Practical joke on a cigar aficionado wannabe at work.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:08 pm
I am thinking about playing a joke on a guy at work who thinks he has a special pallet when it comes to cigars. The guy even goes as far as to claim that he is a "supertaster." He smokes mostly junk, and I mean some dog rockets of the worst kind, and claims that he loves them... so much that he stockpiled about 500, $2 dollar cigars in the event that the economy collapses, in the hopes that he could trade his junky cigars for gasoline down the road. The guy spends hours taking notes and writing in a jornal about his crappy cigars, like he is ready to join the halfwheel crew. I read his notes and its tough for me to hold back the laughter....he tastes raisins, nutmeg, cashews, and all kinds of stuff that I don't taste. He always gives me a rating out of 5 stars, and he gives most of his sticks a 4 or 4.5 out of 5. I asked him what a 5 is, and he can't aswer that, mainly becasue he has never smoked a 5. He probably never will either.... especially when his price point is about $4 max.
Anyways, he gives me a stick every now and then, and I smoke them, like I do with all gifted cigars (smoking all gifted cigars is just good cigar ettiquette), and I grin and bear it with all of the sticks he gives me, and I rarely say much back about them, except for a thanks for the stick. To me, most of the stuff he tends to smoke and enjoy tastes like a cowboys saddle would taste if you licked it after a 1000 mile ride through the desert on a sweaty assed horse. Basically, most of his sticks taste the same to me...like dirty leather (not even a rich clean leather) and ash, but predominantly ash.
I have given him good cigars, a 3yo Cohiba Secretos, a 5yo Upmann Majestic, a RA SCC, and a RASS, all of which are smokign great and typical flavors developed.... and he finds nothing good in any of those cigars, and looks at me like I have 3 eyeballs when I ask him about the "cuban twang". He tells me all of the sticks I give him are either bum sticks or taste like ash to him. He just bashed a 5yo Dominican Cohiba Red Dot last week, that tasted wonderful to me, and even had a slight cuban twang. I think the guy is a complete whack job, and I am tired of giving him high end sticks that he feels the need to pan and send back his corny notes and reviews about. I could stop giving him smokes, and put an end to teh madness easily, but thats not how I roll.... I want to end this with a bang. lol
So, here is my plan.... he typically smokes Robusto sized smokes and he smokes alot of stuff from the Gran Habano line (George Rico), like the Vintage 2002, 3SLS, Corojo #5, etc. I have sampled all of these, and honestly, the only one I liked (and I did actually enjoy it), was the 3SLS. This stick used to be called 3 Siglos, but they had to change the name due to trademark infringement or something like that. I need to find a couple Churchill, Torpedo, Double Corona or any sized sticks other than a Robusto in any of these GH lines. My end goal is for him to review something that he has smoked before, that has now been unbanded so he cannot easily distinguish a label.... I want to put his true supertaster title to teh test, and have him send me the review to compare to prior tasting notes from the Robusto sized version(s). My personal feeling is that his new review will be nothing at all like the ones he has been smoking for months.
Before I go hunting for some of the dog rockets this guy typically smokes, does anyone have any better ideas on how to prove to this guy that he is not the cigar aficionado he claims to be and make an attempt at shutting him up and putting an end to the ridiculous reviews he sends ? I encounter weird people everyday in my line of work (engineering), but I swear this guy parachutes into the office daily....
Thanks for any guidance on how to make this test run any smoother.
:cheers:
Anyways, he gives me a stick every now and then, and I smoke them, like I do with all gifted cigars (smoking all gifted cigars is just good cigar ettiquette), and I grin and bear it with all of the sticks he gives me, and I rarely say much back about them, except for a thanks for the stick. To me, most of the stuff he tends to smoke and enjoy tastes like a cowboys saddle would taste if you licked it after a 1000 mile ride through the desert on a sweaty assed horse. Basically, most of his sticks taste the same to me...like dirty leather (not even a rich clean leather) and ash, but predominantly ash.
I have given him good cigars, a 3yo Cohiba Secretos, a 5yo Upmann Majestic, a RA SCC, and a RASS, all of which are smokign great and typical flavors developed.... and he finds nothing good in any of those cigars, and looks at me like I have 3 eyeballs when I ask him about the "cuban twang". He tells me all of the sticks I give him are either bum sticks or taste like ash to him. He just bashed a 5yo Dominican Cohiba Red Dot last week, that tasted wonderful to me, and even had a slight cuban twang. I think the guy is a complete whack job, and I am tired of giving him high end sticks that he feels the need to pan and send back his corny notes and reviews about. I could stop giving him smokes, and put an end to teh madness easily, but thats not how I roll.... I want to end this with a bang. lol
So, here is my plan.... he typically smokes Robusto sized smokes and he smokes alot of stuff from the Gran Habano line (George Rico), like the Vintage 2002, 3SLS, Corojo #5, etc. I have sampled all of these, and honestly, the only one I liked (and I did actually enjoy it), was the 3SLS. This stick used to be called 3 Siglos, but they had to change the name due to trademark infringement or something like that. I need to find a couple Churchill, Torpedo, Double Corona or any sized sticks other than a Robusto in any of these GH lines. My end goal is for him to review something that he has smoked before, that has now been unbanded so he cannot easily distinguish a label.... I want to put his true supertaster title to teh test, and have him send me the review to compare to prior tasting notes from the Robusto sized version(s). My personal feeling is that his new review will be nothing at all like the ones he has been smoking for months.
Before I go hunting for some of the dog rockets this guy typically smokes, does anyone have any better ideas on how to prove to this guy that he is not the cigar aficionado he claims to be and make an attempt at shutting him up and putting an end to the ridiculous reviews he sends ? I encounter weird people everyday in my line of work (engineering), but I swear this guy parachutes into the office daily....
Thanks for any guidance on how to make this test run any smoother.
:cheers: