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No, the belief that all fakes are going to taste awful is a fallacy.
Some fakes DO taste dreadful, but some are actually really good tasting cigars. I've had some fake Cuban cigars that I knew were fake from moment one, but I smoked them anyway, and for one of them, I wish I knew where it came from or what it really was so I could get more of them because, it might not have been Cuban, but they were dammed tasty. Some ran between decent and "just there", some were downright awful.
Many of us have knowingly smoked fake Cuban cigars just for the heck of it, only to be greeted by a rather good cigar.
Plus, if you make a good tasting fake, you get repeat businuess and unknowing people buy more from you. A bad tasting one, not so much.
Not many barber pole torpedos out there, I wonder if you ended up with a Gurkha Enigma with a Kohiba band.
