These 8 Royal Palms at Chateau de la Fuente. Who knows the story? And where do you commonly see an image of them?
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Kip Fisher
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A cigar enthusiast since 1994, I strayed into deeper involvement with the tobacco industry just before founding The Cigarmy blog in 2011. This preoccupation grew once more when I co-founded Half Ashed with Craig Schneider in February 2013. With the consolidation of The Cigarmy and Half Ashed in late 2014, you can now read my cigar reviews, news and editorial commentary here - and catch me live on every episode of the Half Ashed Cigar Podcast.
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I know! I know! Well, the common location at least.
I also recall Carlito discussing their significance but I do not recall if that story was different than the typical Cuban palm in tobacco field significance.
Is it that they’re planted in Cuban soil? Like the George Washington in London?
Well, he is in U.S. soil, but you get the point :)
I put this on the website but I am curious if the story is Fuente specific or more for Cubans as general.
Isn’t this the Cigarmy background shot?
Nope. Same farm, though…
Those are the 8 palms that were left standing after a hurricane in 1998. You see them in the sticker inside a lot of the Fuente Cigar boxes.
Also I hear Kip may get that as his next tattoo…
You got it, mang!
Those are the 8 Royal Palms that were left standing after the 1998 Hurricane. Found on the inside of the lids of a lot of the Fuente cigar box lids.
Kip will also be getting that tattoo’d on his other arm…