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Everyone was instantly in agreement that the shisha tasted like rancid tomatoes burning, we all felt sick, and had to toss it after a couple hits.

Tried repacking with strong scents two times to salvage the session, to no avail, the tomato taste persisted in the face of spearmint and SB Blueberry Mist!

I've got the hookah disassembled and submerged in a baking soda & lemon juice bath now, but this just sucks!

It was a brand new 50g of Havana Strawberry from hookah-shisha.com.
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QUOTE (freeOS @ Jun 13 2009, 09:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Everyone was instantly in agreement that the shisha tasted like rancid tomatoes burning, we all felt sick, and had to toss it after a couple hits.

Tried repacking with strong scents two times to salvage the session, to no avail, the tomato taste persisted in the face of spearmint and SB Blueberry Mist!

I've got the hookah disassembled and submerged in a baking soda & lemon juice bath now, but this just sucks!

It was a brand new 50g of Havana Strawberry from hookah-shisha.com.


Gross man... way gross... reminds me of the time I discovered anise (or as I refer to it, the vomit comet)
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QUOTE (lowspeedchase @ Jun 13 2009, 09:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gross man... way gross... reminds me of the time I discovered anise (or as I refer to it, the vomit comet)

And it's so funny too, because I've been trying to pick "safe" flavours that everyone will enjoy. Who doesn't like strawberry?

I'm going to have to head over to the reviews section and see if I made a mistake picking up 6 50g boxes of Havana. sad.gif
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Well as of now I'm only out $3, but I do have 5 more 50g boxes of Havana waiting, so that's 5 more chances for maximum grossness.

Fruit punch
Menthol
Blueberry
Orange
Double Apple
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I don't smoke havana regularly, but it's one i can pick up easily when I am in austin so i get it from time to time. It's not great but it's cheap. I had strawberry before and it didn't taste like that. Maybe a bad batch.
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QUOTE (freeOS @ Jun 13 2009, 09:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It could certainly be a bad batch. I have friends who love Havana, so I'm not going to write off the brand wholesale just yet.


it takes a good amount for me to right off a brand. Havana has some good apple flavors.
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QUOTE (Stuie @ Jun 13 2009, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (freeOS @ Jun 13 2009, 09:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It could certainly be a bad batch. I have friends who love Havana, so I'm not going to write off the brand wholesale just yet.


it takes a good amount for me to right off a brand. Havana has some good apple flavors.


So far I'm enjoying SB and Nakhla, but I have 5 100g bags of Tangiers on the way so...
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Havana has a more heavy tobacco taste than a lot of brands. I like to put these brands in that category:

Havana
Al Waha
Tonic
Two Moons

They have some really good flavors but their tobaccoey [is that a word?] flavor seems to peek through during the session. I like Havana Orange, it's not as good as SB or Fantasia, but it's decent if you have it. I would try that next since it's a pretty safe flavor with every brand [so far the only brands to fail orange are Nahkla and Tonic IMO].
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QUOTE (delSol_si @ Jun 13 2009, 10:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If you want a good cheap brand, get Layalina. Just stay away from DA and Margarita. Margarita taste like Pine Sol.


I've got laylina watermelon that is grossing me out as well, but to a much lesser degree. It tastes and smells a bit artificial, and appears to have a ton of dye.
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QUOTE (indian_villager @ Jun 14 2009, 11:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I tried Havana blueberry......possibly the worst thing I have ever smoked.


Here's a macro shot of Havana "Blueberry" I shot yesterday. After opening the bag, I put all my Havana up for sale sad.gif
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