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Eggman Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 11:28 AM EST
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If this has been done to death, or done before, please feel free to flame me. :)

Think back to the early days of your cigar experience. What was the first full box of smokes you ever bought? As for me, I say with a fair tinge of shame, it was a box of Tinder Box house brand. Yeesh!

Eggman
Tobasco Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 11:48 AM EST
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Well, I dont know if a bundle will count like a box, but my first bundle were some Flor Del Todo's. My first box was Padron Lonsdales.

Mag
Robby Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 11:51 AM EST
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My first box was 25 years ago. As I recall, it was a box of tubed Romeo's. They were excellent. I can still remember smoking them.
Tobasco Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 12:06 PM EST
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Heck Robby! Did you start smoking at 15yrs old? I saw the pic of you & the mrs and you dont look very old! This isnt a rip but a complement. Just curious. How old are you?

Mag
Robby Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 12:46 PM EST
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heh, 45 this September. I'll be 62 when my boy turns 18 God willing :-)
huskey Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 2:30 PM EST
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Macanudo Robust Hyde Park $87
Clark
Slimboli Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 4:06 PM EST
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The original Napa Reserve Canary Island ...

... I started with the BEST!
bigjordo Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 4:10 PM EST
Joined: 11-28-2002
Posts: 154
just bought my first box on here....the solareas blowout that they were havin, hope to have gotten a nice deal
Charlie Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 5:27 PM EST
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First box was a box of Macanudos in 1973 while I was a Navy LTJG....think they cost about 24 bucks at the Navy PX in Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico!

Charlie
Smoker06 Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 6:20 PM EST
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La Aurora Cetros
efm Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 6:21 PM EST
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Posts: 499
It was either a box of La Luna Maduro Fuerte torpedos (very good) or a box of Cohiba Lanceros (Habanos) which were astoundingly good except they rolled too tight.
sherpamills Offline
#12 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 6:59 PM EST
Joined: 01-26-2001
Posts: 147
1st box that i rember was black watch in tubes somewhere in the late sixtys
ribbedturtleneck Offline
#13 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 7:09 PM EST
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Posts: 7
LGC Serie r #4. Not a bad start at all...
SteveS Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Feb 16 2003, 7:57 PM EST
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R&J's ... way too many moons ago
captainfudgie Offline
#15 Posted: Mon, Feb 17 2003, 5:33 AM EST
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Posts: 191
Hoyo de Monterrey Rothschilds Maduro
Mr.Mean Offline
#16 Posted: Mon, Feb 17 2003, 5:38 AM EST
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Punch something or other. For the birth of my nephew LL cool B.
divnmyk Offline
#17 Posted: Mon, Feb 17 2003, 5:52 AM EST
Joined: 06-07-2001
Posts: 461
Te Amo corona maduro's
They were the darkest cigars in the shop, so I figured they had to be good.
mrkmitch Offline
#18 Posted: Mon, Feb 17 2003, 6:39 AM EST
Joined: 11-18-2002
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Didn't anyone start out with machine rolled drug store cigars? Sounds like everyone responding is talking about hand rolled. I wasn't savey, nor capable enough (read $) to buy a box of hand rolled sticks back when I bought my first box. Besides, they were bought just to hand out at a football game. So about 30 of us "enjoyed" my box of HOMEMADE cigars....yes that's right....best 5 for a nickle anywhere (lol). Sorry to admit it, but those were high school hi-jenks days of the 60's.
huttman78 Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 8:41 AM EST
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ok, the 1st bundle i ever bought was la primadora in '96, complete garbage. after that i bought a box fuente short stories (short about 3 smokes) for about $2.50/ stick.
Mr.Mean Offline
#20 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 9:10 AM EST
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The box of Punch I bought I paid $35.00 for. I believe it was a brevas. I suspect it of being a machine made.
CulleyJC52 Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 3:27 PM EST
Joined: 09-25-2002
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I will be first to spill guts, I smoked Garcia Vegas, would buy box of 50 for $22.00. That was four years ago.
Eggman Offline
#22 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 3:47 PM EST
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In response to the earlier post - oh, by no means did I mean to hint that I didn't go through EVERY SINGLE grocery / drug store brand there was...at one point I had a dozen half-empty packages of everything known to man in my kitchen drawer. (Humidify them? What was that?) Garcia Vegas, sure, plus those pipe tobacco ones...a Hav-a-Tampa with the wooden tip - very continental. Even smoked White Owl New Yorkers for awhile, god they were awful, but they were consistently awful and cheap. When the car became unbearable it was fairly painless to toss a ten cent stogie out the window.
turnberry Offline
#23 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 4:12 PM EST
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CAO Brazilia Amazons when they first came out. Man those things can really put out a volume of smoke!
Homebrew Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 4:42 PM EST
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Mine was 2 boxes at once.
A Fuentes Canones Nat. and A Fuentes Dbl. Chateau Nat.
I was in college and got a good tax refund. Bought my first humidor that day as well :-)
As a matter of fact, I still have 1 Canone from that box, almost 8 years ago :-)
hmmmmmm wonder how that one will taste :-)
Let me think............
Later
Homebrew
jdrabinski Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 5:21 PM EST
Joined: 08-16-2002
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First kind-of-box: Cuban Partagas Chicos. Small, but flavorful.

First regular-box: Padron Churchills. Still buy them, all the time.

John
eleltea Offline
#26 Posted: Tue, Feb 18 2003, 6:19 PM EST
Joined: 03-03-2002
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La Gloria Cubana Wavells in maduro. Still counts as the most satisfactory box purchase I ever made in terms of value and enjoyment and yet I haven't bought a second box. Why?
Cigarick Offline
#27 Posted: Wed, Feb 19 2003, 3:13 AM EST
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Those Thompson Dog Rockets don't count, do they? First box of smokable cigars I bought was 5 Vegas. Still casting around and trying five-packs and samplers for the most part...
THL Offline
#28 Posted: Wed, Feb 19 2003, 3:26 AM EST
Joined: 10-22-2002
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Tabantillas Churchill maduro. Every once in a while Tabantillas show up for bid here but not in maduro. If they did I'd buy them again. They're kind of like what you get if you feed your dog Eukanuba Premium.
joelmitre Offline
#29 Posted: Wed, Feb 19 2003, 4:51 AM EST
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I started with the best (dog rocket you can find!)
Big Butt Robustos, nasty!
choner Offline
#30 Posted: Wed, Feb 19 2003, 2:33 PM EST
Joined: 02-04-2003
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I was lucky, my first box was 5 vegas robustos. Smoked like 3 of them the instant I opened the box.

Choner
rayder1 Offline
#31 Posted: Thu, Feb 20 2003, 12:57 AM EST
Joined: 06-02-2002
Posts: 2,226
White Owl "It's a girl" cigars. Tried one, tasted like rolled cigarette tobacco.
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