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opelmanta1900 Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:51 PM EST
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what do you do with these things? can't put em in the humidor cuz of the odor, can't smoke em cuz of the taste... I understand it's a good cigar if you go for this sort of thing so I don't have the heart to toss em... what do you do when you get your hands on a couple of these?
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:53 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
what do you do with these things? can't put em in the humidor cuz of the odor, can't smoke em cuz of the taste... I understand it's a good cigar if you go for this sort of thing so I don't have the heart to toss em... what do you do when you get your hands on a couple of these?


...stick them in a tupperware container with something to maintain humidity?
mlangphi Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:53 PM EST
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Not my cup of tea either, head to your B&M and give it to someone. Plenty of people love em, but I with you.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:55 PM EST
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Hank_The_Tank wrote:
...stick them in a tupperware container with something to maintain humidity?

and then throw them in the trash?
opelmanta1900 Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:56 PM EST
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mlangphi wrote:
Not my cup of tea either, head to your B&M and give it to someone. Plenty of people love em, but I with you.


good idea... but don't have a local anymore... also kinda feel like handing out free cigars at a shop that sells the same cigars might be frowned upon...
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:56 PM EST
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Never had one, what sort of odor do they have and what is the taste that makes it so bad? Have a friend that loves these things, but he is also a huge Gurkha fan, so his opinion doesn't mean much to me.
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:57 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
and then throw them in the trash?


If you don't plan on giving them to anyone, then sure...haha
opelmanta1900 Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 4:59 PM EST
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they're basically a campfire flavored acid...
rumraider Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 5:46 PM EST
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Let em breathe. That formaldyhyde odor sucks and ruins the taste too
qmech Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 6:36 PM EST
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If I might be so bold send them to me. I like them in the mornings with my coffee.
Q
PS Better than the trash...
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 6:44 PM EST
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qmech wrote:
If I might be so bold send them to me. I like them in the mornings with my coffee.
Q
PS Better than the trash...


I didn't want to be so bold. Haha
qmech Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 6:48 PM EST
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lol
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qmech Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 6:48 PM EST
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lol
😯😯😯😯😯
frankj1 Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 7:56 PM EST
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do a box split Opel...
ZRX1200 Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 7:58 PM EST
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The smaller ring gauge Kyoto is pretty tolerable if you're not a fire cured tobacco fan. Zip lok baggie is fine if you have a man sized humidor.
cacman Offline
#16 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 8:05 PM EST
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Blunt made from a kfc muwat??
Hey_Ginger Offline
#17 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 9:38 PM EST
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Oh for crying out loud I wish I knew this going in. The reviews I read seemed okay, and now I've got ten of them coming to me on Saturday. I now have a scorching case of buyer's remorse.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#18 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 10:03 PM EST
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don't fret til you get em... good chance you might like them... all kinds of people smoke latakia in a pipe and the kfc's can't be any worse than that...
KingoftheCove Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2016, 10:57 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
what do you do with these things? can't put em in the humidor cuz of the odor, can't smoke em cuz of the taste... I understand it's a good cigar if you go for this sort of thing so I don't have the heart to toss em... what do you do when you get your hands on a couple of these?


ha!
a few weeks back I put in a lowball bid on a fiver of Kyotos, cause I heard/read that they are the best vitola, as noted by Z, and a few people said they were "interesting".

Unfortunately I won the bid.

I smoked one, and almost ditched it in the first 1/2 inch. Then it became tolerable.....barely.
The last 1/3 was mediocre yard gar quality.
So now I have 4, sitting in a spare dry box, waiting for my mooching BIL to show up.
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 3:59 AM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:

So now I have 4, sitting in a spare dry box, waiting for my mooching BIL to show up.


Bahahaha that's awesome!
tamapatom Offline
#21 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 7:10 AM EST
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Try aging them if the campfire effect is too much for you. They do mellow out over time.
dharbolt Offline
#22 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 8:02 AM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
don't fret til you get em... good chance you might like them... all kinds of people smoke latakia in a pipe and the kfc's can't be any worse than that...


