>>2606099Not fake. Around the revolution, much of Cuba's cigar industry packed up and fucked off to other Caribbean islands, Spain, Central America, and the United States; those lower on the totem pole, like rollers, growers, and minor executives were gobbled up by preexisting factories and brands as cheap, skilled, highly specialized laborers, and those higher on the totem pole like company owners, blenders, and tobacco families restarted their brands elsewhere, especially when they relocated to the Caribbean or Central America.
No, the Romeo y Julieta that you'll buy in an American humidor isn't Cuban, it's Dominican, using Dominican, Central American, and American leaf. During the early days of this movement leaf grown from Cuban seed was highly prized, but so much time has passed and so many new blenders have come up in this new environment that Dominican/Ecuadorian/Nicaraguan/etc leaf is prized for its own accord. If you're buying a cigar from an American humidor, It's not going to taste a fucking thing like its Cuban equivalent, but it's going to taste good.
You should still smoke a pipe instead; it tastes better, it's cheaper, easier to store the tobacco, and its shape is less reminiscent of the human penis.
