Spiders tried to eat my face.

[smitty81]

Originally Posted by Sam Leccia

i think the brand of the cigar is irrelevant.

This more than likely happened well after it was rolled.

it could have happened in the aging room, in transport, at the retailer, or even ones own house.

all that said....that is awesome!

You think a spider could have crawled all the way up to the cap in a rolled cigar?

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by smitty81

You think a spider could have crawled all the way up to the cap in a rolled cigar?

You think a roller could have rolled up a nest of eggs without noticing it?

[smitty81]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

You think a roller could have rolled up a nest of eggs without noticing it?

Just seems like it would have to be a pretty darn small spider. Even then it seeme like a tight crawl.

[DaBear]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

You think a roller could have rolled up a nest of eggs without noticing it?

Its possible. If the roller was not the one who destemmed the leaf, they could have easily just picked it up from a pile and bunched it with other leaves without noticing. If they were responsible for destemming that particular leaf as well as rolling its less likely for it to have gone unnoticed, but still possible. Easiest way to destem is to fold in half and pull the stem out, if the web was on the inside of the folded leaf it could go unnoticed fairly easily. These are handmade products made by people on somewhat of a schedule. Hence why we end up with a plugged cigar every so often.

[macsauce13]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

You think a roller could have rolled up a nest of eggs without noticing it?

He missed the twigs....

[Pseudosacred]

Originally Posted by Sam Leccia

i think the brand of the cigar is irrelevant.

This more than likely happened well after it was rolled.

it could have happened in the aging room, in transport, at the retailer, or even ones own house.

all that said....that is awesome!

The spider nests, maybe. However, how would twigs make it in after it was rolled? I think the twigs are the bigger issue...

[ninjavanish]

As a quaker, I believe that this is clearly the work of witchcraft.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Sam Leccia

i think the brand of the cigar is irrelevant.

This more than likely happened well after it was rolled.

it could have happened in the aging room, in transport, at the retailer, or even ones own house.

all that said....that is awesome!

That's what I thought, too, Sam. Then I considered it was under the cap. It must have come in on the leaf.
Regardless, it's real easy to imagine a spider nest being on a piece of tobacco that was aged in a barn in the tropics and it being missed.
I understand why it could be a bit put-offish, but the company has nothing to do with it. Cigars are a natural product. Odd things are going to get in there. A roller certainly can't catch everything, it's humanly impossible.
What's amazing is that it doesn't happen all the time, as in I've never had a spider web in my cigar.
Personally I'd pull out what I could and smoke it, because I can easily imagine all the other crap I've already smoked that was rolled up in my cigars. It doesn't bother me in the least.
Kudos to you Mychal for keeping a lid on the brand. If guys can't handle the thought of sticks, rocks, twigs, spider webs, gecko turds, and other crap in their cigars, it might be time to reconsider hobbies.
Barbie dolls are fun!!!

[Cornrow_Wallis]

I'll just leave this here. Also, I'd like to apologize in advance for the crappy microsoft paint editing job.

[maninblack]

It's the new Gurkha Black Widow. They worked months on this blend.

[jluck]

Originally Posted by maninblack

It's the new Gurkha Black Widow. They worked months on this blend.

At least they finally put some thought in to what's in there cigars.

[irratebass]

Originally Posted by maninblack

It's the new Gurkha Black Widow. They worked months on this blend.

Best response ever!

Sorry this had to happen and yep I would be freaked out too.....not only beetles, but now we have to watch out for spiders......man I CANNOT tell the wife about this one heh.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by maninblack

It's the new Gurkha Black Widow. They worked months on this blend.

Heh, and here I thought it was the new test blend for this year's Monster Series...

[lenguamor]

Ive pulled some strange things outer my sticks but spiders are a first

I smoked a "Spirit of Cuba" cigar yesterday that had the same type of thing. I cut the cap with a V cutter and pulled out a bit of what I thought looked like cotton. I wonder if it was a spider nest also or maybe it was just some cotton that somehow got rolled up in it. Anyway, I smoked it. Didn't like the cigar at all.

[AlohaStyle]

Sorry you had to find that, I would be pretty weirded out too! But honestly, who cares what company this was? If he said it was a Liga, would you guys really stop smoking/buying them because of this thread? If it was a Padron, Tat or Fuente, would you really stop smoking them if you found out it was them? Sure I might think differently if it was from a company with a bad rep already, but I really could care less as sh*t happens.

[maninblack]

I told my wife and she freaked out. Guess that's why it's my hobby and not hers.

[srduggins]

The spider could have gotten rolled up into the stogie and spun the web after it was already inside. It would have been much harder for a roller to notice that.

Anyone ever hear the estimate of how many spiders we eat while we sleep? I believe it was 8 in a year. It was part of a bunch of statistics that were mostly debunked, but on this one, the expert said the estimate was probably too low.

Smoke more spiders! - so you don't have to eat them later.