I didn’t know we still had blue laws in this country.
Good, now I can get my mid-morning fix without having to resort to fetanyl. What a lifesaver.
You never know when you might want to have a beer before church.
Blue Laws: The bane of any tailgater on a Sunday morning in Texas...
I remember being a kid and walking through the grocery store on Sunday and seeing whole sections taped off. It was ridiculous then, and now.
I’m not a huge drinker, but we have some of the most outdated alcohol rules on the books. Since we can buy beer and wine on Sunday, it would be wonderful if hotwheels and company would like to tackle being able to sell spirits on Sundays.
MI changed the law to allow drinking 7am to 4am 7 days a week just as soon as I stopped drinking.
I guess they had to do something to make up for the revenue loss.
How does an executive order from a governor allow businesses to sell alcohol?
That needs to be a bill.
Crikey! I remember having to drive 12 miles from Richardson, TX to buy beer when I learned about those laws on one of my first business trips to Dallas. It made me bonkers to think that you couldn’t buy beer when you wanted to buy beer. And I grew up in California where they stopped selling booze at 2:00am, or something like that.
I moved to Japan to get away from ever having to experience that silliness again.
Here we can buy booze 24/7 and drink on the street - even in front of the cop boxes, in public parks, and anywhere socially acceptable as long as we don’t cause enough trouble to make someone want to call the cops.
No one usually carries an open container in a shop though, because that would be a little rude, but, yeah, we’ve got it good here.
It’s changing to 2 hours?
What difference does that make?
Now open it up to liquor too!
They can get that passed, but not something that ACTUALLY benefits the public. Not going to happen.
Sunday at noon is fine—just like the old days in Arizona!!!!
Go to Church—then you can worthily get some beer or wine for your barbecue or Sunday dinner!!!!
Why not simply stock up the day before if noon is too late for you? That’s what I would do if alcohol was that important to me.
When I was a kid, I’d go to the Pa. “State Store” with my dad. We’d walk in, and get in one of the lines at the counter. Behind the counter, every species of wine and liquor would have a representative bottle on the wall behind the clerks. The clerks had the personalities of prison guards. When you got to the front of the line, you would tell them what you wanted, they’d stroll into the back and eventually come back with your order. I think it glamorized booze for me. Things have come a long way, now you can fill your own order, and take it to one of the lines at the front of the store, and pay the prison guards.
I remember the days when stores weren’t even open on Sundays.