If I hand you a cigar, tell you it is Cuban, and you have a young, impressionable mind, you'll be more inclined to enjoy the cigar. This is why blind taste tests are so important, you take the pretension factor out of the equation altogether.
Oh goat boffer, of course you'll be inclined to enjoy it more. And why shouldn't you? Smoking for pleasure is not a strictly objective exercise and it is not as unidimensional as the mere "taste" of a cigar. When you smoke a Cuban cigar, you are not just combusting leaf and measuring the byproducts. You're meditating on the tradition of the Cuban cigar and the history of tobacco in the New World. In locking in on the "meme" theory, you're chasing a narrow goal and have devised a fallacious test in an attempt to reveal and discredit this prejudicial mechanism on the assumption that it is by definition, evil.
Does that which has no sensory effect have meaning? Sure.
I hand you two bars of soap. One is made by the industrial giant Procter and Gamble while the other is made by company that supports Fair Trade and is made by indigenous peoples in Tanzania. Both are soap. Both work. But I'll feel a lot better about myself buying and using the Fair Trade soap.
If the enjoyment of cigars was strictly premised on an equation of some sort, I sure as hell wouldn't be spending my money or my time doing it.
And as for different from what cigar...I thought I had implied as much in my post. I was speaking of the specific menu of cigars that had led to my developing an ennui for Habanos over the preceding weeks.
Now pull it out of ol' Roscoe, smoke an unbanded cigar and breeeeeeeeeeeeath.
Wilkey
What do you mean by "Fair Trade?" ???
Are you sure that your Tanzania soap was manufactured not using child labor? How about the equal treatment of men and women in the Tanzania work place? Yep, they do that in Tanzania all the time.
Oh and I'll bet the management structure of this Tanzania soap company doesn't use intimidation, bribes and threats of or actual physical abuse either.......
While this whole "Fair Trade" is a real nice touchy-feely, save-the-world concept, (socialism) it's basically a bunch of crap that doesn't work, go ask the former USSR or the Communists in China. :laugh:
Have you ever read the story about the two immigrants (Mr. Procter and Mr. Gamble) who started that company in 1837? It's a truly moving story of success by two hard working men who were forward thinking innovators that weren't looking to the government for handouts. Did you know that P&G established a profit sharing plan for its employees in 1887? This was LONG before many companies did things like this for their workers during the industrial revolution.
I don't know about you but I feel much more comfortable about myself buying a product from a fine, established company that has a proven history of success, responsibility and oh yeah, treating their workers properly for you "union" folks
that is right here in the good ole USA (they started and are still located in Cincinnati, Ohio).
I'd also feel a whole lot better about myself buying a Procter & Gamble product that indirectly benefits jonesy and probably quite a few other CP brothers with my purchase than some third world scammers who more likely than use child labor and abuse women during the manufacture of their "Fair Trade" soap.
Wasn't the original topic here something about when not to pass a "Cuban" cigar? ???
1. DO NOT "put" a Cuban cigar in a pass that you "took" from a pass when you don't have 100% confidence in the integrity of the person who originally put that cigar.
2. KNOW YOUR SOURCES. "hildagohabanos" is NOT a good one nor is any other one who claims they save you shipping costs because their company's president is a pilot who ships the cigar himself on his private plane.
