What is this?

[zirotti]

Just cut this RP Edge Sumatra and there is this rock hard piece. It's the lighter colored piece. What is this?

 

[SurpriseMVP]

Its a smashed styrofoam peanut. To each their own, but I do not touch Rocky's stuff.

 

[Herfin' Harg]

Well... it is in roughly the same proportion as the actual island, so maybe more of Rocky's marketing genius!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Sumatra_Topography.png

Look on the bright side, at least you have a really good cutter!

 

[dennisking]

I've had that in a MOW Virtue one time as well as a couple other sticks I can't remember. When I cut these open to look at them, I usually find it's a very thick binder leaf that wasn't folded correctly. It's handmade and these things happen. sometimes, this causes a hot draw because the dense leaf is burning so hot.

 

[zirotti]

Mystery solved. Piece of stem.

 

[Goalee1]

Looks like ginseng root. G1

 

[mwlabel]

Chunk of human bone? :bouncetau

 

[madaxeman]

It's like Willy Wonka. Send it to Rocky for a free factory tour.

 

[TheDudeAbides]

Pretty sure that's the nougat-y center.
-Dude
(And who says cigars aren't marketed to kids?)

 

[Nickerson]

Oops, looks like a piece of his integrity got lodged in there.

 

[ATL]

One would think the draw machine that tests every cigar that leaves the factory would catch a stone like that.

 

[Okcsmoker]

Yeah Pocky Ratel cigars< Quality cigars. Sorry about your experience bud.

 

[Splatt]

I've had issues with all but one RP I have tried...no more for me

 

[Docbp87]

Oops, looks like a piece of his integrity got lodged in there.

lol!

But really, this. I can't begin to explain all of the things about Rocky that bug me. In a talk I saw him give once, he explained to the audience that vitolas like petit coronas, lanceros, lonsdales, and panetelas (all classic sizes going back to the olden days of Cuban cigar tradition) gaining popularity over the last year or two among serious smokers in nothing but a passing fad, while the super toros, toro gordos, gorditas, 60 ring gauge horse cocks, and 70 ring gauge mega nubs are the future of the cigar industry. It took most of my willpower to resist walking to the podium and smacking the teeth out his mouth!

 

[USCG Cigar Newb]

I have actually had a couple and didnt have an issue with them construction wise, though I wasnt to keen on the flavor. Oh well, sorry man, as they said when hand made stuff happens.

 

[LigaPrivadaFanboy]

RP sux. Construction fail. Flavor fail. Marketing to noobs win. Learned the hard way as has everyone here.

 

[whodeeni]

I think the Sumatra Edge is the best cigar he makes! I would actually
buy a cab of them if i had somewhere to store them!

 

[Alwayslit]

Its a smashed styrofoam peanut. To each their own, but I do not touch Rocky's stuff.

LOFL, good one.

 

[ciggy]

Maybe you should keep that for stem cell research. :grin:

 

[Ahmed]

what was that!!! gingar!!