Bigger Cigars?

[allusred]

Me. I did like and a fair portion of cigars I smoked were Churchills.
A little explanation when I started smoking daily the Corona was a big cigar
With Perfecto and Corona by far the most popular cigar sizes.Nineteen fifty-fifty one.
Of course smoked some that I think were Toro sized. Panatelas and then the Churchills.
Smoked and liked the big old Churhills a lot.Ring Gauges were in the forties.with I think a 47 - 48, maybe 49 the largest.
Can't recall any cigar being referred to as a Robusto.
Then, maybe in the 1980s or '90s started see larger ring gauge cigars more and more often.
Seemed(to me) freakishly over sized but gradually started smoking larger Ring Gauge cigars more often.
Have come pretty much full circle and now I'm right back where I stated.
Most often smoking cigars in the five inch to six,six and a half length.
Sometimes a four inch cigar and sometimes a seven - seven and a half incher.
But the ring size stays for the most part under 50.
Some cigars I like a lot aren't made in sizes smaller than 52-54 or even 56.
So I wind up smoking those, usually in the Toro size.
I'll guess most who started smoking cigars in the Nineteen Eighties- Ninties or later see fifty Ring Gauge smokes as the "norm"
much as those who started smoking a bit farther back in time saw the Forty ring sizes as the usual.


Yup, some FOGs do tend to run on.

[FidelCastro]

I love Churchills and my grandfather taught me a little trick about 50 years ago. He'd cut the cigar in half and essentially had two cigars the size of a robusto where he'd smoke half and then use one of those cigar stems of the same RG and use for the other half at a later time. I've got 2 of those stems and they work great.

[droy1958]

Me. I did like and a fair portion of cigars I smoked were Churchills.
A little explanation when I started smoking daily the Corona was a big cigar
With Perfecto and Corona by far the most popular cigar sizes.Nineteen fifty-fifty one.
Of course smoked some that I think were Toro sized. Panatelas and then the Churchills.
Smoked and liked the big old Churhills a lot.Ring Gauges were in the forties.with I think a 47 - 48, maybe 49 the largest.
Can't recall any cigar being referred to as a Robusto.
Then, maybe in the 1980s or '90s started see larger ring gauge cigars more and more often.
Seemed(to me) freakishly over sized but gradually started smoking larger Ring Gauge cigars more often.
Have come pretty much full circle and now I'm right back where I stated.
Most often smoking cigars in the five inch to six,six and a half length.
Sometimes a four inch cigar and sometimes a seven - seven and a half incher.
But the ring size stays for the most part under 50.
Some cigars I like a lot aren't made in sizes smaller than 52-54 or even 56.
So I wind up smoking those, usually in the Toro size.
I'll guess most who started smoking cigars in the Nineteen Eighties- Ninties or later see fifty Ring Gauge smokes as the "norm"
much as those who started smoking a bit farther back in time saw the Forty ring sizes as the usual.


Yup, some FOGs do tend to run on.

You're kind of running on a bit there Bob. You must be a FOG.......