Alcohol, drinks, beer, rom, alcohol...

[Dan]

Chick With A Dick.

[gbranton]

We used to have a drive up liquor store back in the day. Only in the South

When I got my first car, we had two of them in my home town. Not only would they sell you a bottle of liquor but for a few dollars extra they would sell you cups of mixer and ice, or just sell you mixed drinks out the window, LOL.

[gbranton]

I have to pick my eyebrows later on, and that's the worst pain ever.........

In other words, you have never felt any REAL pain, not even a hint of it if you think that shit hurts.

Feel free to start a "what's the worst pain you have ever felt" thread.

[chefcraig]

We used to have a drive up liquor store back in the day. Only in the South

We still have one on Sunrise Blvd in Fort Lauderdale, near 31st avenue. It's been there forever, and is named Troy's.

[DONNIEP]

We still have one on Sunrise Blvd in Fort Lauderdale, near 31st avenue. It's been there forever, and is named Troy's.

Ours was called Pack & Sack. Back in the 80s this county was dry and you had to go across the river into the next one to get booze. And right over the bridge was a little white building - drive up only - and you could buy your liquor. Things were a lot more laid back then.

[gbranton]

Things were a lot more laid back then.

Including me.












I was laid a LOT more back then.

[DONNIEP]

And on that note it's time for the first cold beer of the evening. Nothing but the cheap stuff tonite - Natural Ice. Gonna need the heavy duty TP in the morning

[PETE'S BROTHER]

In Arizona, you can stop at the Circle K on damn near EVERY corner

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[ZahZoo]

i gotta stop at the circle k on the corner on my way home, football!!

Count your blessings... I live in a dry county. That nearest wet corner is 48.6 miles from my front door.

[vandeleur]

What the fuck is a dry county , man that's bad unless your referring to the type of cider you all prefer

[ZahZoo]

In some states... like here in Arkansas they've voted to not allow alcohol sales in each individual county from retail.

They do allow permits for private clubs... mostly restaurants or country clubs, although the bible belt thugs fight those aggressively. We have 6 private clubs to go drinking at... but can't buy for home use. I have to drive across two other counties to hit a liquor store. So you plan your drinking and buy in bulk.

[lesfunk]

2.25% alcohol??

What the fuck kind of weak cider is that?

God, even the lame shit in the US is 5%. Guess the Canucks still have the best cider.


This is what I get 1/4 mile up the road from My house.
B.F. Clyde's Hard cider 14% Alcohol. It will fuck you up.



Growers has been Canada's Cider since 1927.
It contains 7% alcohol and is made with 100% all natural flavours.
Perfect for any occasion, serve Growers over ice and you won't be disappointed.

http://www.growerscider.com

This is what I get 1/4 mile up the road from my house. B.F. Clyde's Hard Cider 14% alcohol

[Seshmeister]

In some states... like here in Arkansas they've voted to not allow alcohol sales in each individual county from retail.

They do allow permits for private clubs... mostly restaurants or country clubs, although the bible belt thugs fight those aggressively. We have 6 private clubs to go drinking at... but can't buy for home use. I have to drive across two other counties to hit a liquor store. So you plan your drinking and buy in bulk.

I guess the people who enacted these laws are the same people that mainly go to restaurants and country clubs?

I'd move.

[vandeleur]

Wooah that's extreme .... I think I would move as well. Them's prehistoric rules.
Harsh if you just fancy a couple with the lads on the spur of the moment ...
The traditional sneaky one

[vandeleur]

You guys who are liking the cider ever drink snake bite . It's half lager ,half cider all hangover ?

[Seshmeister]

Wooah that's extreme .... I think I would move as well. Them's prehistoric rules.
Harsh if you just fancy a couple with the lads on the spur of the moment ...
The traditional sneaky one

The big irony is that I bet the people that brought in the laws spent a lot of time talking about living in a land of freedom...

[DONNIEP]

The county I live in is still technically a dry county. However, the individual towns are allowed to hold a vote to determine if the people want alcohol sales in their town. And at this point most of the towns allow alcohol sales. But back in the day you'd have to go "over the river" to get your beer or liquor. Or you'd go to the bootlegger and you could buy it from him - liquor that is, in small quantities. I miss that old guy, old black dude and he'd sell us a couple of pints of hooch back when we were teenagers

[vandeleur]

Yeah , funny how that usually works out

[ZahZoo]

I guess the people who enacted these laws are the same people that mainly go to restaurants and country clubs?

I'd move.

Nah... The general harebrained mindset against alcohol sales today seems to be centered around the stupid belief that if you limit sales/access then the troubles associated with it are somehow minimized. It's still heavily influenced by the protestant religious outfits here. Current laws only allow a referendum to change things every 4 years and you need 38% of registered voters to petition it onto a ballot... tough number to find with all the churches aggressively fighting against it.

