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Hey guys. I found a 25-bundle of Nica Rustica by Drew Estate in the "Belly" size (7.5x54) which looks like a long Belicoso with pointed tip (probably explains the name "Belly") for just $75. I've never tried these. Are they good? Are they worth $3 per stick? What do they taste like? What cigars do they taste similar to? How's the construction, draw, smoke output, etc.?

Thanks fellas!
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Your CAD isn't as advanced as mine, then. I'm considering getting two bundles actually.


The rumor I've heard is that supposedly DE treats them with some solution or something that makes them produce a schittload of smoke. I have no way to know if it's true or not, it's just a rumor I've heard.
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I believe it’s mineral oil based (treatment)

I've heard that rumor too. It's also rumored that the whole "they don't age well, smoke them when you get them!" thing might be because the "treatment" eventually evaporates or dissipates off the wrapper, leaving a less-tasty "meh" cigar behind.

But, I have no way to know, they're just rumors I've heard, nothing more.
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I liked them a lot when they were new. Had two escape my hands and fall to the bottom of the humidor. 2-3 years later they were total garbage. I lit both in the same sitting, thinking the first was just a dud. Nope, second was exactly as awful as the first.

Won't be buying those again.

DE bunches their tobacco differently. They use an extra fold or two in the process. This adds an extra air channel, so the cigars draw easy and smoke heavy. Now multiply this by the size/diameter of the cigar. If you were to weigh a DE cigar vs another cigar of similar tobacco and same size, you'd find the DE cigar is a bit lighter because the extra folds take up more space.

As for the mineral oil rumor, I wouldn't put much stock in it.

Tangential question: is an Ewok actually a bear? I realize there is a teddy bear like appearance. However, being in a galaxy far far away on Endor, what are the odds their physiology is actually comparable to Earthbound mammals?

Puddin.......if a $2 cigar doesn’t make Tony’s buy again list.........that’s all you need to know.

Pick up some Avo Synchro's from a b&m and then buy a couple at that other place that's now owned by this place.... Proof...

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Ewoks are when the Star Wars franchise "jumped the shark". Yes, adorable midget bear-people who live in wooden huts in the trees and whose technology is pretty much limited to logs, rope and fire is going to defeat a galactic empire whose tech is decades to hundreds of years beyond current-day real-world USA military tech. Uh-huh. Yes, totally believable.

Yeah, rig up some logs on ropes and swing them to crush their super-advanced laser-armed heavily-armored combat vehicles made with what looked like year 2100+ Earth-equivalent tech. Oooooookay then, riiiiiiight. Suspension of disbelief lost, cannot possibly re-acquire it. I want my ticket money back please!

However, although we didn't know it at the time, the Ewoks thing was actually VERY MINOR suckage compared to the extraordinarily-crappy additional cinematic turds that started coming 16 years after it.
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Saw return of the Jedi a dozen or so times when I was a little kid... My favorite beta tape...

When I was in high school, they came out with the first new one, with the horrible cgi and all... Had zero interest in it and despised the nerd culture around it, so I talked my friends into putting together cheap looking jedi costumes and fashioning terrible light sabres out of plastic bats and flashlights...

We went to the theatre on opening night and messed around with a few news station interviews claiming we'd been there since sunrise and seen every showing since, even leaving some showings early to get to the next showing... This was before internet was common so we didn't know we were trolls... Fresno being the 5th largest city in the state, we got more publicity out of that than we bargained for I think...

Seen it, and yes, love it... Particularly when he interviews the one girl there..

I wasn't old enough at the time to dislike the ewok aspect of the movie. Having learned in later years it was supposed to take place on the wookie home world of Kaashyk (sp?) I became disappointed.

Have also wondered about the emotional scarring of fans if the fuzzy bastids had in fact roasted and eaten everyone

I really enjoy them, but then again, most of my stock is from 3 or 4 years ago. I did win a few of those samplers Joel mentioned and the ones included just weren't as good.

David

Same here.

I got a 5er of the El Brujito from my local and although I gave 4 of them away, I wrote that these were surprisingly good. But, being that I bought them almost 5-1/2 years ago and they were available in only that one size (6x52), things could have changed since then.

? done it and no difference.

Very good after about 6 months of naked cedar aging.