Filipino cigars

[bripper]

Anita, a checkout specialist at Fred Meyer, the supermarket in our little town, is one of the sunniest people I encounter on my daily rounds. I always give Anita a mug, a tumbler, a bag, a cooler, a calendar, some sort of swag, and especially a black & yellow pen. She and her husband are Steelers diehards, like me.
A few months ago, Anita mentioned she was going to visit her family in the Phillippines and asked if I wanted anything. Cigars was my answer.
Anita today delivered a gift bag from Ninoy Aquino Intl. Airport in Manila, where she got a 20-pack of Tabacalera cigarillos from a firm that has been making cigars in the Phillippines since 1881: https://www.tabacalera.com.ph/
Plus a 10-pack of a cigar with a strange obloid shape called La Reynas Mascaras. Appears to be 2 small cigars rolled into one, like a wide culebra. The La Reynas Mascaras Facebook page notes that it is a chewing tobacco company, plus it distributes juice and milk in paper cartons similar to these cigars.
https://www.facebook.com/La-Reyna-Fabrica-de-Mascadas-786634938042562/
Anita said she looked for cigars in Manila, but could not find them. She said this purchase was made by one of her cousins "out in the provinces."
Will give these cigars a rest after the long journey.

 

[navyvet]

Yeah there arent many places that manufature cigars in the philippines most of the children didnt even know what cigars were and had never seen them before like 13 year old didnt even know the word for cigar. I looked all over cebu and lyete and moalboal. Tobaclara is like the only tobacco company in the philippines. They do have a local cigerett where they roll tobacco into some kind of fruit leaf it is sweet but i have been told that it is very bad for your teeth. I found one cigar shop in cebu hotel the henry super nice hotel stayed a couple days there but they have just regular stuff no outside brands. There were several cigar lounges the tinder box closed cigars and piano bar closed. Navyvets philipino vaction thread for pictures

 

[StuffedSloth]

mascadas sounds like chewers in spanish

 

[Trev054]

My wife brings those and San Miguel beer home for me when she goes home. Not bad on the cigars. I hope San Mig is what they serve in heaven, if I get there. Ha