Minnesota Thing...Liquor Ban Still In Effect.

Cannot buy liquor in Texas on Sunday because God. You can buy beer and wine after noon. I have never seen a grocery store carry liquor.

They don't make a lot of sense, but the ONE purpose they serve is to keep every corner from having a "liqour and lotto!" store on it.

I've been to States with those stores on every corner. I'm fine with not adopting that bit of liberal modernity. It's not a moral question. It's just a damn eyesore. I already live in a shithole. I don't wanna make it uglier.

There's some new drug money burger franchise moving into NC apparently. And they're moving in HARD too. Sheetz. Apparently it's from Pennsylvania or something.

I'd be ok with burning every last one of them down. They will literally put 2 of the things across the road from each other. And man, they're just gaudy buildings. There's no way they're selling enough food to justify that kind of expansion.

No alcohol on Sundays in Indiana, and grocery stores and gas stations can only sell it warm. We also can't buy cars on Sunday, no fucking clue why. I hate living in this redneck hellhole

Iannis_sl said:

There's some new drug money burger franchise moving into NC apparently. And they're moving in HARD too. Sheetz. Apparently it's from Pennsylvania or something.

I'd be ok with burning every last one of them down. They will literally put 2 of the things across the road from each other. And man, they're just gaudy buildings. There's no way they're selling enough food to justify that kind of expansion.

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Yo, Sheetz is awesome. Great food in there, the staff has fancy headsets, and the ones around PA at least are always clean, classy (for PA anyway), spacious, and have the cheapest smoke prices allowed by law. And they always have a kickass variety of e-cigarette stuff. I think of them as extra large gas stations/convenience stores that happen to have decent food rather than burger joints.

Foggy_sl said:

Cannot buy liquor in Texas on Sunday because God. You can buy beer and wine after noon. I have never seen a grocery store carry liquor.

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Plano only allowed liquor in about two years ago. Also you can't get booze in a restraunt on Sunday before 10 am, and then only with food. You have to wait until noon to just get booze at the restraunt. Had to leave a brunch because of this. What the fuck is the point of brunch if you can't drink?

Blue laws are some of the weirdest shit in the US. Pennsylvania is especially fucking weird... they would change from county to county. Some businesses could sell booze, others couldn't. Some places could only sell booze between 9-5 Mon-Fri. Some counties were completely dry. Infuriating as a drunk college student.

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Famm_sl said:

I remember "blue laws" as a kid, like nothing would even be open on Sundays back in the 70's it would seem to my little kid eyes. Retail, the mall, many restaurants. Far cry from today when Thanksgiving hardly seems like a holiday if you aren't going shopping, sometimes even if you are considering the black Friday shit. This alcohol stuff sounds like a holdover. I bet those states don't mind Wal-Mart's hunting section selling ammo or the local 7-11 selling pron and scratch offs. Or maybe they do, IDK. Here in evil blue commie liberal Maryland you can get drunk while gambling and buying porn all day long.

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I think blue laws vary by county here in Maryland, too. I remember years ago when I worked in restaurants, in P.G County were weren't allowed to sell alcohol before noon on Sundays. We'd get people coming in at 10:00 or 11:00am and trying to order bloody marys and other brunch-style drinks and they'd get pissed off all the time when told they had to wait until noon. As far as I know it's still like that.

Borzak_sl said:

10 states currently ban hunting on Sunday with most of those being in the northeast like MD, CT, NJ etc.... Virginia just abolished the law last year

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Wow, didn't know that one - I'm pretty sure I did most of my hunting on Sundays...

McCheese_sl said:

I think blue laws vary by county here in Maryland, too. I remember years ago when I worked in restaurants, in P.G County were weren't allowed to sell alcohol before noon on Sundays. We'd get people coming in at 10:00 or 11:00am and trying to order bloody marys and other brunch-style drinks and they'd get pissed off all the time when told they had to wait until noon. As far as I know it's still like that.

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I know pretty much the whole Eastern Shore doesn't do it, yea - pretty much the parts of the state you can start to see Convenience Stores selling alcohol the blue laws pretty much don't exist I think. (Roughly Salisbury-ish for where I'd guesstimate the line is)

I gave up drinking hard alcohol in Portland, the only liquor store even close to my house closes at 7pm.

Chanur_sl said:

Despite California's other stupidity they did this shit correct. Walk right into your grocery store and big isles of beer, liquor, and wine 7 days a week. No shitty liquor stores on every corner, just gas stations and 7-11's.

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Yeah I'm a little surprised to hear everyone else's town beinglessliberal than mine on a thing. There are a handful of 3:30 bars and everyone else, including stores, have to shut it down by 1:30. 12:30 on Sundays. But it all opens back up and 6:00 am every day and anyone can sell pretty much anything at any time. There might be a few fringe restrictions, like no alcohol in titty bars -gotta go to Illinois for that- but that's it.

Iannis_sl said:

Sheetz.

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Nghhhhhh.... Sheetz. So fucking good. I'd give my left nut to have Sheetz here in NY. Best we can do is 7-11... and Sheetz makes 7-11 look like a backwater bodega.

Sheetz introduced me to the touch-screen ordering system, which, quite frankly, every single fast food establishment should adopt. During my dozens of stoned visits in college, they never once fucked up my order.

ValkyrieIATD_sl said:

During my dozens of stoned visits in college, they never once fucked up my order.

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Back in my McDonald's Grill-Guy days I wasconvincedthat all the mistakes were on intake! My 15 year old self thanks you for sharing your touch-screen ordering experience. It pretty much doesn't exist here. One sushi place in the city is all I've seen so far.

Bars here have to close at 2am because Jesus.

Iannis_sl said:

They don't make a lot of sense, but the ONE purpose they serve is to keep every corner from having a "liqour and lotto!" store on it.

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Those are prevalent in low-income neighborhoods irrespective of blue laws. Poor neighborhoods suck to live in and there's nothing legislation can do to change that. If they weren't shitty neighborhoods, they'd be expensive and people would complain about gentrification.

Tarrant_sl said:

Living here, the main argument isn't religion or anything (yeah right) it's "Small business owners can't afford to pay it's workers to stay open an extra day and they will lose out on business to the larger stores.

Which of course is a bullshit reason .

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The real reason why businesses lobby against abolishment of blue laws has everything to do with their costs and nothing to do with religion. If you could buy beer and wine in a grocery store, like in a civilized country, those shithole liquor and beer stores (in my city, legally required to be different places) would have to shut their doors and prices would come down. The latter, of course, is also an issue for the morality police who think more poor people would drink the devil's juice.

Don't drink so...I know when I was younger Louisiana almost lost it's highway funding for a period of time because they wouldn't up the drinking age from 18 to 21. Bars in the french quarter are open 24/7.

Mid 90's.

NEW ORLEANS, July 2- The Louisiana Supreme Court today upheld a state law that sets the minimum drinking age at 21, reversing a ruling that caused an uproar in March.

The decision keeps Louisiana from being the only state with a drinking age under 21 and preserves Federal highway money for the state.

In March the court ruled 4 to 3 that laws setting the drinking age above 18 were unconstitutional age discrimination. The ruling evoked cries of horror from groups that advocate tougher action against drunken driving and brought the threat of a loss of $17 million in Federal highway money, because the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1986 requires states to set their legal drinking age at 21.

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Ya the Feds holding transpo funding up for hostage fucked alot of the more liberal laws around the country concerning drinking. This just happened in 2005.

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