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Re: Whatcha smokin this morning?
@Itsfine said:
@Itsfine said:
@silvermouse said:
How did you like that, and does it have perique in it or does araperique mean something else?It was fine (Ross 😂).
A little different from other cigars, but definitely not Stillwell different (thank gawd). The whole "ancient Choctaw" thing I think is BS. I didn't know that the Choctaw had oak whiskey barrels 😂 😂 😂 😂. I also think that their process, as stated by themselves, is just fermentation (stacked and packed). Perdomo has been aging stuff in barrels for years.
Must have been only one leaf? Tasted mostly like an E-connie with a little wàng. I'm not going to be seeking out wheels of them and overall I think that I like regular old araparica better.
So a quick reclama here, obviously the Choctaw tribe fermented its tobacco using oak barrels. This wasn't an "ancient" process unless you consider the 18th and 19th centuries to be ancient. I just call that Peter's childhood. They received the barrels from European traders and then packed their tobacco into him after they drank the whiskey apparently.
It's not ancient, though, and it's not any different than any other fermentation process, to include packing tobacco into giant pilons.
Additionally, it appears that the choctaws made the entire cigar out of this whiskey barrel tobacco because they literally put all of their tobacco into these barrels. I'm guessing they did it to store the tobacco during the wet season, but who knows. The result was a fermentation process that went from the very top to the very bottom without having to restack tobacco because oxygen was deprived from the entire barrel, which is advantageous.
The cigar I smoked today did not taste like whiskey, wine, or any other booze. Thank goodness.
What? Now, you're using AI too?!?! ;-)
peter4jc
Re: you can't make this stuff up
Not a commentary, just tickled me... A protester in a go-kart bathtub. I applaud his ingenuity.
peter4jc
Re: Count to 1 million using only Numbers in Pictures
This last one came up for a search for 2623, I haven't found the number in the picture yet but I'm still looking...
Yakster
Re: National Felons League
It was very gracious of you since they were 13 point underdogs and then had a bunch of extra injuries during the game hahaha
Itsfine
Re: Political Discussions
Europe can wield this $8 trillion ‘sell America’ weapon as Trump reignites a trade war over his Greenland conquest ambitions
Jason Ma
By Jason Ma
Weekend Editor
“European countries own $8 trillion of US bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the
world combined,” Saravelos pointed out. “In an environment where the geoeconomic stability of the western alliance is being disrupted existentially, it is not clear why Europeans would be as willing to play this part.”
As Trump threatened to upend global trade and finance last year, Danish pension funds led the charge in reducing their dollar exposure and repatriating money back home, he said.
Such moves represented the “sell America” trade that saw investors dump dollar-denominated assets amid doubts that they would continue serving as safe havens or still deliver attractive returns.
“With USD exposure still very elevated across Europe, developments over the last few days have potential to further encourage dollar rebalancing,” Saravelos added.
Re: Political Discussions
@Amos_Umwhat said:
So, twice the size of Alaska. Very helpful, thanks.
You got me curious.
Greenland = 836,330 sq. mi.
Alaska = 665,384 sq. mi.
So, Greenland is only 25% larger.
Alaska was Seward's Folly, Greenland is Trump's Folly.
TRayB
Re: College football
Carson Beck's press conference about being a student at Miami during this run. Unbelievable.
Itsfine