The history of how this came to be is interesting to say the least... dates back to the 1750's and European settlers trying to limit alcohol from the local Indians in the area. 1831 Temperance movement struck down former Spanish laws almost prohibiting alcohol. Then by the 1870's the Women's Christian Temperance movement took root... Then the legislature tried limiting it further through racial angles requiring a majority of white voters to vote to change alcohol laws.

Got real interesting in the 1920's when the Women's Temperance formed a strange alliance with the KKK and once again pushed through further prohibition laws... plus shut down saloons and stills across the state with KKK gangs. In 1933 the state went wet but by 1935 they enacted wet/dry option that each county can enact. The last update to that was in 1993 with the 4 year referendum and 38% petition crap.

Currently I think we're at 43 dry -vs- 32 wet counties... so the tide is slowly shifting. Private clubs are on the increase too.

Bottom line... blame the whole mess on women, Methodists and the KKK...

Forget moving... I just drive down to the store about twice a months and pick up provisions.

[Dan]

Chick With A Dick.

FFS,Noone Is Going To say Anything About This?

[ashstralia]

Wow! That's some interesting history there, Zah.

We have dry 'camps' in central oz, but it's more about minimizing probs in the indigenous communities. There are still people out there who live like they did 1000 years ago... I'm not saying it's good or bad; that's just how it is.

[Nitro Express]

Why rules and laws exist is so people can have fun breaking them.

[Hardrock69]

Here is some good news on a related note.

In Kentucky, a recent Federal court decision made it illegal to ban sales of alcohol in grocery stores.

It is unconstitutional to allow some retail outlets to sell alcohol, but to not allow others to do so.

Zahzoo? You oughta forward this to your local congressman or state representative who is on the side of the liquor interests. They cannot legally ban some retailers in some counties from selling it, while allowing other retailers in other counties to do so.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...e-liquor-sales

A federal court ruling against a Kentucky law prohibiting wine and liquor sales at grocery stores could energize efforts to loosen similar regulations in Tennessee, business groups said Tuesday.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II found the neighboring state’s law unconstitutional by preventing grocery and convenience stores from selling liquor and wine but allowing other retailers to do so. The judge said the 70-year-old law violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Jarron Springer, president of the Tennessee Grocers & Convenience Store Association, said the ruling in Kentucky should serve as a “wake-up call to legislators that these state laws do need to change.”

Despite the ruling, Springer said it’s unlikely his group would take the state to court as business groups did in Kentucky. That’s because the neighboring state explicitly prohibits grocery stores from selling liquor — the source of its constitutional problem — while Tennessee’s simply restricts liquor and wine stores from selling other products.

Still, one more border state potentially allowing wine sales in grocery stores bolsters his group’s case as it lobbies for legislative changes, Springer said.

“Obviously that does impact any state that is starting to take a look at state laws and how they’re written,” he said. “It would be the sixth state of the eight that border us that allow these types of sales. Tax dollars are going to leave our state from our northern border and go up there.”

Josh Hammond, president of The Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association, said it’s too early to tell exactly what impact the ruling will have on the debate in Tennessee, where liquor sellers have been battling efforts to loosen restrictions for years.

“There’s no question that it concerns me,” Hammond said. “The big thing is that anything that happens at the state level, it does have repercussions throughout the whole country. And states do take notice of this.”

Hammond, who co-owns a liquor and wine store in Memphis, refuted the idea that the ruling might result in luring Tennessee residents, and their money, to grocery stores in Kentucky.

“If they want to scream about people leaving the state of Tennessee to go shopping, that is absolutely not the case on this side of the state,” he said.

Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, who has sponsored previous legislation that would loosen liquor laws in the state, was heartened by the Kentucky ruling. He plans to introduce a bill once again in the next session.

“I think that sends a huge signal for the possible passage for legislation here in Tennessee,” he said.

[Nitro Express]

Alcohol exists so we can entertain ourselves laughing at the drunks.

[Hardrock69]

Of course! That has been it's purpose ever since beer was invented 5,000 years ago....

[VHscraps]

You guys who are liking the cider ever drink snake bite . It's half lager ,half cider all hangover ?

About 25 years ago I worked in a bar in Maidenhead, Berks, and the Snakebite was popular with the ladies. Rowdy types. They also used to order up something else called a Witches Tit. Can't for the life of me remember what the ingredients were, but I have to say I was sexually harassed after they had consumed a few of those ...

[Seshmeister]

Bottom line... blame the whole mess on women, Methodists and the KKK...

You can say that about most things...

I constantly get asked why I keep pointing out the silliness of Christianity, everyone should be left to believe whatever stuperstition they want.

Problem is that the next thing you know they've taken away your booze and porn and are bullying your neighbor for being a homo.

[Seshmeister]

About 25 years ago I worked in a bar in Maidenhead, Berks, and the Snakebite was popular with the ladies. Rowdy types. They also used to order up something else called a Witches Tit. Can't for the life of me remember what the ingredients were, but I have to say I was sexually harassed after they had consumed a few of those ...

