Some cheap store bought 5 pack cigars...don't even remember what brand. Not memorable at all.
Got into good cigars many years later, but just once in awhile til late last year when I had one or two a day while vacationing in Cayman.
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Some cheap store bought 5 pack cigars...don't even remember what brand. Not memorable at all.
Got into good cigars many years later, but just once in awhile til late last year when I had one or two a day while vacationing in Cayman.
CAO America Robusto.
Found it in the parking lot outside of a local B&M in the middle of the night. Thought, "What the heck. Might as well!" and smoked that sucker when I got home.
The first cigar that got me hooked (and got me sick) was Arturo Fuente Don Carlos #2.
It was 1965, I was 11.
Jose Edmundo. Looked large but was probably a corona, ~5 x 44-rg as a guess. Made in Jamaica and was pricey at 70c, (Fuente Curly Head was 7/$1.00). I'll always remember the flavor, some of the molasses sweetness to be expected from Jamaica with a mild cross of Honduran, of the period, like Punch. The owner of the store selected it for me.
Used to smoke the colts/captain blacks but never really considered them a "Cigar", first real cigar was a century Sam I bought at the grocery store I worked at. They were sitting in an open bucket covered in dust on the cigarette shelf for a few years un humidified. Worst 5 minutes of my life. Amazed I ever came back to cigars.
That's my kind of bum. Parking lot stogie for the win.Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Ditto on the Don Carlos, first one turned me all kinds of green!Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Just to be clear, it was unsmoked and still in the cellophane!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombstone
Once you start with quality like that well aged "Century Sam" you will be hooked. As you were.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluenoser
That admission may well cost you the top spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
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Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Sure it was... what ever you say buddy.
Dang it!Quote:
Originally Posted by allusred
RP 1990 for me. Father tried coming back into my life after being pretty much absent for 30+yrs. Turns out he is still a DB, but there was one good takeaway.....CIGARS!
Hey buddy! Good to see you here!...I like cigars....Quote:
Originally Posted by Elco69
Hey David! Kinda getting tired of the other place, try to have fun and keep getting the kibosh, maybe you will se me around here more.Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
I ain't skeered (afraid).... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Elco69
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Originally Posted by droy1958
The first cigars I ever had were Swisher Sweets. When I was 13-14, we would smoke them when we floated down the Chattahoochee River in Georgia.
My first premium cigar was a Punch robusto, a little over 20 years ago.
Like many of us, a Swisher or two while I was in the army. Didn't really pick up the hobby until much later.
First real cigars as an Avo XO Intermezzo. Picked it up at the Davidoff store in the Venetian in Vegas, carried it down to the Paris, and burned it with a cocktail in the bar that sits in the middle of the casino area while my wife and sisters in law played slots. Still one of my favorites.