Johnny-O Corona Gorda

[forgop]

Originally Posted by Blueface

Well, I would personally care to know if Cuban or not as that is what they are purported to be and that is the product I am expecting. Would you buy boxes of Cubans, risk shipment to your home, and not care what was in it? If they were supposed to be "who cares", that would be different.

As it relates to how they get to Collins v. cigars in your mailbox, two vastly different concepts here that can't be related.
One involves a box or two of cigars in a discrete package.
Have you ever seen a bundle of tobacco? Like to see how that will fit in a mailbox and just how dumb one expects our Homeland department to be.

I've smoked 3-4 O's. In my opinion, they are cuban. You know that distinct smell you get when you open a box of habanos? These have the same smell in my opinion and I don't know of anything that provides the same smell.

Aside from that, you have to be willing to understand that you feel like it's a good cigar at the price you paid. You do that whether it's from Cuba, Nicaragua, the DR, etc, so I'm sure those who've enjoyed them don't reall care where they come from. Well, at least aside from those who smoke something from Cuba just to say they're smoking a Cuban. Carrying on about whether the cigar is of lesser value just because it's not Cuban is dumb IMO.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Blueface

I think they are about as Cuban as Al Pacino playing Tony Montana.

Chu want to go to war, Mang? Chu better watch it, cockaroach.

[mosesbotbol]

The smokers from Cuba have a strong preference for fresh cigars, so I can understand how a Cuban cigar roller/producer in Miami would make cigars to be smoked immediately.

I love them fresh and bitey, but when smoking them, they are more casual smoke. A fresh cigar is not the event, but rather a compliment to it.

[NCRadioMan]

Carlos, I have had a number of JO's and none of them made me think Cuban. Frankly, I don't think they are and can't be convinced unless I travel with the baccy from Cuba to the states to the roller to my hand. And that won't happen so JO's are off my radar entirely as I think they are total waste of money. It seems they are shrouded in mystery as nobody seems to know the real story on these and that bothers me. I have heard more than a couple of stories. Too many red flags.

They make me think Dominican. And not a good Dominican.

[E.J.]

I guess I don't agree with the analogy as there is an actual financial worth to a diamond vs a CZ...

I would not care of my diamond came from Africa or Australia...placing more worth on one than the other, assuming they graded the same. If you sold me an Australian diamond and said it was from Africa, I would not feel cheated....

...and I did know you loved Padron's...

[quantim0]

Where does one find some? My googling is turning up no results.

[JDTexan]

I recently smoked a "fresh" cazadores of his and it was one of the best cigars this year, hands down. It had more Cuban esque style to it than many of the mass produced cigars coming out of Cuba currently. I am not a fan of all of his but the cazadores rocked.