-_-GoogleMapsKR-_-ic-_-seoha)- A beer was 12,000 KRW.
I used to spend a couple months a year in South and Central America fighting the drug war. Always had a nice Montecristo, R&J or Punch to burn. Back then you could get a box of Turbos or Churchills for $75. If I wanted to slum I would get a box of Cohiba #4s.
Add in a 4 litre bottle of Cuervo for $20 and you had a party.
Ahh the good old bad days.
Wow . . . combining the world's best cigars with arguably one of the world's worst rotgut mixto "tequilas" blows my mind. I'm guessing you were in your early twenties when you perpetrated this act?
Wow . . . combining the world's best cigars with arguably one of the world's worst rotgut mixto "tequilas" blows my mind. I'm guessing you were in your early twenties when you perpetrated this act?
Hoser once told me a story about how he would hollow out Cohiba's and fill them with Swisher Sweets tobacco.
Goodburbon
10-06-2012, 14:41
Wow . . . combining the world's best cigars with arguably one of the world's worst rotgut mixto "tequilas" blows my mind. I'm guessing you were in your early twenties when you perpetrated this act?
You've obviously never had K&B brand Tequila.[Puke]
Makes cuervo seem like top shelf.
Never buy Cuban cigars unless you know the source. If you want Cubans I have a few places to get them. The Cubans do make some good cigars but you need to know what you are buying.
So whats a good budget cigar? A cigar that you would consider smokable but no more?
Its probably been ten years since I had a cigar. Bad influences yall are!
So whats a good budget cigar? A cigar that you would consider smokable but no more?
Its probably been ten years since I had a cigar. Bad influences yall are!
What do you consider budget?
What do you consider budget?
$5-7
Keep in mind that just because it's made in Cuba doesn't make it a "Cuban cigar". I've been told by my cigar shop that there's more fake "Cubans" made in Cuba than anywhere else. As in, there's real Cohibas and many bootleg Cohibas. There's places on the 'net where you can buy the real things, but they're pricey, and who the hell knows what you're really getting? I'm perfectly happy with Dominicans or others myself, my tastes aren't that discriminating. I prefer A. Fuentes.
I also highly recommend Edwards Pipe & Tobacco on Broadway in Englewood. Great guys and great selection, fair pricing too. The Fuente Cubanitos I smoke are $22.50/can there, I've seen 'em well over $30 in other shops.
Keep in mind that just because it's made in Cuba doesn't make it a "Cuban cigar". I've been told by my cigar shop that there's more fake "Cubans" made in Cuba than anywhere else. As in, there's real Cohibas and many bootleg Cohibas.
Cohiba (Esplendido), Monte Cristo (#2), and Romeo y Julieta (Churchill) are the three most faked cigars in the world (all of which are 7x50 in size or close to it...why fake a little one?!). The only place I'd trust buying a "real" Cohiba is at the Partagas factory in Habana, where they are rolled. Anywhere else, including a certified "Habanos" store entails a significant chance you are getting a fake.
There are other brands rolled in the same factory that are very good but not as frequently faked and are therefore far less risky.
When you do get a good one, a real one, it is the closest thing I've found to religion....and that's coming from a devout born-again atheist.
Cubans are way overrated. If they were legal in the States they would be rated much lower. But to each his/her own.
+1 Yeah.....what he said!
kidicarus13
10-06-2012, 18:12
+1 Yeah.....what he said!
By the sound of things I may have smoked a fake ... Twice!
Zundfolge
10-06-2012, 18:14
I used to work with a gentleman that smoked cigars all his life. At the time I knew him he was in his early 80s and this was in the late 1980s.
One day the subject of Cuban cigars came up and he told us that he spent quite a bit of time in Havana ... before the fall to Castro*. He told us that the Cuban cigars you get today (that "today" being almost 30 years ago) are crap compared to the ones you'd get in the 40s and 50s and that among many of Castro's crimes against humanity, the destruction of the Cuban cigar industry needed to be counted among them.
Communists just don't make stuff as well as capitalists.
*he told many stories of his time in Cuba ... most of which are best not told in mixed company ;)
Cohiba (Esplendido), Monte Cristo (#2), and Romeo y Julieta (Churchill) are the three most faked cigars in the world (all of which are 7x50 in size or close to it...why fake a little one?!). The only place I'd trust buying a "real" Cohiba is at the Partagas factory in Habana, where they are rolled. Anywhere else, including a certified "Habanos" store entails a significant chance you are getting a fake.
There are other brands rolled in the same factory that are very good but not as frequently faked and are therefore far less risky.
When you do get a good one, a real one, it is the closest thing I've found to religion....and that's coming from a devout born-again atheist.
I'd love to try a REAL one if the opportunity came along, but I'm just not going to search all over and go to great expense for one. But if something came up with positive assurances of its authenticity, I'd pony up a reasonable price.
$5-7
I would look for something from Padron or Olivia. Either brand make great cigars in that price range. There is a Edwards shop in FC also.
I'd love to try a REAL one if the opportunity came along, but I'm just not going to search all over and go to great expense for one. But if something came up with positive assurances of its authenticity, I'd pony up a reasonable price.
If you shoot out at BLGC I could meet you sometime and bring along a couple of smokes.
Cubans are way overrated. If they were legal in the States they would be rated much lower. But to each his/her own.
Amen to this shit. When I was younger I smoked a Cuban while drinking some $5000 dollar bottle of conyak (sp) . And to be honest I would have been happier with a Marlboro red and a bottle of Jack.
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