Phillies Blunt Strawberry Review

[SeanGAR]

My last foray into "blue collar" cigars got me interested, so last night when I was getting gas I bought a 5 pk of Phillies Blunt Strawberry.

Now, I know these aren't cigars that typically get reviewed here. And technically this review will fall under the contest Dave is running for an '80s Dunhill. Not really fair, is it? I mean really, Phillies sells thousands of these cigars a day .... how many 80s Dunhills are sold at gas stations nationwide? I'm willing to bet zero.

Now you're probably smacking your foreheads saying "why strawberry, you ass, everybody knows that the grape ones are the best". I was attracted by the pink package. Sue me.

Being slightly cautious, I decided to dissect one of these first.



The binder looked exactly like brown paper and was bound up the middle, the wrapper was homogenized tobacco leaf. The filler was short and looked like tobacco. So far, so good. Now the sweet smell had me thinking I could smoke this in a pipe.

But just as I was packing the pipe, I got a strange call from the SPCP ... Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Pipes. How did they know I was about to torture my Savinelli? In any case, I ceased and desisted. No need to ruin a perfectly good pipe.

Went out on the back porch as I made my wife lunch. I can smoke and cook at the same time, just popping inside to turn things over.



I cracked the cello and lit it up. Hmm .... very sweet tasting, strawberry is there but muted, definately different but not disgusting a la Cremosa.



I was actually impressed with the ash for a short filler, I knocked it off after this picture.

Taste remained sweet, slight taste of tobacco from time to time, I found this much better than the Swisher Sweets that I had reviewed months ago.

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8150

The burn stayed perfect, like a cigarette of course, and the taste remained decent but sweet all the way. Having smoked a few flavored pipe tobaccos in the past month definately helped me with the sweetness and aroma, which otherwise would not have gone over well.

All in all a solid D+ ... I would smoke one of these again without problem.

[Da Klugs]

UR killing me here. Should have put an equal or greater value clause in the contest. But then you would have to ship LTL as UPS has that sticky 50 lb limit per package. I think I better go up to the office and smoke one of the Dunhills, write a review...

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

UR killing me here. Should have put an equal or greater value clause in the contest. But then you would have to ship LTL as UPS has that sticky 50 lb limit per package. I think I better go up to the office and smoke one of the Dunhills, write a review...

Actually, I'm going to put a review in the Habanos reviews section in a bit, a Partagas Charlotte from 2/98. I haven't left the house to pick up the cigar(s) at work since Rocky is still suffering the results of losing a fight with A. Sphalt.

[LiteHedded]

lol you're not supposed to smoke those with the tobacco still inside

[The Prince]

Sean, never let anyone tell you, you don't have balls. Because it takes big ones to smoke those.

[Jay]

Lets just say the reason they are sold by thousands per day, is not to enjoy a cigar.

Let's just say your disection picture comes more close to what they are bought for on a regular basis

[LiteHedded]

Originally Posted by Jay

Lets just say the reason they are sold by thousands per day, is not to enjoy a cigar.

Let's just say your disection picture comes more close to what they are bought for on a regular basis

lol wink wink
I've seen many a phillie blunt from similar vantage points

[SeanGAR]

Lets not be patronizing boys, I grew up in the 60s and 70s and have sampled a majority of the scheduled drugs.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

You take out the tobacco and place it in a poupourri. Uhmmm ... strawberry poupourri ... it makes me feel like so ALIVE.

And you youngsters think us geezers ain't hip.

[Jeff]

Did you check the box code on those Sean? They may have been rolled on machines in Florida instead on South Carolina.

[LiteHedded]

just like grandma used to make

[vic_c]

Nice review! After reading this I think I'm going to stock up on them!
They definitely sound like something to age in the humidor.

[LiteHedded]

and sticking them in the humi gives you the added benefit of making all your other premiums smell like strawberries for no extra charge

[D. Generate]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Lets not be patronizing boys, I grew up in the 60s and 70s and have sampled a majority of the scheduled drugs.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

You take out the tobacco and place it in a poupourri. Uhmmm ... strawberry poupourri ... it makes me feel like so ALIVE.

And you youngsters think us geezers ain't hip.

Waitaminute! They weren't talking 'bout.... [size=1] the reefer![/size]

Were they?

[illuminatus]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

And you youngsters think us geezers ain't hip.

I never said that...
you're pretty for "geezer"

[SmokusMaximus]

I wonder if that's "Aged" cellophane?