I like latakia baccy. KFC are gross imo. Like they forgot the tobacco in the smoke house for a few extra weeks
Mr. Jones Offline
#23 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 8:54 AM EST
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Never heard of them?

What does "kfc" stand for?
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#24 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 9:03 AM EST
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kfc = "Kentucky Fire Cured"
Reference to the origin and flue curing method used for some of the tobaccos in there.
Possibly a play on the chicken fast food chain too. I heard they were going to make a wavy cigar and call it the "Waffle".





Ok, I just made that last part up.
tonygraz Offline
#25 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 10:09 AM EST
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Kentucky Fried Chicken.
ZRX1200 Offline
#26 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 10:43 AM EST
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Kingofthecove, we could do a trade.
KingoftheCove Offline
#27 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 11:34 AM EST
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^^pm sent
hnixon12 Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 2:32 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
what do you do with these things? can't put em in the humidor cuz of the odor, can't smoke em cuz of the taste... I understand it's a good cigar if you go for this sort of thing so I don't have the heart to toss em... what do you do when you get your hands on a couple of these?



send it to me...lovem! next best thing if you dont have beef jerky
hnixon12 Offline
#29 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 2:34 PM EST
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Hey_Ginger wrote:
Oh for crying out loud I wish I knew this going in. The reviews I read seemed okay, and now I've got ten of them coming to me on Saturday. I now have a scorching case of buyer's remorse.


I will take them off your hands, i likes'em
Palama Offline
#30 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2016, 2:39 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
ha!
a few weeks back I put in a lowball bid on a fiver of Kyotos, cause I heard/read that they are the best vitola, as noted by Z, and a few people said they were "interesting".

Unfortunately I won the bid.

I smoked one, and almost ditched it in the first 1/2 inch. Then it became tolerable.....barely.
The last 1/3 was mediocre yard gar quality.
So now I have 4, sitting in a spare dry box, waiting for my mooching BIL to show up.


Hahaha! That's happened to me a few times too...although not necessarily on the KFCs. But, yeah, you throw in a bid at a price you're willing to pay and then have to pay it. d'oh!


qmech Offline
#31 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 6:43 PM EST
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Pair them with coffee, your experience might prove a better one.
Q
KingoftheCove Offline
#32 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 8:12 PM EST
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qmech wrote:
Pair them with coffee, your experience might prove a better one.
Q

I very seriously doubt it................especially considering I was having coffee with it.
Pudding Mittens Offline
#33 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 8:38 PM EST
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Avanti cigar company's "Parodi", "De Nobili" and "Petri" brands, in production for well over 100 years now, are machine-made, but from pure 100% fire-cured TN and KY tobacco (nothing artificial like homogenized leaf sheets, chemicals, and other BS), and are dirt cheap and tasty. They have MUCH more fire-cured flavor than the DE version (which I think I read uses only SOME fire-cured leaf), and they're a tiny fraction of the price.


Just DON'T accidentally get their NAMESAKE cigar, the "Avanti". That one's brushed with an extremely powerful anisette flavoring that people either love or hate. The other brands of theirs that I mentioned are natural, with no flavoring, just pure fire-cured goodness.
Bogeyboy Offline
#34 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 9:21 PM EST
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Mittens,Interesting, won't pay $2 for a Fuente but you like that garbage?
Pudding Mittens Offline
#35 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 9:36 PM EST
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Bogeyboy wrote:
Mittens,Interesting, won't pay $2 for a Fuente but you like that garbage?

Those Avanti products, while not premium cigars, have ACTUAL FLAVOR, and aren't like sucking steam from a kettle! That's how Fuentes taste to me, several of my cigar pals, and quite a lot of other people from what I see online. For us, a high-priced cigar that tastes like nothing would be the "garbage".

