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Bri-guy15 t1_iueu7ur wrote

The pub in my town sells growlers of beer to go, but due to some weird quirk of the liquor laws you technically have to buy food with it. So they add 25¢ and give you a little Halloween-sized bag of chips. Yesterday I got cheezies with my pale ale.

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blackbirdbluebird17 t1_iufdq1o wrote

Yeah, during the pandemic in New York open container laws were lifted so you could buy to-go cocktails — but you had to get food with them. Bars would give out little packs of pretzels or cheap chips with the drinks, we called them Cuomo chips.

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fucklawyers t1_iug347x wrote

Open container’s so fucking stupid. I lived in the woods when I hit drinking age, and you’re telling me after moving to a city now that I can actually leave my property after half of a light beer, I’m not supposed to do it with a beer?! Like to the point that off-duty cops will ruin your life with it, and your boss is gonna at a minimum call you in the office about it? They don’t even suspend that shit for downtown celebrations anymore, they have like 40 cops on fuck-your-fun patrol.

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Annoying_guest t1_iug6tfd wrote

I think what you're trying to say is "fuck the police"

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fucklawyers t1_iug8f56 wrote

I make a career of it.

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elchinguito t1_iugfxf6 wrote

I’ve lived in New Orleans my entire adult life and I’ve almost gotten ticketed in other cities more times than I can count because I completely fucking forget open container laws are a thing.

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mcgoolie_brains t1_iuggxix wrote

Born and raised... open container laws are so foreign to me. I hear there are some places that don’t have drive through daiquiri shops, but seriously who’s not adult enough to wait till they get home to pull their tape back and enjoy that sweet sweet frozen hurricane.

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simian_ninja t1_iugtyk3 wrote

I always presumed all of America had open container laws? Pretty foreign concept to me. You can alcohol at 711 in some parts of Asia….

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kalkaliy t1_iuh4nxx wrote

Hong Kong and Thailand 7/11s are justifiably their own nightclubs hahah

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kalkaliy t1_iuh4nkb wrote

Hong Kong and Thailand 7/11s are justifiably their own nightclubs hahah

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Heytavi t1_iuginmq wrote

I’m soo happy cuomo is out, sex offenders must go

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Runswithshortshorts t1_iuf1ice wrote

My stupid state does not let you fill a growler from another establishment, so I have like 5 differently branded growlers because I like beer

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fastwall t1_iufo9lm wrote

i lived in a city like that and all the craft breweries in town collaborated and designed a growler with everyones logo on it. always loved that work around.

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malwareguy t1_iuh6vr3 wrote

And helps potentially lock out any new competition.

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MOTORG0AT t1_iufcd1r wrote

You should be a Supreme Court justice.

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Runswithshortshorts t1_iufhv9x wrote

Objection! Jure staresis! Jurisprudence! Writ of certiorari!

Yeah I think you’re right, I have what it takes!

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crowngryphon17 t1_iug66hr wrote

Ha sike not after the recent justice sent writs of shit to people against his wife politically etc….

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whales-are-assholes t1_iufw6v9 wrote

That’s the one thing that I miss about drinking, it’s the beer. The taste etc. year into my sobriety, and man, sometimes it gets difficult.

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Lucha_Bat t1_iufwsue wrote

The NA-beer market has exploded in the last few years. Not just O'Doul's anymore.

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tiggertom66 t1_iug3ce3 wrote

There’s plenty of non-alcoholic beers now.

The grocery store by me even has tea made with hops. They’re a little weird, but honestly pretty good

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SisyphusRocks7 t1_iugh8gq wrote

I recommend The Athletic for NA beer. Literally better than a decent number of craft beers. Comes in a wide variety of styles.

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MarshallStoute t1_iuh03id wrote

Did you just recommend a beer vendor to someone who said they are a year sober lmao

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m1rrari t1_iuh1bgz wrote

Recommended NA (non-alcoholic) beer, since they mentioned they were a year sober but miss the taste and experience of drinking a beer. Seems reasonable.

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MarshallStoute t1_iuhiojj wrote

Ah, didn't know the abbreviation, that makes more sense.

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m1rrari t1_iuj2dfb wrote

That’s fair. Acronyms are the worst, they trade brevity for clarity. I campaign against them at work and in other spaces for this exact reason. Sadly they are going no where. NA could just have easily been a “North American” beer or something else*

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snabbbajs t1_iuhbmdx wrote

Begin drink beer again then! Cheers!

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DilbertHigh t1_iugeypr wrote

What state is that? I personally get the different ones for fun, but not by force.

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hastur777 t1_iuf6h46 wrote

Same thing happened in my state until the law was changed - breweries needed to offer food to sell carry out. So they had very silly overpriced menus - like a can of soup for $10. Technically available, just never ordered.

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m1rrari t1_iuh12dj wrote

Eh… they made $9 on a can of soup. I’m sure they are okay with it.

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NoNeedForAName t1_iuhf00l wrote

In my town a certain percentage of total sales have to be food. I always wondered how an establishment can really even control that, but I guess they make it work somehow.

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BlazinAzn38 t1_iufzsb5 wrote

The way some liquor laws used to work in Texas was bars could only sell liquor if they were a “private club” so places started selling lifetime memberships for $10 and as a new member it came with a free drink. Liquor laws don’t do anything; they’re so dumb. We also still have the laws that you can’t purchase liquor New Year’s Eve or Day so people just buy the day before Eve. Just makes stores more congested

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SavageComic t1_iug6l3q wrote

My favourite legal workaround was that when the smoking ban came in you could do it if you were an actor in a play. So this bar owner turned the back room into a black box theatre, and people would smoke in there. Said it was an improvised piece

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woundedbearhair t1_iug8ahv wrote

Some restaurants in Utah used to do stuff like that because you couldn’t just have alcohol if you were at a restaurant bar. They’d give you some bread or something like that to get around it. This one place my friends worked at would give you a slice of bread when you sat. It was just a piece of bread…on a plate…nothing else.

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big_sugi t1_iugc227 wrote

Utah also had a Zion curtain law until five years ago that required restaurants to have a barrier between bartenders and customers to prevent people from seeing alcohol poured or mixed.

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DilbertHigh t1_iugfb8p wrote

Utah sounds like it would be no fun.

I get that there are beautiful places to go and explore but there are beautiful places to go explore everywhere. I don't want to also navigate the most convoluted laws in a place that has far too many soda shoppes.

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m1rrari t1_iuh1fwu wrote

From a booze perspective, probably not.

BUT sugar isn’t a restricted substance, so there’s a lot of fun and crazy desserteries.

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woundedbearhair t1_iugiwa8 wrote

This was prior to the curtain law when you didn’t have to have one…

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withoutsomuchratinit t1_iui02k7 wrote

Well there's bread cake ... bread sorbet ... bread pudding ... or strawberry tart.

Man Strawberry tart?!

Woman Well, it's got some bread in it.

Man How much?

Woman Three (rather a lot really).

Man ... well, I'll have a slice without so much bread in it.

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Xanny-the-Nanny t1_iufu1q0 wrote

Places in Utah have similar work-arounds. A brewery across the walking bridge from Watchmen Campground in Zion National Park used to a great selection of small appetizers for $2-3. Beer wasn’t bad either.

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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_iug9qmq wrote

Reminds me of that story of how a business wanted to sell water but the venue banned it to promote more alcohol sells. So what they did instead was charge $1 for a peanut shell and along with it came a free bottle of water.

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