Originally posted by Docbarry: You know what I like to smoke (now that I earn a good salary) but I have to agree, to each his own.
Absolutely, but...if this were the Gourmet Food Aficionado website instead of Cigar Aficionado, would we be discussing buffalo wing flavored potato chips?
I'll concede that, for what they are, Acid is a quality product and probably the best of the genre. But only in the most academic terms can it be called a cigar. It doesn't smell like burning tobacco, it doesn't taste like burning tobacco...about the only thing it has in common with one of your Opus X is that it is made of tobacco and shaped like a cigar.
If you walk into the French Laundry in the middle of dinner service and start raving about the great hamburger you had at McDonald's for lunch, you'd expect a little ridicule. And if you sing the praises of Acids to guys here, you can expect a little good-natured ribbing just the same.
To each his own? Of course. But if you truly love cigars -- and therefore tobacco -- then why would you want to smoke a cigar that masks the actual tobacco?
Originally posted by Gespinoza1: Mmmmmmm...buffalo wing flavored potato chips.
Don't get me wrong...I like me some buffalo kettle cooked chips myself. I'm just making analogies here knowing full well that potato chip connoisseurs would call me out on it if I joined the forums at www.potatochipsnobs.com
I was in a cigar shop one day and detected a smell that was like bathroom spray (a bathroom was very near). Two guys were sitting in the corner of the room and one was smoking an Acid.
Knock yourself out.
Posts: 426 | Location: Norman, OK | Registered: November 23, 2002
Some poor soul actually admits to smoking a flavored cigar, and we have one poster invoking divine intervention on his behalf.
Purhaps that might go something like this.."Oh holiest of hosts, please ignore the heathen prayers of the false brothers of the leaf. Spare us from the foul smoke from the adulturators of cigars. May the fruits of their labors burn unevenly in the hell fire. May the bright light of the good palate shine down upon them, so that they may repent of their evil ways. May the infused one be banished from our midst, and only the holiest of leaf ever to cross our lips."
Posts: 613 | Location: Alabama | Registered: November 09, 2006
This is one of the most comical threads I have read thru in a long time.
Doc, u had me laughing out loud with your comment:
"Smelled like Aqua Velva, tasted like a dog turd (what I imagine a dog turd would taste like as I have never actually tasted a dog turd) and lasted all of one puff."
I have had one flavored cigar, a CAO. I HATED, ..... yep... HATED it. Terrifically bad.
On the other hand, if I'm in a bind I do enjoy a Hav A Tampa Jewel Vanilla. To each his own.
Bear
PS- As for ACID... NO COMMENT from me.
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Originally posted by Gespinoza1: Mmmmmmm...buffalo wing flavored potato chips.
Don't get me wrong...I like me some buffalo kettle cooked chips myself. I'm just making analogies here knowing full well that potato chip connoisseurs would call me out on it if I joined the forums at www.potatochipsnobs.com
Flavored (in any way) cigars are like soy beef for vegetarians. That said, if you like smoking ACID - do so by all means, as long as I don't have to smell it
I remember when I tried Natural by Drew Estate - I picked up the cigar at the local B&M without knowing anything about it. I figured if it's called "Natural" it's not flavored. Man, what a big mistake! If you want to make someone puke from smoking a cigar, Natural is the best choice in my book; the only cigar I've smoked to make me sick instantly.
I've tried the Naturals, which are not really flavored (so they say) like Acid. The Naturals use Turkish tobacco and Perique from St. James Parish and other exotic tobaccos along with Nicaraguan to give them a unique flavor. It's all moot because in the end I just could not smoke any of them more than an inch or so. The wrappers tasted like way overly sweetened,dry chocolate and, everything else aside, were not appropriate to a cigar.
Posts: 307 | Location: Paris | Registered: November 19, 2003
Originally posted by Docbarry:. . . Although I do not smoke infused cigars, back when I was in college the cigar for me was the Wolf Bros Rum Crook which was dipped in rum. . . .
Man, Doc, this brings back memories. On one of my first jobs -- working for a truck farm cooperative in Ohio in about 1967-68 -- the boss and a lot of the guys smoked Crooks and Parodis. I was a Parodi fan, myself. Today I would probably consider them nasty. But that was then and I was a lot cooler then than I am now.
Posts: 307 | Location: Paris | Registered: November 19, 2003
This thread seems like a lot of you go beyond preference, and are flavor-phobics.. To not enjoy them is one thing, but to act like you're scared of them, and over exagerrate your dislike ("I Almost puked!") is ridiculous. I personally do not smoke flavoreds anymore, but I DID start smoking cigars with Kahluas and CAO flavours.. Now i prefer the pure taste of well-blended tobaccos. That being said, I don't think I would turn down a kahlua if someone handed one to me today, but I probably wouldn't buy one myself.
People smoke what they like, let them. I have a friend at work that LOVES Victor Sinclair bohemians, where as they taste like soggy swisher sweets to me.. To each his own.
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To not enjoy them is one thing, but to act like you're scared of them, and over exagerrate your dislike ("I Almost puked!") is ridiculous.
It may seem that way, but it's actually true. I wasn't referring to the taste of the tobacco in "Natural" but to the artificially sweetened tip of the cigar. Thanks to this, I have no idea how the cigar itself tasted.
As far as flavored cigars - it makes no sence to me (other than the obvious reason - to extend the market reach to people who otherwise wouldn't smoke cigars). I wouldn't eat cigar-flavored chocolate, why would I smoke chocolate-flavored cigar?
Again, if you have 'em smoke 'em, but not around me. The artificial flavors in your cigar would prevent the rest of us (me) from enjoying a real stick.
Originally posted by atlrus: Again, if you have 'em smoke 'em, but not around me. The artificial flavors in your cigar would prevent the rest of us (me) from enjoying a real stick.
Exactly! That's what a lot of people forget. How am I supposed to smell my cigar-flavored cigar if the idiot next to me is puffing on a stick that smells like someone lit a case of Drakkar Noir on fire.
