Bunhill: Cuban cigars
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Your support makes all the difference.AS WE now know only too well, Christopher Columbus was absolutely Politically Incorrect. Yet tomorrow night some defiant souls are due to celebrate the very pits of his incorrectness: the way he - or rather two of his chaps whom he sent into the Cuban jungle - discovered cigars.
The party at Greens, whose owner, Simon Parker-Bowles, is what they call a 'patron fumeur', is being organised by Simon Chase of Hunter & Frankau, which imports Cuban cigars. The shameless participants in what promises to be a truly capitalist orgy will be smoking Cohibas, Cuba's most expensive products, which range in price from pounds 5 to pounds 15.
Yet these cigars were invented by none other than Che Guevara and were originally produced in his honour by his great friend and admirer, Fidel Castro. Strange, the vagaries of Political Correctness.
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