Re: Are figurados more enjoyable?
- From: "Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:10:49 +0000
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:28:25 +0100, Ed Fnord wrote:
Alex W <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you look at dry-cured Dutch cigars, they are pretty much
what you'd expect to see in any smokeshop 100 years ago: not
terribly pretty, though.
Before humidification was invented? ;-)
Yup.
Seriously -- if you ever trawl antique fairs or antiques shops,
do take a closer look at those old humidors. If you're lucky,
they will have cedar drawers of a lining of tin or lead. Most
will have thin veneer on the inside of the doors and the outside
of the drawers, meaning the box could never have been properly
humidified or the veneer would have come off. The best a
Victorian gent could have hoped for is a slab of chalk.
(I tried a couple of small Dutch cigars and didn't care for
them, BTW. They reminded me too much of American "little
cigars" and a bit of cigarettes. Maybe the bigger Dutch
cigars are better?)
Each to his own taste. As yard cigars or for a quick in-between
smoke they are fine. Also, many of those Dutch or Swiss
shortfiller cigars use tobacco from Brazil or Sumatra which is
fairly unfamiliar to the Anglo-Saxon palate.
.
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