What's It Like?

Cigar-20109325
Cigar-20109325 Posts: 7 ✭
in Cigar 101
Since I have never smoked a cigar before, and hoping to do so soon, I was wondering what your first experience smoking a cigar was like? Thanks

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  • Cigar-20109325
    Cigar-20109325 Posts: 7 ✭
    Ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2018
    I was going to post a Monty Python skit (candid photography) but decided to take it easy on you.

    My first was a Swisher Sweet 35 years ago or so after a beer festival.  Not memorable.

    There's nuanced flavors in a good cigar that you may not pick up until you develop your palate.  Hard to explain.
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  • BKDog
    BKDog Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cigar-20109325 said:
    Since I have never smoked a cigar before, and hoping to do so soon, I was wondering what your first experience smoking a cigar was like? Thanks

    Honestly, it depends on the cigar to an extent. If you're here looking for a premium and the reviews are decent as well as the staff recommendation being solid, you're good to go. But, if you are anything like me and you are a PFC in the Army and had WAY TOO MANY beers and enter the gas station with your buddies, grab the BIGGEST damn stogie in the world (we're talking the size of a child's arm) and smoke it on your walk back to the barracks -you might not fare well.

    I still remember the gut retching...
    "Love is a dung heap, Betty and I am but a c.o.c.k. that climbs upon it to crow."
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2018
    Broseph?

    Unleash the Kraken!  Wait for the punchline at the end.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I&t=8s
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only way to find out is to smoke one.


    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just remember what happens when you smoke cigars...


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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    0patience said:
    Only way to find out is to smoke one.


    User tip, don't smoke the cigar band, remove it first.  The glue starts to melt and it gets easier to remove as the ash burns down toward the band, removing it too early can risk tearing the wrapper.
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another user tip, bigger is not always better and it's not a race. I learned that by powering through the LFD digger in an hour fifteen
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Agreed, and the smaller vitolas can be stronger and more flavorful.
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  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is the same male/female from the, "is this right" post.  Thus confirming the troll status. 
    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • Markwell
    Markwell Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    Just remember what happens when you smoke cigars...


    Ya only turn into a jackazz if ya leave the band on lol
    “Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” – George Burns
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2018
    Gray4lines said:
    1. Buy Tatuaje Fausto 

    2. Inhale deep; that's what the pros do.

    3. Thank me later

    D*ckturd status attained. Congrats! 
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2018
    It's like being plastered in Zona Norte, but safer, less dangerous, and hopefully cleaner. 
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ^^^^^^ googled that one. Too funny.
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  • ForMud
    ForMud Posts: 2,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Patrickbrick said:
    ^^^^^^ googled that one. Too funny.
    Me too.....Google image is not your friend on this. 
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cigar-20109325 said:
    Since I have never smoked a cigar before, and hoping to do so soon, I was wondering what your first experience smoking a cigar was like? Thanks
    In case your questions have been serious and legitimate, let me explain some of the behavior of my cohorts here, assuming we haven't run you off with our weird sense of humor.

    As you may have gathered, we get a lot of phony questions by those who like to jerk our chain, trolls seeking amusement at others expense.  

    What you've asked is an impossibility.  

    1.  You've asked us to describe a rainbow to Helen Keller.  As humorously noted above, the only way to truly answer your question is to experience it for yourself.  Start mild, and slow, and DON'T inhale.  

    2.  There is a difference between cellophane and plastic, cellophane breathes.  

    3.  Don't overhandle, lick, or deep throat the cigar at the cigar store, unless you're ready to pay for it. 

    Hope this helps.
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  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,137 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It sucks. I hate cigars 😂
  • YankeeMan
    YankeeMan Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's the second best feeling in the world!
  • CAcigarguy007
    CAcigarguy007 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    You know when you had a big meal and you have to take a dump real bad, so you race home and jump on the pot and "squirt, explosion, squirt"? It's like the feeling right after that. Super relaxing. "Aaahhhhggggg"  B) That's what a good cigar is like.

    A bad one is the same scenario except it's 100 degrees, you're in a smelly port o potty, you're sweating, your hemorrhoids are burning, and you realize there is no more toilet paper. "Arrrrrrggghhh!!!!" >:) That is what a bad cigar is like.  

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