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It was not my intention to write a post today. Busy getting ready for friends coming over for corned beef and cabbage tonight, that sort of thing. Then my wife sent me to the convenience store to buy rye bread, and the man in front of me at the checkout was buying - so help me, I'm not making this up - a pineapple flavored cigar.
This is not about the fact that I'm not a smoker. If it were, the point would be that the man was buying a cigar. But the point is not that the man was buying a cigar. The point is the man was buying A FRIGGIN' PINEAPPLE FLAVORED CIGAR!
My curiosity was now aroused: what started someone thinking how great it would be if the taste of cigar tobacco were combined with the taste of pineapple? Was this some adult version of the bored kids at cook outs who think it would be a great idea to combine Coca-Cola and coleslaw, or was there more to it than that?
Once home, Google led me to a couple of on-line cigar community bulletin boards. On one, the pineapple smoking experience was described thus: "a dazzling mélange of artificial pineapple, burning rubber, stale urine and 11 year old Tahitian vanilla assaulted my senses and left them bruised, battered and befuddled in a clump on the floor." ( http://www.cigartrends.com/viewtopic.php?t=63 ) A posting in the other offered this: "[The cigar manufacturer] has to flavor their cigars because they use such a low grade tobacco. You're basically puffing on stems, paper, and sometimes woodchips...Why not just eat a piece of chocolate?" ( http://forums.cigaraficionado.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6346086/m/231105614 )
Reading the experts, I felt positively smug enjoying the chocolate-covered raspberry ring gels I'd bought along with the rye bread.
Added Note 1: A couple of posts ago I wrote about one of my students, the one whose creativity in overcoming cramped exam conditions left me fascinated and just a bit envious. I recently received an e-mail from her. A project she entered into a lighting design competition won her second place and $1500. How about that?
Added Note 2: Encouraged by the positive e-mails I've received from kind readers, I've added the ability topost responses and comments here. Your thoughts have always been welcome; hopefully this will make sharing them a little easier.
6 comments:
I love corn beef and cabbage lol last night i made corn beef, rice, and fried dumpling it was great! pineapple huh? lol I'm Stace from
Hi ben,
thanks for coming by my journal and wishing me well
i had to laugh at the pineapple cigar. doesnt sound too appealing to me.
corned beef and cabbage sounds so good. we opted for mcdonalds this year as my husband isnt a big fan, lol
I like your journal. I will have to add you to my alerts
hope that you will stop by again
emily
Well, the only way I would smoke a pineapple flavored cigar is if I was having a pina colada! lol lol lol
Thanks for stopping by my photo blog and leaving a link back to yours, I'm off to read more about you!
Kimberleigh
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Hi Ben, I'm glad you decided to open the comment section. :-) I truly enjoy coming and reading what your journal. I can't imagine how a pineapple would improve upon a cigar and had to laugh at the review left.
Monica
Hi Ben:
Just expanding on the journals I read and I came across your from Emily. I don't know a thing about cigars but a pineapple one sounds horrible!!!!!
Kara :)
Well first off I am not a smoker, but my friend has a box of pineapple cigars in his garage and everytime we go over there they break them out and smoke them. My hubby thinks they are great and so does everyone else that smokes them.
Michelle
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