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Haha! VERY insightful, master wigan. I don't think ANY of us can imagine the lofty expectations of the yanks as they near the end of the 50+ year embargo....at least those yanks who played by the rules, that is.
Jay, Ray Jay
There is going to be some mighty expectations of how good Cubans are. As high as I get carried away any special smokes I get for myself are? I don't know lol
Is there actually any americans who haven't been passed a Cuban by a friend or acquired by another source and so tried at least once already? I don`t know about that either lol
Is there actually any americans who haven't been passed a Cuban by a friend or acquired by another source and so tried at least once already? I don`t know about that either lol
Haha! No doubt, amigo. I know many, many americanos who claimed to have smoked at least one fine puro. Problem is, many were likely counterfeit.
Why, I remember a few years back in Rosarito, MX when I met a rather large yankee puffing on what he thought was a genuine Cuban cigar. As we talked and smoked, he scoffed at all those stupid jerks who pay so much for Cuban cigars when he paid just $5 US for what he believed was a Cohiba. My-oh-my, how he savored his cheap fauxhiba!
I'll never forget it. He was so proud of his purchase, but I couldn't take my eyes off the band - to the trained eye, clearly counterfeit. But I didn't have the heart...or the courage ...to tell him he was smoking a fake. As soon as he "stubbed out" his stogie and left, I picked it out of the ashtray, removed the band, and added it to don TJ's collection of glass-top fauxhibas!
True Story, Amigos!
Jay, Ray Jay
sigpicVaya con Dios, Amigos! - don TJ and the Coros
Haha! No doubt, amigo. I know many, many americanos who claimed to have smoked at least one fine puro. Problem is, many were likely counterfeit.
Why, I remember a few years back in Rosarito, MX when I met a rather large yankee puffing on what he thought was a genuine Cuban cigar. As we talked and smoked, he scoffed at all those stupid jerks who pay so much for Cuban cigars when he paid just $5 US for what he believed was a Cohiba. My-oh-my, how he savored his cheap fauxhiba!
I'll never forget it. He was so proud of his purchase, but I couldn't take my eyes off the band - to the trained eye, clearly counterfeit. But I didn't have the heart...or the courage ...to tell him he was smoking a fake. As soon as he "stubbed out" his stogie and left, I picked it out of the ashtray, removed the band, and added it to don TJ's collection of glass-top fauxhibas!
True Story, Amigos!
Jay, Ray Jay
That is an excellent point. And people wouldn't need to go to effort of faking bands when they could use the very plausible excuse that that a friend of a friend (you how these stories go) took the bands of to take them thru customs on his way from uk (for example but could say anywhere). They could just sell smokes from any store in America!
This so called grey market in America of Cuban cigars could actually have been internal sales all along! Oh the irony, that thought has tickled me
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