Picked one of each of these the other day and I'm trying the sungrown tonight

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"That's the life, being a fireman. It sure beats being a ballplayer. I'd rather be a fireman.'' Ted Williams

Picked up a cross sampler of Nicks Sticks at a Perdomo event and yes, great smoke for the price...even scored a PerdomoT-shirt. The Cuban Bullets I tried were underwhelming.

Had the Maduro. I'm with joey and Hays. Pretty one dimensional. But not bad for the price. And mine exploded on me after I got past the band. But I guess with budget sticks there will tend to be a few "duds" in the bunch.

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Guns don't kill people......daddies with pretty daughters do.

Burnt the Connecticut last night. Completely forgettable, flavorless,bland, and boring. Burnt half the maduro tonight and threw the rest away. It was going along fairly crummy until the middle, when it suddenly burnt sideways. At which point the wife said: "That stinks", I said "Gack" and out the door it went. Actually had to eat a peppermint. These are fifty cent cigars for four bucks. Gotta do better than this.

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Unmitigated risk aversion is the new Puritanism; complete with witch hunts funny outfits and humorless preachers thundering doom. The Deity is Safety; Satan is a Lawyer; but the object is the same: to suck the life out of life and tell you how to live it.

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Burnt the Connecticut last night. Completely forgettable, flavorless,bland, and boring. Burnt half the maduro tonight and threw the rest away. It was going along fairly crummy until the middle, when it suddenly burnt sideways. At which point the wife said: "That stinks", I said "Gack" and out the door it went. Actually had to eat a peppermint. These are fifty cent cigars for four bucks. Gotta do better than this.

I couldn't have said it better. I was given a Connecticut and after about 6-7 puffs it tasted like smoking a zip lock bag. It had an awful acidic, almost plastic taste to it.

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Smoking a cigar from the wrong end may result in a bad experience.