La Gran Fuma: A Recession Fighting Cigar

(Firecured) The house is under water, the 401k is still in the dumps, the stocks are up one day and down the next, and the job, well, maybe it will be there next year, maybe not. What's a poor cigar lover to do? Fear not, friend, there are some hand rolled cigars on the market that will let you hold your head up in public without busting your new budget, and some of them even taste good. Here's one:
At $1.50 a stick, La Gran Fuma cigars can't hold a candle to cigars costing many times more, to expect so would be unreasonable. Reasonable people, however, may enjoy this mild cigar from the makers of Gran Habano. For the price, the taste is reasonably pleasant, the construction reasonably solid, the burn reasonably even, and the finish reasonably good. I think you get the idea.
The wrapper is Nicaraguan Corojo, the binder Nicaraguan, the mixed filler (long/short) Costa Rican & Nicaraguan. Each cigar sports a jaunty band and comes in a sturdy wooden box of 20. If you're on a budget and smoke one cigar a week, I think you could do better, but if you're on a budget and smoke one or more cigars a day, you may want to try La Gran Fuma.

Photo: Famous Smoke Shop