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This is a call to smokers who appreciated cigars in the mid-90s
Starting with google, this was the AI response:
In the mid-90s, to get through college, I worked at a tobacco shop in the mall. Those of you of my vintage know what I'm talking about: Indoor mall shoppe with figurines on lit glass shelves up front, sweet pipe tobacco filling the air and humidor in the back.
Myself already 10-years familiar with cigarettes and my dad's pipe, it was my intro to cigars and I experimented heartily (before the interwebs) and stopped with a cigar that just had a plain brown Jose Gener label. I had no idea who he was until decades later!
Searching vintage cigar band images came up empty. But I see now that the time I was introduced was a boom period... I'm afraid they were just a "season special" for the times.
After being fired from the job (not for pilfering or stealing: if you actually read this far, I would enjoy adding a lot of my personal experience with political/military conspiracy to the thread from that time period, but I need the eyes/ears of smokers older than me who are actually reading the post - so you have to ask),
I 've had a couple cigars since then, but never anything like those Jose Gener plain band...
So decades later and I'm dabbling in cigars again.
This is what I understand about cigar composition:
Recognizing there have been a LOT of changes in 30 years (the most of which are probably my own sense of taste), there has to be a way to connect the dots to the best recent incarnation of that cigar.
What was the blend that Jose did for those cigars that I enjoyed 30 years ago as an inexperienced smoker?
Anyone?
Starting with google, this was the AI response:
According to information available, the "CigarPass" forum is widely considered the longest-surviving and most active online cigar forum, with a large community discussing cigars and related topics for many years, including discussions about aging and long-lasting cigars.
...so I joined for this post.In the mid-90s, to get through college, I worked at a tobacco shop in the mall. Those of you of my vintage know what I'm talking about: Indoor mall shoppe with figurines on lit glass shelves up front, sweet pipe tobacco filling the air and humidor in the back.
Myself already 10-years familiar with cigarettes and my dad's pipe, it was my intro to cigars and I experimented heartily (before the interwebs) and stopped with a cigar that just had a plain brown Jose Gener label. I had no idea who he was until decades later!
Searching vintage cigar band images came up empty. But I see now that the time I was introduced was a boom period... I'm afraid they were just a "season special" for the times.
After being fired from the job (not for pilfering or stealing: if you actually read this far, I would enjoy adding a lot of my personal experience with political/military conspiracy to the thread from that time period, but I need the eyes/ears of smokers older than me who are actually reading the post - so you have to ask),
I 've had a couple cigars since then, but never anything like those Jose Gener plain band...
So decades later and I'm dabbling in cigars again.
This is what I understand about cigar composition:
Wrappers - we all know
Binders - the cosmetically-lesser versions of wrappers
Fillers: Ligero, Viso, Seco, and Volad
Recognizing there have been a LOT of changes in 30 years (the most of which are probably my own sense of taste), there has to be a way to connect the dots to the best recent incarnation of that cigar.
What was the blend that Jose did for those cigars that I enjoyed 30 years ago as an inexperienced smoker?
Anyone?
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