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Cigars
(if you don't want to read this, just go to the bottom of the page and click the link)
Here is a subject close to my heart. I'm Italian I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in West Philly. In the neighborhoods that I lived everybody made wine. My next door neighbor ,Stan, made the best. We always had a bottle of red in our fridg. When we were kids we used to go down to the bacchi field in the park and sometimes the old men would let us take a little sip out of one of the many jugs that were always around. They were the good days.
It's been many years since I've had that great #### red or the good times that went along with it. All the old guys are gone now and so is their wine. I put four hash marks in front of the word "red" for a reason. The word that the hash marks represent starts with "da", I can't write the word because of today's political correctness but it's what we called home made wine back then, "da## red". Today I call it Chianti. LOL.
I miss that wine so much that I've tried to make it at least 50 times. All I come out with is vinegar at best. Sometimes the stuff that I produced looked alien. Wine isn't supposed to be thick, lumpy opaque and mauve colored. I haven't been drinking much wine over the past 20 years, it just isn't the same.
You are probably wondering why I'm telling you all this, what does this have to do with cigars? Ok, in a nut shell I'm Italian and I can't make wine. That is an embarrassment. What do I do about this? I'm glad you asked, I find another medium in which to express my artistic heritage. I make a great cigar.
Here's how I roll a cigar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj7xh09n_dM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX4Kx2WinWo&feature=related