Stella, no matter where you drink it from, is practically flavorless. It's okay in the same way that I'll drink a Budweiser if someone hands it to me. It certainly doesn't deserve a "chalice" or the ridiculously high-brow advertising that goes into it.
I wasn't around for it but some people told me that on Sundays you'd go into a Walmart and the only thing they'd let you buy before noon on a Sunday was food, anything else they wouldn't sell. I didn't really have to put up with the whole alcohol thing since blue laws don't apply to military installations, and Sumter (where I lived unfortunately) Columbia and Charleston all have bases so most of the places I went I was set. Great thing about Korea? There's always places to get alcohol at any time of the day. Bars and clubs close when people leave, not at some arbitrary time, and there are so few cops around (and the ones that are around don't give two shits) so you can pretty much just walk around with an open beverage.
Low access, ridiculously high prices, limited selection. That's what the LCBO does for us in Ontario. Dry counties in the states are probably the only ones who have it worse than us on the continent. Question about dry counties: is booze illegal entirely in them or just illegal to sell?
Larger cities (Columbia, Charleston, Greenville) have all been able to sell beer on Sundays for a little over a decade depending on the area of town. SC has been able to serve booze on sunday in bars restaurants for as long as I can remember. Liquor stores are able to be open M-Sat 6am-7pm. The Walmart thing was totally true until about 15 years ago. Sumter also is a horrid, horrid place. We are going to be able to buy beer directly from state breweries relatively soon though. Looking forward to doing that, 3 have opened within 15 minutes from my front door.
Do bars in South Carolina still have to serve booze out of those little airplane bottles? That's the way it was when I lived there.
We have really restricted hours here for buying booze from alcohol retailers / bottle stores. Generally, nowhere is open before 9am during the week (8am for Saturdays) and everywhere is closed by 5pm. Also, no legal booze sales on Sundays, anywhere in this province (possibly nationwide but I haven't looked into that) - as a result, the illegal / unlicensed taverns (known as shebeens) do a roaring trade on weekends, but that is more on a national level than just specifically in KwaZulu-Natal. Bars are allowed to legally sell booze on Sundays though, but not before midday. Many bars and restaurants are closed on Sundays. Also, virtually no restaurants carry anything other than SABMiller's brands. Booze is really expensive on average here, thanks to the Government taxing the ever-loving fuck put of it (at least 40% of the overall price is the Government's fucking "Sin Tax" levy. Cunts.) Don't let religion fuck around with Government laws (the one about no booze on Sundays has been in place for over half a century, save for one year in the mid 2000's when it was removed and then put back into place because they fucking could I guess) I miss booze.
I went to college in Upstate SC, and you could not buy beer on Sunday. However, a convenience store in NC was only about 25 minutes away, and you could buy beer on Sunday there. We knew this, but didn't know that Sunday sales couldn't start until Noon or something. So, one Sat night at about 1 a.m., we run out of beer and come up with the bright idea to road trip up to where ever the nearest NC convenience store might be. Four college dudes, half-inebriated stroll into the store, waltz over to the cooler and plop several 12 packs up on the counter. Clerk: Sorry, we can't sell that to you. Us: Aw, come on. You can sell on Sunday in NC, right? Clerk: Not until Noon. Most of Us: Dang. Oh well. Let's head back, I guess. Me: Alright guys, I'll put these back and be out in a minute. < all leave, I return everything but bring up a 6 pack - I am not driving, and likely the most drunk > Me: Come on, man, just sell me this. Clerk: I can't. It's against the law, and I'll lose my job. Me: Come on, buddy. Nobody will know. < I "smoothly" take out an "extra" 5 dollar bill and try to hand it to him without looking. > One of my buddies has just walked back in to see what's taking me so long just as this happens: Clerk: < Flashes me his badge. > I'm a cop. Me: Oh shit. < runs > My buddy still gives me hell about trying to bribe and off-duty cop with 5 whole dollars to buy a 6 pack in NC. Good times.
They dropped that in 04 or 05. Right at midnight too. It had a huge change on the bar scene for a good year or so. You had people used to a standard unit of booze per drink, which combined with people learning how to pour, led to a whole lotta drunk people. It was chaos, especially at the real "collegey" bars, people used to a 8oz cup with 1.5 oz of booze did not adapt to anywhere between .5oz and 6-7oz being put in any given drink. We still sell them a liquor stores for smuggling purposes. Rush, hows your rock doing these days?
I'm not sure I'm cool enough to know what you're talking about . . . a) if you're talking about the one on Paris Mountain, I was not a KA, so I dunno. Although, I did set the woods on fire up there one night, with some ill-timed flings of fireworks. b) if you're talking about the band, then MY ROCK IS FUCKING SPOT ON, BROTHER! Just finished a leg of the tour in Europe, kicking ass, and enjoying the recent induction into the RnR Hall of Fame.
