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Frito Lay has been on a roll recently with its new flavor combinations, from Spicy Sweet to the Cool Ranch/Habanero combo bags.  But, this new flavor with an online game tie in ( www.doritosthequest.com/) were pretty disgusting to both my co-worker and myself.  Now these are advertised with the tag line “guessing the flavor is just the beginning…”  We’ll it didn’t take long for me to figure that out. (Nacho Cheese Doritos pictured to the right)

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While doing some research for an upcoming Friday Factoid I needed to look up the gerund participle of the verb ‘to die.’ However, at that time I had no idea I needed the gerund participle, just that I wasn’t sure how to spell ‘dying.’ While searching for ‘verb conjugation’ I came across verb2verbe.com.

This site provides every possible conjugation of English and French verbs, great for anyone in school that needs to look up the proper imperative conjugation of the French verb reconnaître. verb2verbe has a very simple layout that lets your search for either English or French verbs and gives their conjugations in a fast and easy to print result page.

verb2verbe also allows you to browse through their database of English and French verbs. This is great, especially in French were many words can have the same beginning letters and have same meaning, allowing you to find just the right word.

To check out more of verb2verbe.com either click on the logo above or the link in this sentence.

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Last week perseus.maximus and I went to Chick-fil-A to grab some lunch. We both ordered the classic chicken sandwich, but on our way out we noticed a sign for a spicy chicken sandwich. Well, today I had the pleasure of eating one of these sandwiches. I must say, Wendy’s officially has competition in the spicy chicken market.

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From multiple cigar sites:

Before becoming known for some of the best premiums in the world, Cusano cigars started their value driven business in bundles with their Celebrity series which encompasses several lines of bundled cigars that were made with one goal in mind, to compete directly with name brand cigars twice their price. Rolled at the famous Tabadom Factory in the Dominican Republic, the bundled Cusano Celebrity series has used exacting standards to match the blends of some of the most famous cigars in the world including Punch, Partagas, Macanudo, and Montecristo to name a few. This cigar uses an Connecticut shade wrapper, Dominican binder and Dominican filler.

The M1 by Cusano directly challenges the blend of the famous Macanudo, acclaimed to the best selling cigar in the United States. Since its debut it has become an everyday cigar for smokers everywhere that want to combine great prices with great cigars. This mild Connecticut wrapper cigar that captures the mild and smooth essence that cigars from this region have become known for. In addition to Macanudo, this cigar is a great alternative to other Dominican favorites such as La Aurora, Fuente, and Ashton. The cigars come packaged in bundles of 20 and are available in 5 sizes.

Personally I enjoyed this little cigar. It had a slightly sweet taste to start and produced plenty of smoke. My wife told me it smelled nice, which is always a plus since no one likes a stinky cigar. I got a bundle of the Cafe Robusto, these are a small cigar which I finished in 20 minutes. The taste got leathery and slightly bitter towards the end of the smoke. Probably because they were a little dry (I just finished unpacking them from being in the big brown truck all day). Hopefully these guys get better as they age in the humidor. These could easily become a daily smoker.
More to come in a few weeks.

Wrapper: Dark Ecuadorian Sumatra
Filler: Honduran, Nicaraguan, Dominican
Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf
Manufactured In: Honduras

The Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra happens to be one of my favorite cigars. If I could afford a box at a time I would buy them this way, but usually I just get them a stick or two at a time. This full-bodied cigar gets its name from the wrapper, a sun grown dark Sumatra seed. Of course, what would a premium cigar be without a Connecticut grown leaf in there? In the case of the Dark Sumatra it is used as the binder.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the Dark Sumatra is that it is wrapped in a thin sheet of cedar. This is the perfect cigar for someone seeking a long, even burn and a very dark flavor.