unless i’m missing something, you’re still linking to a different video than the one you’re describing. i found the correct video here in the comments…
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OK, duly noted, cigar factory floor sweepings smell like shit, whereas a real Cuban cigar smells like . . . what? Freshly baked bread? Summer rain on hot pavement? Chanel No. 5? Nope.
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Americans learning once again there is no substitute for socialism.
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“but it smells like a wet campfire…” In other words, just like any other cigar ever made.
Mind you,m the stench of them reminds me more of someone lighting a dried goat doot and inhaling it but to each their own I suppose…
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My first thought was ‘So that’s what a cigar load looks like!’
I took a 3 week trip to Cuba in February. It was odd that I never once got offered illegal drugs (unlike nearly every other Caribbean and Central American country I have visited), but nearly every day I got offered Cuban cigars on the street that purported to be the real thing. Some of them even had the official Cuban government stamp, but I’m pretty sure they were all fakes. I don’t smoke cigars so I can’t be sure, but the real thing in legal shops were reasonably priced, so I’m guessing that the only point in selling them illegally was to profit from inferior or counterfeit products.
well the prestige is that they are a banned commodity in the US. I mean they’re good, but I can easily find far better cigars for the same price.
Mind you if you’re on vacation in Cube the cigars are cheap and plentiful.
Makes you wonder if - when Cubans start visiting the US in large numbers - they’ll expect to be offered counterfeit Big Macs.
He actually noted that the smell of warm ash and burning wood was quite nice, not bad at all, and better than the “skunk aroma” of a really cheap cigar.
My parents just took a trip to Cuba, and while neither smokes, they both noted the similar hype around Cuban rum, with many Cubans predicting that their coveted rum reserves would be hugely popular in America once the embargo is lifted.
i’d be more excited about all those antique cars.
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Actually looks like the fixed video is still wrong, you linked to the Bolivar one which looks good, but Grey_Devil in the comments here found the Montecristo one you seemed to be referring to (“wet campfire” and all).
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Warm ash/burning campfire does NOT equal the charming scent of a wet, dead former fire.
I’d even disagree about the burning wood part as a moment’s observation will show a singular lack of crowded conditions on the downwind side of most campfires.
The only difference I note between a cheap cigar and an expensive cigar is the price. Both stink like burning waste pits. I suspect cognitive dissonance provides the “esthetic appeal” of the expensive one as most people if asked, would be uncomfortable setting fire to a five dollar bill and thus need to pretend it is a sublime experience until they can convince themselves.
I’d further opine that in a real double blind test, most “experts” couldn’t tell a fifty cent “Aroma del Bano” from their twenty-five dollar “Basura del Mar” stogie. Just as a lot of wine “experts” can’t tell five buck plonk from $500 Chateau Oubliette '94 in controlled tests.
I was expecting him to find a tiny Cuban cigar inside of much lower capacity:
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Or, alternatively, there’s the possibility that there’s people out there who actually, genuinely enjoy something that you do not – like a cigar – and have spent enough time taking pleasure from them and becoming well-versed in their nuances that they can, indeed, tell a cheap cigar filled with floor-sweepings from a fine, genuine Cuban. Or a fine vintage wine from Bartles & Jaymes.
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Strangely, I find the innards of cigars piled up on my front steps very often, apparently the local urban youth enjoy dissecting and reviewing the quality of cigars just like this guy (although they seem to do it in the middle of the night, which can’t be very good for video quality.)
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[quote=“jimp, post:24, topic:77323”]the stench of them reminds me more of someone lighting a dried goat doot and inhaling it[/quote]…Have you been reading Roald Dahl’s autobiography?
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as far as I am concerned a real Cuban has mustard, cheese, pickles, ham, and pork in it, and it’s all pressed together.
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You’d think they might at least stick to flammable ingredients 
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A perfectly reasonable way to see it. I have tried cigars, cheap ones and ones that were supposedly “good”, and they all tasted pretty bad to me. So I guess it’s an acquired taste, but one I don’t see the benefit in acquiring.
I think cigars wouldn’t be such an issue if the smell wasn’t so strong and pervasive-- you’re burning a lot more plant matter than a cigarette, it fills a room pretty quickly, so people who don’t like it are forced to put up with it.
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