I was assuming Clemson, thus Howards rock. I'm now going to assume Bob Jones due to Paris Mountain being near Greenville. Rush does indeed rock.
It's much different in Oklahoma now. Basically, no full strength beer can be sold cold. There are no coolers in any liquor stores and the beer is all sold at room temperature. This requires careful planning on the part of the consumer. One gets very good at calculating the time needed to cool down a six pack in the freezer. 3.2% beer can be purchased at gas stations and grocery stores and can be purchased cold. Wine, full strength beer, and liquor can only be purchased at liquor stores. Bars are just like bars anywhere else in the country (except Utah). State law does not allow liquor stores to be open on Sunday and liquor stores must close at 9 pm. Refrigerated beer can pass through the state but it cannot get off the truck. Because of this, many craft brewers refuse to sell their beer in Oklahoma, as they insist that their beer be refrigerated from the brewery to the consumer. As a result, there is no New Belgium, O'Dell's, or Oskar Blues beer in Oklahoma (three of my favorites from when I was in college in Colorado). It's a pain in the ass but after a while I guess you get used to it. Oklahoma has, next to Utah, the worst liquor laws in the U.S.
I can't believe what I just read. That is some of the weirdest, dumbest and most unnecessary bullshit I have ever heard that has to do with booze regulations. Not to open a can of worms, but is it church influence that quarterbacks this nonsense?
It for sure was here. At this point I don't think its so much church sponsored, its more to the fact that the majority of state politicians tend to be from a generation where that was the norm. You know, the best answer for everything "because we've always done it that way."
Partially. The no booze sales on Sunday and 9 pm closing time definitely is influenced by the church. Oklahoma is one of the most religious and conservative states in the U.S. The line between church and state here is blurred at times and I cannot believe that there haven't been more lawsuits concerning such (I apologize if that's too political). The sale of warm full-strength beer has more to do with drunk driving, or so I've heard. The thought behind it is that people are not likely to drink warm beer and drive at the same time. This makes no sense at all, as a pint is more easily consumed while driving, it better hidden, and can be purchased at the same place. These laws will eventually get changed but the legislature is full of idiots who are out of touch with reality. There is a definite movement with younger people to change these ridiculous laws but that has yet to be done. I forgot to mention, there are special taxes on selling full strength beer in Oklahoma and importing it into the state. Because of this, all of the major beer companies; miller coors, anheuser busch (inbev), etc. have breweries in Oklahoma that only brew 3.2% beer and that beer is only sold in Oklahoma. None of these brands are carried in liquor stores, as liquor stores do not sell 3.2% beer. If you're drinking one of these beers in Oklahoma, you've purchased it cold (at a convenience store or grocery store) and are drinking 3.2 beer. It's absolutely ridiculous. I haven't had a coors in God knows how long. I refuse.
I'm not entirely sure about the beer strength thing here in Indiana but we don't have Sunday sales either. For those in the middle of the state is probably a bigger issue if they forget to plan or get too drunk on Saturday to reload their beer fridge. I live about 5 miles from the Michigan line so if I have to I can drive across the line and pay extra for Michigan beer. They have some sort of deposit on the cans and a higher tax I think than what we do. We've tried to pass a bill several times to allow Sunday sales but it keeps getting smacked down. Assholes.
It's funny how it differs so wildly from state to state. My husband travels a lot for his job and tells me about his adventures getting beer to drink in his hotel room (not to mention the variations in cost). In Virginia, beer and wine can be sold anywhere, and it can be kept cold in the store. Liquor has to be sold at the state run ABC. ABC used to be closed on Sundays, but a few years ago some select ABCs could open on Sunday and then last year all of them open on Sunday. A lot of people were upset, thinking that it would encourage alcoholics to be drunk all the time and beating their wives and children. The governor has been pushing to privatize the sale of liquor, but has met with resistance - same reasons as above and adding in concerns about liquor stores on every corner and shifty people hanging around them.
Replace "Michigan" with "Wisconsin" and you've got Minnesota's situation. I love shooting matches on Sundays in Wisconsin because that means I can pick up a cold case of beer at a gas station on the way home. I do it just because I can.
Yeah, these Indiana no sales on Sunday stuff is bullshit. Then again, I only live about 20 minutes from the Illinois border, so if I get desperate I can always make a quick drive. When I lived in Lafayette, though, it sucked. For multiple reasons, but this was a major one.
In Australia the only two days of the year when you can't buy alcohol at any time are Christmas day and Good Friday and even then the bar opens at midnight. As for takeaways I think it's Eleven for most places on a Sunday and Nine every other day and to be completely honest if you run out of piss before then it's shitty planning most of the time.
So I just discovered that Sharon Den Adel, Simone Simons, Floor Jansen, and Anneke Van Giersbergen are all Dutch. I think that settles it. I need to find me a Dutch woman.