I only went there once, nearly wrote a blues song about that night...

Woke up one morning, pain in my head
Oh fuck I've left my plane ticket
In an off license in Maidenhead...

Stressful day...

[vandeleur]

Snake bite ... Half stella and half scrumpy jack cider , killer drink .... Makes you bark at the moon and wipes your memory.
Scrapes , Woman drinking snakey they sound like classy ladies

[Nickdfresh]

I always thought it was weird to have such a hard time just buying the archetypical "six pack" while in Pennsylvania. It seems they always want you to purchase a whole case a beer...

[DONNIEP]

Snake bite ... Half stella and half scrumpy jack cider , killer drink .... Makes you bark at the moon and wipes your memory.
Scrapes , Woman drinking snakey they sound like classy ladies

So it's beer and alcoholic apple cider? Sounds like an odd combination. Good stuff? Hell, I'd drink it just because Scrumpy Jack is such a cool name

[ZahZoo]

Here is some good news on a related note.

In Kentucky, a recent Federal court decision made it illegal to ban sales of alcohol in grocery stores.

It is unconstitutional to allow some retail outlets to sell alcohol, but to not allow others to do so.

Zahzoo? You oughta forward this to your local congressman or state representative who is on the side of the liquor interests. They cannot legally ban some retailers in some counties from selling it, while allowing other retailers in other counties to do so.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...e-liquor-sales

That is some good ammo... I've discussed how silly the current laws here are with several folks involved with local politics. The area I live in has a huge tourist industry due to the lake and river. About 9 months out of the year people with boats and RV's stream into town from all over Arkansas, southern Missouri and the Memphis area... all hauling in beer, wine and liquor purchased somewhere else. A half-cent sales tax would probably generate several millions of dollars a year if booze was sold locally. But even that isn't enough of a selling point going up against the religious elements.

As someone told me shortly after moving here... small town life is great, but you have to find a balance in what you can tolerate from your neighbors and how much they'll tolerate of you.

It's not really that much of an inconvenience having to travel to the big city to buy booze. You just have to plan for it. As a parent though there is a downside to this... having all these households stocked up with a case or two of beer at anytime plus wine and huge bottles of liquor presents too easy of access for teenagers wanting to spread their wings. I actually had to install locks to keep my kids out of my stuff... as had several other families as well.

[Seshmeister]

Snake bite ... Half stella and half scrumpy jack cider , killer drink .... Makes you bark at the moon and wipes your memory.
Scrapes , Woman drinking snakey they sound like classy ladies

It was always with blackcurrant cordial back in the day giving a purple drink - very popular with the goth girls for some reason.

[Seshmeister]

As a parent though there is a downside to this... having all these households stocked up with a case or two of beer at anytime plus wine and huge bottles of liquor presents too easy of access for teenagers wanting to spread their wings. I actually had to install locks to keep my kids out of my stuff... as had several other families as well.

That's a good point, the law of unforeseen consequences.

Just in general booze is much cheaper and people are richer than when I was a teenager so there is a lot more booze around.

It's the same with video games, porn and blowjobs teenagers get everything too easy these days.

Back in the day you really had to work hard to get a hold of all that stuff which probably stopped us hurting ourselves.

[VHscraps]

Snake bite ... Half stella and half scrumpy jack cider , killer drink .... Makes you bark at the moon and wipes your memory.
Scrapes , Woman drinking snakey they sound like classy ladies

Haven't actually tried it for years, but yes, it does the trick if you need a bit of oblivion pronto - especially with a decent proper cider. Strong, but not that cheapo chemical stuff that alkies drink.

I think those girls were forerunners of those you see more often now in the UK, out on the streets and intent on getting blotto.

[vandeleur]

Snakey with blackcurrant , sounds awful.
Snakebite when I was a children
was what everyone drank at the Mayfair rock night in Newcastle , that's when i first tried it.
Those were the days , when the men and had long hair and the woman tattoos

[DONNIEP]

You guys ever have Black Velvet? Guiness and champagne? Good stuff.

[vandeleur]

Yip love it , except we have cider instead of champagne. Never tried it with champagne .. Fucking expensive I expect.

Never realised you could use cider as mixer so much. Not bad when your mixer is 6% strong lol

[DONNIEP]

Yip love it , except we have cider instead of champagne. Never tried it with champagne .. Fucking expensive I expect.

Never realised you could use cider as mixer so much. Not bad when your mixer is 6% strong lol

Nah, you just use affordable champagne. Back before I had a kid that was my Sunday morning brunch drink of choice - knocks a hangover right out

[vandeleur]

Problem with black velvet is it's consistency . When you flatten the cider and mix it with guinness. Its less stodgy than a full pint of Guinness and less bubbly than cider. So it goes down quicker than a kardashian on a first date .
Man you can hammer them bad boys back.