jimbud wrote:Yeah, right. The reason I used ISOM instead of Cuban was to show disrespect to the country or its cigars. You got me. I bet that really stung them. I didn't use Cuban because I thought it might be discourteous to the owners of a forum to do so unless they had specifically invited a discussion of Cuban cigars. I realize buying and selling are different than discussing them, but whatever. Kind of like uttering "MacBeth" inside the theatre.
But, TG, other than that, your info was very helpful. Thanks.
LOL. You posted in a 5 page long thread that is blatantly a discussion about Cuban cigars, where they are mentioned many times by name and origin, but yet didn't call them Cuban as not to be discourteous to the owners of this site? Laughable. By your own explanation, you simply posting in this thread would be discourteous.
Anyway, it's ridiculously silly term which has long since outlived it's usefulness. Don't take it too hard, most people use the term when starting out.
BTW - wanted to add that when I was speaking of the first three letters of the box codes and how sometimes the same cigars are made at different factories, a change of codes from month to month does not necessarily indicate a change in factories. It's not uncommon now, with the current coding system, for a single factory to get a new code each month, even if they are still producing the same cigar they were last month. There is also speculation that multiple factory codes can be issued to the same factory for the same month for different cigar marques/ vitolas.
Yeah, it's kludgey, no one has figured the new system out yet.