it's a decent average cigar. Has a great draw. Not bad at all for $2!

24132413 wrote:

Smoke what you like and prepare to be judged, that's what I always say...

opelmanta1900 wrote:

Rah!
Stop it!
I’m pretty sure you have never met a cigar you didn’t like!
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KingoftheCove wrote:

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There used to be a single-location, family-owned independent pizza place in my area. They made excellent pizza for decades.

Then, for whatever reason, they decided they could dumb down the quality of the product and use schitt ingredients, call the product the same name and put it in the same boxes and simply not say anything about the radical quality change.

Wow, what a great plan, reducing costs of raw materials and increasing margin! And if you call it the same name and use the same packaging, you can "coast" on the great reputation of the brand's prior quality and none of the rube customers will ever notice!

Except they did. Shortly after, everyone noticed the product now sucked and told all their friends, the brand's reputation was ruined, nobody bought the product anymore and they went out of business.

B-b-but it had the same name and packaging!!!!
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Pudding Mittens wrote:

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There used to be a single-location, family-owned independent pizza place in my area. They made excellent pizza for decades.

Then, for whatever reason, they decided they could dumb down the quality of the product and use schitt ingredients, call the product the same name and put it in the same boxes and simply not say anything about the radical quality change.

Wow, what a great plan, reducing costs of raw materials and increasing margin! And if you call it the same name and use the same packaging, you can "coast" on the great reputation of the brand's prior quality and none of the rube customers will ever notice!

Except they did. Shortly after, everyone noticed the product now sucked and told all their friends, the brand's reputation was ruined, nobody bought the product anymore and they went out of business.

B-b-but it had the same name and packaging!!!!
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Pudding Mittens wrote:

Agree with what errbody is saying. I used to smoke the sh*t outta Padillas. The original Hybrid, Miami, and Habano were some of my favorite smokes. I remember reading something about Ernesto screwing somrebody over or something and had to find another factory to produce his cigars. I guess Padilla has become another CI/C-Bid bargain brand like Gurkha and Torano.

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