Wow, it's been a long time, and you know what? I just haven't had that much time for a cigar. I tried to smoke them during Spring/Summer softball games with my company in NW Indiana, but other than the usual La Floridita and JR Alt. Edicion Limitada cigars that I have been telling you about over the last couple of years, I have not many opportunities to smoke a good cheap stogie. Except for smoking one on the way to school (I'm working on my Masters degree at Indiana Tech), I haven't even smoked oneIn fact, my three humidors were running dangerously low. For a couple of weeks I consolidated everything and fit the cigars into my two small humidors (total capacity about 50-60 sticks). So when I went to Detroit to spend Christmas with my family, I managed to stop by the JR Cigar store the day after Christmas. There I smoked a Partagas toro that they had as the weekly special for $3.00. I know that is above my $2/cigar limit for this blog, but I gotta tell you, it was good and cheap compared to what the typical box price is for these cigars. Anyways I picked up a bundle of 25 Consuegra No. 9 maduro cigars for $27. At just over a $1 per cigar, this is probably the first cigar that most cigar lovers think of when asked for what is considered to be a bargain. A couple of months ago, my neighbor Russ gave me a bag full of cheap "flavored cigars" that he had picked up at a trade show. I was eager to see what was in the bag. Primetime, Blunts, and Dutch Masters Collection or something like that. Oh man, these were awful. I smoked one, and it smelled like a pineapple-scented marker. And it tasted like one too. I tossed it and immediately brought the bag to one of my lab technicians where I work. He smokes Middleton's all the time, and even he couldn't smoke it! Ew! Just say to no to really bad machine made cigars.
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