Interesting observation

[7kingsguy]

Last night after dinner I decided to have a Jose L Piedra. Im not a big fan but money is tight and so on. Anyway, I happened to have a bit of indegestion and started sucking on a rennies. Usually I wouldnt have one while smoking but I thought, it cant make this thing much worse can it?

To my amazement, I suddenly started to get a much more balanced tasting cigar. It suddenly went from moiderately harsh tobacco with a slight whiff of petrol, to an average but very smooth smoke. I can only guess as to why this might happen, but I dont think it is as simple as the sugar making it taste better - Ive had sweets in my mouth before and noticed no effect. Could it be something to do with the Calcium Carbonate?

I also noticed once I finished the rennie it went back to being harsh again, so it wasnt the cigar changing for the better.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

[Zigatoh]

Not quite the same but if I do my teeth after a good cigar the after taste and the mint often combine to make a toffee flavour!

[Simon Bolivar]

It's just amazing what other people do! I do regularly take Gaviscon before bed to prevent reflux, if I have had a cigar in the evening but never take an antacid whilst smoking! Why would you have a sweet in your mouth whilst smoking? I assume you have picked up these habits whilst smoking fags? One bad habit leading to others? Havanas are all about the flav, if you don't enjoy the flav of the stix you are smoking (& I never got on with JLP either) than change your stix.

[7kingsguy]

It's just amazing what other people do! I do regularly take Gaviscon before bed to prevent reflux, if I have had a cigar in the evening but never take an antacid whilst smoking! Why would you have a sweet in your mouth whilst smoking? I assume you have picked up these habits whilst smoking fags? One bad habit leading to others? Havanas are all about the flav, if you don't enjoy the flav of the stix you are smoking (& I never got on with JLP either) than change your stix.

sometimes I get reflux come on all of a msudden and i have no choice!

[Zigatoh]

To be fair you did say -
"Usually I wouldnt have one while smoking but I thought, it cant make this thing much worse can it?"

Though if it was that bad I would have chucked it

[Reaver2145]

Well as cigar smoke is meant to be very alkaline (i think thats the word) maybe it was combining with your rennies to nutralize the acids and make you feel better so while it was working you where enjoying the smoke more JlPs aint bad for the price but for what 2 quid more you can get a lot of petite coronas that are far better.

On the note of the topic i do find that a few of my cigars taste better when combined with whisky(mainly bolivar) or gin preferably hendricks in the form of several martinis though maybe im just a alcoholic.

PS. This is for everyone who has heart burn/indigestion instead of paying a small fortune for a little pack of rennies go buy yourself a bottle of angostura bitters or any other aromatic bitters and either drink a shot glass of them or add a few squirts to a glass of club soda and sip that ive always found it to work faster and be more effective than rennies though a shot of it tastes like crap.

[JOAO LA PEZ]

Get your Doctor to prescribe omeprazole my brother takes it and says 1 a day sorts it out.

[M1F2R3]

It's coke & mentos all over again! I find Foster's, or as I once innocently called it "Nut juice" whilst I was drunk, often brings out a coconut taste with cigars!

[7kingsguy]

Get your Doctor to prescribe omeprazole my brother takes it and says 1 a day sorts it out.

Alas Omeprazole disagrees with me in unfortunate ways.