Legal Cubans....

You know, despite our crappy gun laws, I really love that I can go get a cuban at the corner store. Or I can go to a nice cigar shop, where there are entire rooms filled from floor to ceiling with cubans... sorry now I'm just rubbing it in ;)

I am rather fond of the Romeo y Julietta cigars. One of those with a glass of neat 16yo lagavulin awaits me in the very near future :D

The_Guide :cool:
 
I think we should steer this thread away from Politics (Jerry's rule) and back to cigars.

Montecristo #2 :thumbup::thumbup:

So, Hammie, where are ya?
 
Several years ago when I was still in high school, a friend of mine purchased an inexpensive box of cigars for me while vacationing in Cuba.

Being a non smoker (and having no clue how to properly smoke a cigar) the experience was basically lost on me. I haven't smoked a cigar since.
 
An english pub, a pint of guinness, and a cohiba robusto. A perfect moment.

An easy chair on the balcony, a snifter of cognac, and a romeo and juliet churchill. Another perfect moment.

Open fire at the campsite, Swisher Sweets, and cheap port from 7/11. Not quite perfect but definitely easier to achieve than the other two.
 
I thought the English were cracking down on smoking in pubs. You don't really smoke Swisher Sewers, do ya? there's a multitude of really good cheap smokes out there that aren't made of paper!

feynslowblade said:
An english pub, a pint of guinness, and a cohiba robusto. A perfect moment.

An easy chair on the balcony, a snifter of cognac, and a romeo and juliet churchill. Another perfect moment.

Open fire at the campsite, Swisher Sweets, and cheap port from 7/11. Not quite perfect but definitely easier to achieve than the other two.
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Enjoy those Cubans. I'll just have to keep smoking my Padrons, Don Pepin Garcias, Ashtons, etc., since I'm not getting out of the country anytime soon.
 
The_Guide said:
You know, despite our crappy gun laws, I really love that I can go get a cuban at the corner store. Or I can go to a nice cigar shop, where there are entire rooms filled from floor to ceiling with cubans... sorry now I'm just rubbing it in ;)

I am rather fond of the Romeo y Julietta cigars. One of those with a glass of neat 16yo lagavulin awaits me in the very near future :D

The_Guide :cool:
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G19G26 said:
I thought the English were cracking down on smoking in pubs. You don't really smoke Swisher Sewers, do ya? there's a multitude of really good cheap smokes out there that aren't made of paper!
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Yes sadly we cannot smoke cigars in the Pub anymore:(

However I love a good cigar and for me cigars mean I dress for our local like I am climbing Everest....I am nicely wrapped up and smoking a good cigar with a pint and a chaser "outside".:cool:

It improves your "taste buds" and whilst Cuban cigars are a bit beyond my reach now....I enjoy a good Equador Dutch Cigar as my regular smoke :thumbup:
 
feynslowblade said:
An english pub, a pint of guinness, and a cohiba robusto. A perfect moment.

An easy chair on the balcony, a snifter of cognac, and a romeo and juliet churchill. Another perfect moment.

Open fire at the campsite, Swisher Sweets, and cheap port from 7/11. Not quite perfect but definitely easier to achieve than the other two.
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Cracks me up every time someone mentions 7/11 and alcohol :) In MD you cant buy alcohol in any store other than a designated 'alcohol' reseller. no 7/11, grocery stores or gas stations (this one is stupid in other states, LOL)
 
Dark Nemesis said:
Cracks me up every time someone mentions 7/11 and alcohol :) In MD you cant buy alcohol in any store other than a designated 'alcohol' reseller. no 7/11, grocery stores or gas stations (this one is stupid in other states, LOL)
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Same situation here in Canada, and truth be told I kind of prefer it this way.
 
D-Ranger said:
Yes, they most certainly are!! However, Dominicans are so called 'wet cigars' so don't buy 'm if they haven't been properly kept in a humidor.
Continuing to supply the US market was (among other considerations, I'm sure...), when Fidel took over, the foremost reason why many native Cuban cigar people went to the Dominican Republic to keep on doing what they had been doing all of their lives: making great smokes out of purely natural materials. The conditions in the Dominican Republic actually are a bit better for growing the different kinds of tobacco to produce the raw material for cigars, not to mention the obvious ease of getting to the right agricultural supplies in the amounts that are needed.
Though the Dominicans seem to have concentrated on making milder cigars that would appeal to a larger public (so sizes are at the very least comparable and in any case more constant), the matter of taste stays a personal one. If I may offer a suggestion: try a few of a size that you like and go from there. And if you are in need of personal advice, ask your retailer. They've smoked them all, believe me :D

I'm into cigars, can you tell? :)

D-R

(Hmmm, all of this wetted the appetite...I think I'm going to fire up the laptop and take it to the bibliotheque :p)
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DR, I may tap you for more info on this subject in the coming months....Seems when my Grandfather died he left me a few hundred acres of prime Dominican farmland that is currently in tobacco cultivation:eek: Seems like I'll be able to become the Busse cigar Baron:D And I have a friend who owns a cigar bar down in Florida that'll probably enjoy hearing about this too! Still working through the legal stuff to do the property transfer. All I know is that it's in some sweet countryside, the ocean is warm, the beaches nice, and the living cheap:D Maybe turn it into the 'Hog Country Club', it's cheap to fly there from the USA & Canada:thumbup:
 
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We're 18 04 N and 63 03 W

Not cold at all here...
 
Hey Hammy...I don't know the coordinates, but if you end up in Miami, I'll share a nice meal witcha...and maybe an Esplendido. :thumbup:

Hit me via email if that's the case, and I'll shoot you my number.

Oh...and I have a legal cuban, too. She's great! Cooks her butt off, cleans well, brings home a good paycheck, and right now, she's incubating the half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican fruit of my loins. I love my wife. :D
 
I haven't been back to england in a few years so folks may be right that one cannot smoke in pubs anymore. Alas, another pleasure driven out of existence.

As for Swisher Sweets, well that 7/11 which sold the cheap port did not have a humidor or a big selection of cigars. Beggars and those who forget to pack adequately cannot be choosers.
 
Definitely can't smoke in pubs any more here, it's as illegal as strapping on that mistress! Same in any enclosed public place.

I like to take my occasional cigar and flask of Glenmorangie up on a hill somewhere, when the weathers suitable. Currently got a box of Romeo y Julietas that I'm working on...
 
resinguy said:
Dutch or French side?
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Dutch.

Sonesta Maho.

We're about 1/4 mile from the airport...

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Will try to get pics of the dorks who let the departing plane exhaust blow them down the beach... despite the sign that says "SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH" can occur. Stories of people blinded and at least one with sand embedded in his chest...
 
I'mGatMan! said:
Hey Hammy...I don't know the coordinates, but if you end up in Miami, I'll share a nice meal witcha...and maybe an Esplendido. :thumbup:

Hit me via email if that's the case, and I'll shoot you my number.

Oh...and I have a legal cuban, too. She's great! Cooks her butt off, cleans well, brings home a good paycheck, and right now, she's incubating the half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican fruit of my loins. I love my wife. :D
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Another Ricky Ricardo to join the Hog Trough in years to come eh?:D 14th and Espanola is all I gotta say to that:thumbup:
 
1Tracker said:
Another Ricky Ricardo to join the Hog Trough in years to come eh?:D 14th and Espanola is all I gotta say to that:thumbup:
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Actually, an Isabella Sofia. ;)

But yeh...she'll see Española Way and Lincoln Road soon enough, as well as the Grove. :thumbup:
 
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