A 'Nub' that dare not speak its name!

[El Catador]

So, finally it happened, I lost my 'Nub' cherry today! (Cameroon)

I guess I didn't know what to expect.
Having read so many reports on how wonderful an experience it can be, I confess I found it something of a . . . (dare I say it?) . . . let down.

After opening up the 'box' and slipping off the protection, I inhaled its fragrant aroma, enjoying the promise of things to come, before 'punching' a hole in it and firing it up.

It's true that these babies are beautifully put together and burn like a dream, but. . . I just couldn't love it.

I think I should make it clear from the outset (in order not to offend any 'Nub lovers' out there), it's not you (the Nub), it's me.
I'm a Cuban boy through and through. They're what I started out on, my first love if you like.

It's difficult to put my finger on the problem, other than to say it's the 'after-taste' I found strange. Like someone had added a couple of Darjeeling tea leaves to the blend for a bit of fun.

This odd 'after-taste' persisted right through to the final third, I kinda got used to it, but just couldn't enjoy it.
Though I will say, in the interests of balance, I can totally understand why others love these - precisely because of their very distinctive taste.

Anyhow, to cut a sad story short - I remain unconverted.

I'm sorry, truly sorry!

The (I fear hopeless) search for an NC that can compete with a Cuban for my affections continues.

[jibjob79]

Don't give up, the best nub is the habano imho, like the Cameroon but love the Habano

[eggopp]

Hmmm i quite enjoy a Nub, but i think perhaps had you had one then, the Nub Habano might have been the best of the Nubs to sample its the one i enjoy the most. That said i also like Cubans but hey you know me, i also like 'anything' lets call me eggie diverse lol...

Shame you didnt like it, or maybe you liked it, but didnt fully enjoy the experience?

Nice write up about the experience too Mr cat... I think you may have opened the floodgates to being bombed by NCs.. lol Mr Shuckins.. you reading lmao

[Lee Nub]

Oh how dare you sir, your dead to me cat, dead.

[El Catador]

... I think you may have opened the floodgates to being bombed by NCs..

God, don't say that.
It's not that I wouldn't appreciate the gesture mind, it's just that (at my present rate of consumption), I've already got enough NC's to last nearly a year!

Now, if you were sayin' . . . some peanut-butter M&M's, or a sexy Cuban. . . well ... (as I said to the postman the other day) . . . my 'flap' is always open*. . . xx

*Oh God - Now I sound like eggy! (Umn, no offence, 'O Great 'Cheek' Master!!).

[eggopp]

*Oh God - Now I sound like eggy! (Umn, no offence, 'O Great 'Cheek' Master!!).

How very dare you Sir!! There is only room for one eggy Just cant possibly share the scrounging!!

[El Catador]

Oh how dare you sir, your dead to me cat, dead.

Say it ain't so!!!
(On his knees, hands held out, clasped together... beseechingly!)

"Forgive me. . . my pallet has been corrupted. . . I cannot be turned from. . . the 'Dark Side'. . . Fidel Castro is my 'Master'".

Come along to the Chester Herf, my 'young' . . ahem . . () apprentice', and I will give you some-thing to convert you.


"That's the trouble with these 'Nub Lovers'. . . .they just haven't met the right CUBAN yet!"

[rokkitsci]

INCOMING!

Welp, after our feline friend blurted:

The (I fear hopeless) search for an NC that can compete with a Cuban for my affections continues.

Eggy, prophetically replied:

I think you may have opened the floodgates to being bombed by NCs.. lol Mr Shuckins.. you reading lmao

to which Sir Pussmeister groaned:

God, don't say that.
It's not that I wouldn't appreciate the gesture mind, it's just that (at my present rate of consumption), I've already got enough NC's to last nearly a year!

I enjoy a hearty Cuban as well as the next bloke; however, I cannot, in all fairness, say that they -- and they alone -- are the cat's meow, as it were, and, apparently, as it is, for our resident tabbyman. There are multitudes of NC's which I enjoy every bit as much as an earthy, barnyard Cuban.

Thus, I don't know about The Shuckster (although I have my suspicions), but I feel as if the gauntlet has been thrown down, the glove slapped 'crosst me face, the challenge issued, as it were.

Le Chat, I happen to know where you live.

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

[davidruddell]

My sincere condolences on the loss of your tastebuds.

(Or is it us Nub lovers are just plain oiks?)

Gotta try a Habano now? Or maybe a Cain Nub?

We'll convert you eventually, even if it takes some Manchurian candidate style mind tricks!

So, finally it happened, I lost my 'Nub' cherry today! (Cameroon)

I guess I didn't know what to expect.
Having read so many reports on how wonderful an experience it can be, I confess I found it something of a . . . (dare I say it?) . . . let down.

After opening up the 'box' and slipping off the protection, I inhaled its fragrant aroma, enjoying the promise of things to come, before 'punching' a hole in it and firing it up.

It's true that these babies are beautifully put together and burn like a dream, but. . . I just couldn't love it.

I think I should make it clear from the outset (in order not to offend any 'Nub lovers' out there), it's not you (the Nub), it's me.
I'm a Cuban boy through and through. They're what I started out on, my first love if you like.

It's difficult to put my finger on the problem, other than to say it's the 'after-taste' I found strange. Like someone had added a couple of Darjeeling tea leaves to the blend for a bit of fun.

This odd 'after-taste' persisted right through to the final third, I kinda got used to it, but just couldn't enjoy it.
Though I will say, in the interests of balance, I can totally understand why others love these - precisely because of their very distinctive taste.

Anyhow, to cut a sad story short - I remain unconverted.

I'm sorry, truly sorry!

The (I fear hopeless) search for an NC that can compete with a Cuban for my affections continues.

[Boss Hog]

Dont give up just yet, wait till you have the other one, it's much better

[Lee Nub]

Don't get me wrong cat, I do like cubans have have quite a few, its just NC's seem to appeal more to me

[Soulmanure]

Welp, after our feline friend blurted:


Le Chat, I happen to know where you live.

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

Send your worst, Rokkitsci; kill the incurious cat.

However, we all ought to keep in mind that the Cat perhaps can't help it. Think of the rough tongue, the preference for foul tasting foods that smell of rank tuna, and the fact that he cleans himself unflinchingly with his own mouth; these would suggest a certain inability to appreciate subtlety.

[El Catador]

"Oh Bugger!"

(El Cat flicks on his light-sabre)

"I'll not go down without a fight mind!"

[Soulmanure]

"Oh Bugger!"

(El Cat flicks on his light-sabre)

"I'll not go down without a fight mind!"

Oooh, a fight. I dare say that is exciting. Who will you fight, Catman?

Excellent quote down there, by the by.

[davidruddell]

So which is best?

The Cuban or the Non Cuban?

There's only one way to find out.

Fiiiiiiiight!!