Talking about "Gas Station" cigars...years ago in and shortly after college I couldn't "afford" REAL cigars but my love was either Garcia y Vegas or Antonio and Cleopatra Grenadiers...
I Liked the G y Vs better, but the A &Cs were about as good, and 6 for the same price as 5....LOL
When my first kid was born, the Proud Daddy bought a 50 box of G y Vs, and handed them out like candy...You can TELL them "It's a Girl," and not waste your money on the Pink or blue stale White Owls they have (or USED to???) at the hospital gift shop.
1 1/2 years later, after my son was born, I popped out of the delivery room while they were cleaning up, and getting ready to move my wife and son, raced downtown in Athens, Ohio and bought another box of 50 G y Vs...and left my wife a few to hand out after I left to go get my daughter...
The next morning before I got there our Pediatrician showed up to check on my wife and son...
My wife asked him if I had called him to tell him, and he said, no...the night before he was looking at the births and when he saw ours he decided just to stop in to see if I he could get another of those good cigars...
My wife gave him 3...
Hey guys, "Drug Store" and "Gas Station" cigars serve a purpose...
I even bought another box of A&C Grenadiers a few weeks ago, and they weren't BAD....but I can smoke one good $8 cigar as long as it would take me to smoke the entire BOX of A&Cs....plus it will be FRESHER...
But I wonder if my new Golf Gigars, the $2.00 "Tabacalera de Garcia" I buy from the bottom shelf out of the same shop where I buy my RPs and Partagas and Punches....
Just MIGHT be made by the same people that package the "Garcia y Vegas'???