Rehman Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Hardly a salubrious subject for my first cigar-related thought for some time, no thanks to crashing my road bike for the first and last time (I broke it) and going about the startlingly expensive but not unpleasant project of getting a new bike. (I did not suffer injury, which was lucky, but the bike fell further and hit harder.) But I digress. A friend returning from abroad with a 12-box of Trinidad Robusto Ts was taken aback by my instructions to him on freezing them immediately. "You're joking," he said. "Not in the slightest," I said, the memory still vivid of a misplaced box of TRTs eventually discovered behind a bookshelf, its once-precious contents reduced to compost by a crawling army of tobacco beetles. Trinidads have also featured prominently in what other beetle troubles I've suffered, and when these lovely but discontinued lines are gone there won't be any more. "Trust me," I said. "The cigars will thank you for it in a week, five months, three, five and ten years' time." This is true, of course. But it does mean we smoke beetles' eggs, don't we?
Rushman Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Sorry to hear about your wreck. I've been riding for half my life and was unlucky and embarrassed enough to wreck (of all things) a scooter on day 1 of ownership after I moved to PDC Mexico this summer. Scooter survived but my tibia didn't. I still limp going down stairs. Good thing I left my expensive cycles in the US. Anyway, yes we smoke beetle eggs and larvae......yum! Better then the alternative. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=20.631747,-87.070679
Guest Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Sorry to hear about the bike, hope you get a faster one lol. Well we eat beetles everyday! sorry to say but E120 additive is mashed up beetles, this is where we get the red food colouring from and also we use other beetles to shine food aswell like apples, the next time you eat a shiny apple think about it. Sorry to make you feel ill
kmagurk Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Nothing like smoking beetles while listening to the Beatles
Guest Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Nothing like smoking beetles while listening to the Beatles While driving in a VW Beatle...
Rehman Posted January 8, 2012 Author Posted January 8, 2012 I still limp going down stairs. Ouch, that hurts at a couple of levels. Rites of bloody passage. I have a bisected collarbone that will never allow me to wear off-the-shoulder ballgowns again. But I can't not ride. Cigars help.
Figaro Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Glad to read you're safe. As far as I know, not every single tobacco leaf has beetles, larvae or eggs. If they happen to be there when the leaves are rolled, they are dormant until the proper conditions present themselves to "start the party".
Rehman Posted January 8, 2012 Author Posted January 8, 2012 Sorry to hear about the bike, hope you get a faster one lol. I'm so glad you mentioned it. It's taking time and money to get it together, in my hands and under my butt, but it'll be a titanium/carbon Van Nicholas Astraeus with Campagnolo Record. (You did know I was talking bicycle, right?) Well we eat beetles everyday! sorry to say but E120 additive is mashed up beetles, this is where we get the red food colouring from and also we use other beetles to shine food aswell like apples, the next time you eat a shiny apple think about it. Sorry to make you feel ill Oh, I'm okay with that. I think this insect stuff was (or still is?) used in lipstick as well. (Which, I suppose, makes it either completely benign or fatally toxic, depending on which leg you're standing on.) At least it doesn't come alive when left alone.
Colt45 Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Beetle eggs might be the least nasty of the stuff we end up smoking....
mazolaman Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Nothing like smoking beetles while listening to the Beatles I am the egg man, coo coo ca chew! Could be worse, if we smoked cigarettes, we'd be smoking 4000 chemicals, inc arsenic, cyanide etc... Hope you get back on the horse soon.
CaptainQuintero Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Glad your on the mend man Re eggs, I apply the same logic that I do with McDonalds: I don't care if it's made from eyelids and nipple meat, it tastes nice so I'm happy eating it.
jsd Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Glad your on the mend man Re eggs, I apply the same logic that I do with McDonalds: I don't care if it's made from eyelids and nipple meat, it tastes nice so I'm happy eating it. Wow. Eyelids and nipple meat...two ingredients I actually had not thought of when wondering what I might be eating at McDonalds. But it does taste nice so I'm okay with it.
Wil Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 A friend returning from abroad with a 12-box of Trinidad Robusto Ts was taken aback by my instructions to him on freezing them immediately. "You're joking," he said. Doesn't Habanos SA freeze all of its cigars prior to export?
ZinZan Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 There you go Rehman, it aint that much safer on the roadie than a mountain. But seriously, glad you came out all right. So what are you planning to buy an Italian Stallion? You probably know this KSH in TTDI has opened a new shop, really nice shop with more frames than the previous outlet. Getting back to the thread topic, i never freeze the boxes before maybe because I've never had beetle outbreak before. I really should start now.
sblevit Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Wow. Eyelids and nipple meat...two ingredients I actually had not thought of when wondering what I might be eating at McDonalds. But it does taste nice so I'm okay with it. Personally, I prefer the armpits and assholes, but that's just me.
Rehman Posted January 10, 2012 Author Posted January 10, 2012 There you go Rehman, it aint that much safer on the roadie than a mountain. Not with me on it, anyway. It sure wasn't about the bike. But seriously, glad you came out all right. So what are you planning to buy an Italian Stallion? You probably know this KSH in TTDI has opened a new shop, really nice shop with more frames than the previous outlet. Yes, I did check up on them, but they didn't have what I wanted. The frame is Dutch - Van Nicholas - but the groupset's Italian - Campagnolo Record. Getting back to the thread topic, i never freeze the boxes before maybe because I've never had beetle outbreak before. I really should start now. Put it this way - since I became obsessive about freezing as a safeguard against the horrors of a beetle infestation, it's never seemed to harm the cigars in any way. Better safe than sorry, I say!
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