!!! When I go to NY for the summer I grumble about having to go to a liquor store for wine. We have beer and wine in grocery stores here.
Literally never occurred to me that there could be grocery stores without a liquor section. How weird.
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EpicTangent - Jan 29, 2020 7:05:52 am PST #15896 of 30019
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Jessica - Jan 29, 2020 7:11:58 am PST #15897 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NY has beer in grocery stores but not wine or liquor. And liquor stores don't carry beer.
Steph L. - Jan 29, 2020 7:14:14 am PST #15898 of 30019
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Ohio has wine and beer in grocery stores, but not liquor. I'm pretty sure liquor stores have them all, BUT -- and this is key -- we go to Northern Kentucky to buy alcohol because it's cheaper there.
t edit By "we," I mean cheap-asses like me who live in southwestern Ohio. I assume someone wouldn't drive from Cleveland to Northern Kentucky just for some cheap bourbon.
meara - Jan 29, 2020 7:16:33 am PST #15899 of 30019
Wait beer but not wine? So weird. I've lived in/been to places where liquor was at separate stores but beer and wine were available, or where it was all in separate stores or all in all stores...but usually beer and wine were treated the same. Weird!
Gris - Jan 29, 2020 7:46:09 am PST #15900 of 30019
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They changed from beer only to beer-and-wine in TN while I was there. It was big. Still needed a special store for liquor. Minnesota is nothing-in-the-grocery.
In Brazil, everything is in the grocery store. It's nice.
-t - Jan 29, 2020 7:46:23 am PST #15901 of 30019
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There must be, like, historical reasons for all these little quirks, huh? That would be interesting to trace.
I was pretty irritated when Safeway wouldn't let me buy wine at 5am because the liquor closing hours were 2am - 8 am or something. And the "blue laws" in Baton Rouge when I was a kid were pretty baroque but definitely included alcohol - the aisles would get roped off on Sundays
Jessica - Jan 29, 2020 7:48:40 am PST #15902 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NYC used to have laws against serving alcohol in restaurants before noon, which was kind of a bummer if you went to brunch at 11 and wanted a mimosa. Not sure if that law actually changed or is just no longer enforced.
DXMachina - Jan 29, 2020 7:58:03 am PST #15903 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Rhody has no alcoholic beverages of any kind in supermarkets. Very annoying.
Calli - Jan 29, 2020 8:02:14 am PST #15904 of 30019
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In NC we can buy beer and wine in grocery stores (although there are specialty stores for the fancy stuff). But liquor is all sequestered in "ABC" stores. They've loosened the blue laws, so you can buy your grocery booze on Sunday morning, but the ABC stores are still closed all Sunday. Because you only offend your deity of choice if your drink is more than 20% alcohol, I guess.
Steph L. - Jan 29, 2020 8:06:10 am PST #15905 of 30019
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But liquor is all sequestered in "ABC" stores.
The first time we went to Topsail for vacation, we had no idea what the ABC stores were, because all we could see on the sign was the big giant "ABC," but nothing that indicated it was a liquor store. We were half-convinced they were a chain of strip clubs trying to be discreet.