Monty Python's Cigar Shop Sketch

[jpmoore]

I like to visit cigar shops on my travels. This afternoon i popped into Taylors Tobacconist in Brighton. It has a largeish walk in humidor but today total was total EMPTY not a single stick in it at all.

It just reminded me of the old monty python cheese shop sketch
Do you have any Cohibas - Normally Sir yes but today the van broke down
Montecristos - Yes.....Oh no the Cat just Smoked it.

Anyway i hope this is not the sign of things to come for high street cigar retailers.

[Stevieboy]

LOL!!! Bizarre. Mebbe it was being fumigated for the dreaded beetle...that or Robusto had been in 10 mins before you :tongue:

[Deano]

I like to visit cigar shops on my travels. This afternoon i popped into Taylors Tobacconist in Brighton. It has a largeish walk in humidor but today total was total EMPTY not a single stick in it at all.

It just reminded me of the old monty python cheese shop sketch
Do you have any Cohibas - Normally Sir yes but today the van broke down
Montecristos - Yes.....Oh no the Cat just Smoked it.

Anyway i hope this is not the sign of things to come for high street cigar retailers.

I work NEXT door (ok about 10 doors up on Church Street) to Taylors. He has an 'issue' with his Cuban supplier at the moment (has for about 2 months so far it seems). But they're quite expensive if I remember correctly from the last time he had stock. We'll see what happens when he's next with product.

[jpmoore]

I thought there was only one cuban supplier in the UK ?

[Stevieboy]

I thought there was only one cuban supplier in the UK ?
So did I...:confused:

[Deano]

Indeed. Which makes it odd. Though I suspect there's many 'distributors' on behalf of H&F, and I presume this is what he must mean.

[jpmoore]

Yet he is listed as a retailer H&F website you would of thought he could buy direct from them??

[Deano]

All I know is that what he's said (twice) and it's been quite a while now.

[Deano]

Spoke to him today, he's sorted H&F out but may not re-stock and only go with tubos from now on, due to sales etc.

Great shame, but I never bought from there anyway, way too expensive even for the UK.

[jpmoore]

It is a shame i do like popping in to high street shops just to see if they have anything interesting. The high taxes are killing high street tobbacconists.

[daverave999]

Well he won't have very good sales if he has nothing to sell...

I'm sure someone else mentioned that they found that shop a little disappointing before.

[Lascaux]

haha yeah i posted a while back,
went into the shop around may, taylors had NO cuban cigars and only one vitola of one NC left in a large walk-in humidor.
poor guy!