Like most of the cigar smoking public these are very popular cigars. They are not premium hand rolled as you know and do not cost as much as a premium hand rolled cigar.
Personally I think we all started out with machine mades as the premium BOOM didn't really start until the 1990's.
If you enjoy a machine made well you go for it.
As for me, I have not been able to smoke a machine made for over 10 years since someone gave me an H. Uppman.
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With the availability of quality inexpensive hand rolled cigars, I don't bother with MMs. The last MM I smoked was a Connecticut Moniemaker, good CT flavor, but a draw like smoking a tree branch.
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Smoke less, smoke better -- best advice I ever got. I'd rather smoke three great handmade cigars a week than 10 machine mades. I don't think I could smoke a machine made now.
Originally posted by desert22: Every once in awhile I enjoy a Dutch Masters or El Producto machine-made cigar...am I going to go to Hell?
I'd say your already there. At least that's my vision of hell - being forced to smoke Dutch Masters while staring at premium hand rolled cigars just beyond my reach.
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Wow you took me back in time for a minute. My very first cigar was a El Producto. Never smoked one again but that was the one that got me started into what I enjoy now. All hand mades. Go figure.
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Posts: 249 | Location: Queens, NY | Registered: January 10, 2007
My first cigar was a Romeo y Jullietta from Habana. I have never tried a machine made cigar. If you just had to; like if someone was holding a gun to your kids head, what machine made cigar would you recomend?
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I ordered three La Aurora small smokes awhile back, can't even remember what they were called, because it's too cold to sit out too long. Turned out they were machine mades -- Terrrrible.
Originally posted by desert22: Every once in awhile I enjoy a Dutch Masters or El Producto machine-made cigar...am I going to go to Hell?
Smoke what you like. I started on El Productos, I think a big fat one called a Queen, but that was almost forty years ago. I still smoke a MM once in a great while. Started smoking hand mades with Partagas in about 1982. They used to market three packs, and I picked one up when the store was out of the MM brand I was looking for, and that was that.
By the way, I have read where many of the MMs used to use at least a percentage of Cuban short filler, but that dried up in the early sixties and the quality dropped off on those brands. Our ancestors were smoking better MMs than are available now.
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