People and their palates differ. It's as simple as that.
ZRX1200 Offline
#36 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 10:00 PM EST
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Have you never smoked a sungrown 858 or Hemingway? A Magnum Rosado? Aged Opus? Aged Anejo? WTF is wrong with you?
Pudding Mittens Offline
#37 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 10:08 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Have you never smoked a sungrown 858 or Hemingway? A Magnum Rosado? Aged Opus? Aged Anejo? WTF is wrong with you?

There are lots of people who agree with me about Fuentes, and lots who disagree. It's not a right or wrong thing. Palates simply differ among individuals.

When I was in grade school, they sent us home with an experiment: strips of paper with a chemical on them. We were told to go to all our local relatives and have them press the paper to their tongue, then record whether or not they tasted a bitterness. Some did, and made an 'ick' face, and some had zero reaction and said, 'it's just paper, there's no taste'.

In that case, a certain specific gene causes either the ability, or lack of ability, to taste the bitter chemical. It's just one example of the kind of person-to-person differences that might be at work when different people have different experiences with a certain cigar brand.

If I lack the genes to taste most or all of Fuente's best flavors, and you lack the genes to taste those of another cigar brand, then we can argue all day that the other is crazy, but it'd just be different genetics.

By the way, they don't do that experiment in schools anymore, at least around here. It seems that certain combinations of "taste/no taste" for mom, dad and kid are genetically impossible given how inheriting of genes works, but were nevertheless turning up in the results. Impossible, that is, if "dad" really IS the kid's dad. Ouch. So yeahhhhh, that experiment went bye-bye. Heh-heh.
KingoftheCove Offline
#38 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2017, 10:14 PM EST
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Pudding Mittens wrote:
There are lots of people who agree with me about Fuentes, and lots who disagree. It's not a right or wrong thing. Palates/tastes/preferences simply differ among individuals.



True.
Gotta say though, a well rested WOAM is far from sucking on a tea kettle.
On the other hand, the Cameroon ones do nothing for me.
So, I'm doing my best Frank imitation..........fence straddler.
qmech Offline
#39 Posted: Mon, Jan 2 2017, 1:04 AM EST
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King ....So much for that idea...though I find the KFC to be better with coffee..
Q
gummy jones Offline
#40 Posted: Mon, Jan 2 2017, 9:50 AM EST
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i like them on a summer evening but have had them resting in separate humidor for at least 6 months
Ephanhymer Offline
#41 Posted: Fri, Jan 13 2017, 10:12 PM EST
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Anyone not pleased with the drew estate kfc; sale them to me. I can't get enough of these things now. By far my fav. smoke. It is an acquired taste tho. My first review of these were very unkind
frankj1 Offline
#42 Posted: Fri, Jan 13 2017, 11:25 PM EST
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KingoftheCove wrote:
True.
Gotta say though, a well rested WOAM is far from sucking on a tea kettle.
On the other hand, the Cameroon ones do nothing for me.
So, I'm doing my best Frank imitation..........fence straddler.

never had one
might like them, might not.

does that clarify my position?
KingoftheCove Offline
#43 Posted: Sat, Jan 14 2017, 9:37 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
never had one
might like them, might not.

does that clarify my position?

Perfectly..........like only a genius could....
Transplant Offline
#44 Posted: Sat, Jan 21 2017, 3:54 PM EST
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I've had a few. The cold aroma beats the smoking taste, IMO. Not a bad change of pace smoke though. My advice would be to get one and see what YOU think. This seems to be one of those love or hate smokes.
hnixon12 Offline
#45 Posted: Sun, Jan 22 2017, 8:39 AM EST
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I likes em...next best thing to beef jerky
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#46 Posted: Sun, Jan 22 2017, 9:49 AM EST
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Had one of these last night that I got in my bomb from dharbolt. I have to say that I was shocked at how little flavor there was considering the smell of the cigar. Mostly just earthy/woody with a heavy dose of ash. I was hoping for some crazy flavor to at least say it was interesting but can't even say that. Tasted like a backwoods cigar or some other cheap gas station cigar. I have a buddy that will like them. Haha

I have had worse...
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