The Cigar Smoking Week in Review by Tommy Zman
So, my fellow CROMAGS… if you happened to read last weeks little bloggie, yours truly, El Zman of NJ correctly picked the New York Giants and the New England Patriots to win their respective games sending both teams to Indianapolis to meet in the Super Bowl… again. I am truly the master of all prognosticating Polacks and should be held in high praise (just go along with it, you know that I like feeling important.)
Yes, as a Giants fan, I whooped it up with a choice selection of celebratory smokes for several days on end. Right after the game I poured a belt of single malt goodness and fired up an Omar Ortiz Honduran Maduro and holy guacamole that thing is one serious little flavor bomb – dark, oily, well rolled, and bursting with taste from the first draw! This Central American hottie is quickly becoming a real favorite of mine! Other fine sticks of celebration included the Frank Llaneza ’61, the Rocky Patel Edge, and the Fonseca 1907. Pretty damned nice, huh?
Now last week, the Date of January 19th came and went, the date that the FDA stopped taking public feedback on their proposed regulation of the cigar industry. As of this moment, the organization, Cigar Rights of America has collected over 157,000 petitions that have been sent to congress. Now I’ve heard some complaining from people that the number sounds small, but look at it this way – Take two professional football stadiums filled with 80,000 cigar lovers in each, and that’s one hell of a smoke signal if you ask me! The CRA would like to hit the quarter million mark and with all our help, they certainly can. So I urge you all to keep sending your friends, family, neighbors, FaceBook and Twitter followers to cigarrights.org and fill out the simple petition because this is one battle we simply cannot afford to lose.
All that dominates our tv sets these past few weeks are annoying debates amongst politico dumbasses and a speech chock filled with classic political rhetoric. Good God, talk about blowing smoke. Now this is NOT aimed any political party – it’s the general statement that I have been making for over four years since day one of this blog, as it is MY personal opinion (not that of JR’s whatsoever) that ALL lifetime politicians are lying sacks of excrement who all have their own agendas and do everything for their own political gain. While our political view and parties certainly differ, every time I have EVER posted this opinion, we ALL seem to agree. And while some will say that’s a pretty broad brush I’m painting with, I have to believe that there’s a 99.9% accuracy rate in my assessment.
Take one little for instance: all these politicians who support New Jersey’s 88 year old senator, Frank Lautenberg’s crusade against smoking, well, the fact is that we know that so many of these politico jack wagons smoke fine cigars in back rooms and at private functions, living it up with their cronies. We KNOW that they do… yet, in the name of getting votes, they pander to the anti-smoking contingent leaving all of us lovers of the leaf to ask… Et tu, Brute?
Last but not least, the weather is freezing again here in the northeast, making it a frigid hell for us cigar lovers. But just a few days ago the mercury actually hit the low 50’s and I was outside in shorts and a t-shirt (manly, huh?) smoking it up like a banshee, making up for days of jonesing for my Pepin, Punch, and Partagas! I vow to you right here and now that one day I WILL have that luxurious man cave, oh yes… it will be mine.
So that’s it for this week, my peeps, and all I have left to say is “Smoke ‘em Cuz You Gottem.”
Your BOTL in good Standing,
JR Cigars Blog with the Zman
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January 27th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Zman, did you smoke any JR Alternative Edicion Limitada Behikes? And if so, how would you compare them to the JR Alternative Edicion Limitada Montecristo “C” and Edmundo?
Wild Turkey will probably want to know.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
And yes, all politicians suck donkey dong.
January 27th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
When you get to Pepin and Partagas, now you’re talking my language.
January 27th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
I picked up a bundle of the Alt El Behikes. Nice construction, but the first three out of hte bundle have been harsh. I’m going to let ‘em sit in the ‘dor for a few months. I smoked a well-aged JR Ultimate Cabinet last Sunday watching the first football game. It was excellent.
January 27th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Oh, and GO GIANTS! G-Men over the Patriots 20-17.
January 27th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
The G Men are gonna muss up pretty boy Brady’s hair but good!!!!!!
January 27th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
I didn’t know banshees smoked.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
I’ll bet those politicians are smoking Cuban cigars. Even JFK bought a few thousand Cuban cigars right before he placed the embargo on them. Go G-men. I want to see plenty of sacks on Brady.
January 28th, 2012 at 4:02 am
RE: JR Alternative Edicion Limitada Behikes and the JR Alternative Edicion Limitada Montecristo “C” and Edmundo?
Right the Garfiend is!
January 28th, 2012 at 4:11 am
Augie,
Too bad JFK didn’t live long enough to smoke them. Read somewhere that many of the same Congressional anti-smoking crowd (that is still around and take their special longevity meds) made sure to commandeer Kennedy’s stash, and over the years have partaken of these gems as Zman says, “…in the back rooms and at private functions,” (f…in’ hypocrites). Would venture to say that somewhere there exist pics of these pr..ks doing just that.
But never having had one of those Cuban ‘gars, I guess I don’t know what I’m missing.
Speaking of missing – where is bro-of-the-leaf, Senõr Bubba from Florida?
Perhaps I shouldn’t ask since I, too, haven’t posted in a while. Hope all is well with the Bubba.
January 28th, 2012 at 7:52 am
KWV, our politicians are supposed to be our representatives, but once they get to Washington they get seduced into an oligarchy of privilege and power, so that they get to keep doing what they would deny us. I’ve had some good Cubans, but not many. I once got a counterfeit Cuban that smoked like a stick. The person who gave it to me paid a lot for it in the Islands. It was the worst cigar I ever smoked. The best one was from a firefighter who had visited his mother in Cuba, and brought back a box. It was the real deal and damn good. My understanding on the quality of Cuban cigars is that certain factories in Cuba produce better cigars than others. I wouldn’t mind trying some if the embargo is ever lifted.
January 28th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Yeah, you got good Cubans, bad Cubans, and okay Cubans. So many people think Cuban cigars are the ultimate, but to me, they’re just different.
January 30th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Only a JR Ultimate is an Ultimate!!!!
January 30th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Indeed, ‘fiend. And good smokes they are, too.
January 31st, 2012 at 12:37 pm
They certainly are. I had one this weekend. My first ‘gar in about a month. Tasted great.
January 31st, 2012 at 5:03 pm
One of my favorites used to be the Principales in maduro. I think I might still have one in one of the humidors somewhere. Sounds like it’s time to fish it out!
Hey, anyone remember way back when the Principales was called Padron?
February 1st, 2012 at 12:59 pm
I certainly do. And they had a third name, too. Which I can’t recollect. Anyone remember what it was?
Anyhow, I have smoked a ton of them, mostly in Oscuro.
February 1st, 2012 at 5:01 pm
It wasn’t Papayos, was it? LOL! Actually, it would have been whatever the opposite of Papayos was!
February 1st, 2012 at 5:49 pm
No, not Papayos!!LOL!!!
I think it was Patron or Patroon and then they found out that that was an offensive word in some language or culture or some such.
February 1st, 2012 at 11:35 pm
That’s right! It was Patron, then changed to Padron, then to Principales! Whoa, what a little trip down memory lane!
February 2nd, 2012 at 3:29 am
I think it was “Patroon”…by recollection of an ancient catalog.
The “Padron” was one of many points which came to a head when the Hoyo “Estelo Chest” came along; something about Estelo Padron’s signature on the box set (ugly) things in motion, which led to JR discontinuing the Padron brand altogether.
Sad story.
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Sad indeed, WT. Padron makes some pretty good cigars….
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