[cgbg]

The pattern on these threads is that the “hoax” posters create straw men and then proudly knock them down....

The literature and now videos and podcasts on this topic has so much detail—but as with anything else if you don’t do the work then you have no clue.

I run into this in another one of my hobbies—Cuban cigars.

The average person (including cigar shop owners and employees) has a series of myths they have been taught over the years.

Almost all of them are wrong.

The number of folks who understand Cuban cigars in depth is very small as a percentage of the population—but they are still a large number spread around the world.

[RoosterRedux]

Interesting what you say about cigars. I used to be a cigar lover (still love them from a distance).

I am the rankest of novices. Used to keep a box of Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real in my humidor because Churchill loved them.