El Cheapo Smoke of the Day - 2024

[NewGuy]

Well, here I go!

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Sitting in a swanky motel in Valentine, Nebraska - with a $2.00 La Palina Red Label 5.5 x 52. Typically, $10.

Nicaraguan/Dominican with an Ecuador sun grown wrapper.

Puffy rating: and 1/2

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

These Arturo Fuente Especiales are from March 2023. Two-fifty. About five bucks online.

Hanging out in Wall, South Dakota for a few days.

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

A couple of tenskis to add to my El Cheapo stash.
These showed up at $2.34 a piece - but typically $5 everyday online.

Penn Standard Broadleaf Maduro
Medium-Full

Penn Standard Gold Connecticut
Medium

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Baccarat Nicaragua - I stole this one from a good brother in New York - but you can get these tasty sticks at C.I. today for about five bucks.

Dominican, with Nicaraguan filler, Sumatra binder, and Habano wrapper.

Medium

Puffy rating:

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Latitude Zero - a Medium-Full Nicaraguan with an Ecuador Habano wrapper.

This is your typical $5 online budget stick - but you savvy shoppers can score these for much much less.

"a powerful, heady profile that’s layered with complex nuances of nuts, pepper, oak, cream, and caramel. Elegant, extremely well-balanced, and brimming with flavor"

I don't know about all of that, but this one was certainly a decent smoke.

Puffy rating:

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Factory Smokes Sun Grown - Drew Estates owns this budget brand.

Less than $2 ea, most places.

A medium Nicaraguan cigar with Indonesian filler/binder and an undisclosed sun grown wrapper.

I'll give it a 3 and 7/8ths. It's a very worthy El Cheapo stick.