Padron Fumas

[Jeffro600]

Where the heck are you guys getting your Padron Fumas from? After my "inexpensive smoke" thread, i decided i would like to at least try one and after hitting every cigar store from here to denver and back, i came home empty handed....well not totally, got a box of their 2000s But i cant find anywhere online that sells them indivually or in 5 packs and id really hate to have to buy a whole box and find out i dont like em. Can someone point me in a direction to where i can pick up a few of them?

 

[Gonz]

You newbies (I'm not far from ya) are killing me!


Try here dammit!


Then learn to search the internet or use the search function here! :angry2:

 

[gatorsmg]

The Fumas might very well be the best cheap cigar I've ever had. They use the scraps from their other lines including the PANs and PAMs. Then they use their "3rd rate" wrappers on them so they're basically a short filler mutt of all their lines.

If you do a search here on CP you'll find the Fumas discussed a few times and with a little more detail if you're interested.

Enjoy

 

[outlawsp]

I talked to Padron Monday about a order we placed for 1000 fuma sticks,(only got 100)(and yes, they are gone) and he said that, that cigar was a "special cigar" to celibrate the 40 anniversary.
He also made it sound like it is now out of production.
But Jorge said he would chat about it more at RTDA????

Let ya know what is found out.

 

[Castaway]

I tried a Fuma recently and it reminded me of the AF Curley Head Deluxe Maderoes that I used to smoke. Anyone else compare the two?

 

[Mephiston]

Just buy a box when you find them there cheep and dont disapoint. And theres no other cigar in the world that cheep except maybe a couple cubans that i would say that about.

 

[symyn]

Just bought a box of these from the site Gonz listed, I figure they will be great for people that don't know too much about cigars, but want to get into smoking.

 

[ricmac25]

I talked to Padron Monday about a order we placed for 1000 fuma sticks,(only got 100)(and yes, they are gone) and he said that, that cigar was a "special cigar" to celibrate the 40 anniversary.
He also made it sound like it is now out of production.
But George said he would chat about it more at RTDA????

Let ya know what is found out.

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I've never heard that. In fact, what I have heard and seen with my own two eyes is that this cigar is made mostly for the locals in Little Havana. And yes I have been to Padron and met a few of the Padrons, including the old man. This is the cigar that started it all for them in the 60's. I don't see how that would be a special 40th anniversary cigar. They are sold in cafeterias all throughout Little Havana for 80 cents a piece. These come in a yellow cardboard bundle not in the fancier wooden boxes I've sometimes seen them in online, but they are still called fumas.

A few excerpts from the article I am referring to:

SS: Well I know they're definitely the most popular cigar in Little Havana. I see everyone smoking them. And they smoke these Padrons. They don't smoke the ones that most of us that go into our retailers buy. How are these different?

Jorge: Yeah, sure. Well this is a different cigar. This is a short fill cigar...

JP: We call it our "battle cigar." It's something that is not expensive, we only produce enough to supply the market here.

SS: But I'm assuming that the short filler is really just the trimmings from your premiums. So it's very good tobacco?

Jorge: Excellent tobacco.

SS: It's from the clippings when they were shortening them and when they were trimming the leaves for the wrappers and all that. Why don't you sell these elsewhere, I see them nowhere but here?

JP: We haven't wanted to abandon this market. It wouldn't be fair to the longtime customers that we have in this market. We haven't wanted to take away from this because we would have to stop selling in here to sell it.

SS: Because you only have so much?

Jorge: Right. Our production, remember, is not a huge production and has not increased that significantly over the last couple of years. So whatever is available is only available for here. In a lot of cases it's his burden, but in a way he's proud of it because it's the people have brought him to where he is. Obviously there are certain cigars that we sell in this market that could be sold at a higher price in other markets and we don't do it. We will not take away from here to sell at a higher price somewhere else.

SS: It was these people here, that really gave you your start.

JP: That's the cross that he carries; that he will support these people here, he has to. One of the problems that we've had is that people from other states are coming here, buying these cigars and reselling them.

Jorge: And it's a problem because we had to write a letter to all the little supermarkets and cafeterias that we sell to here, we have salesmen that visit them, and we had to tell them please limit sales, try not to sell a whole box to anybody because those boxes are then being resold. What happens is somebody comes in, one of these people from out of state, buys four boxes of cigars; that's four boxes that they're taking away from a poor old Cuban man that is used to walking everyday to the grocery store and buying his four cigars, and he gets there and there's no cigars.

You can read the rest here.