trust me... there are more than enough alabamans... er alabamians... rednecks with access to booze

Best use of the Sad tag I've seen in weeks.

Yeah, it's sad that booze drinkers die and suffer eternal damnation at the hands of our Lord.

Every dry county is close to a wet one, and I got Sunday beer sales.

And I bet every one of them has at least three meth labs and a crack house.

Just as long as they don't go banning pate, it's cool.

Land of the free my ass :-P

I was thinking it was more than that.

You could imagine how surprised I was when I discovered the next county up (Jefferson) sold on Sundays; I never knew since I don't head up there much anyway.

Jesus, we are so bloody stupid about alcohol in North America. What is the big deal? We should look almost anywhere else in the civilised world, France, UK, etc to see that access to alcohol does not equal the spiral into anarchy.

Here in Canada it is crazy how bureaucratic it is to buy wine etc. You can't take your own wine to restaurants, and you cant have a beer on a hot day at the beach. Just bloody nuts!

Why do we worship depressants? I just don't get the alcohol abuse thing (note I am challenging the abuse not the responsible practice and taste enjoyment) - it makes you sick, stinky and totally out of it.

I prefer stimulants!

/espresso anyone?...

You can't take your own wine to restaurants

Uh...what? People do this?

/obligatory

hermeneutic: I prefer stimulants!

You obviously haven't tried the right depressant. :D

that's not condensation coming off of the beer cans, its tears.

NJ ROCKS (for beer and liquor laws/sales)

/and the beach

Spork Bunny; Come to Cape Breton, it's a magical land where we're all drunk anyway so one on give's a fark. we got some nice beachs too.
as for the restaurants..... man, they have their own wine for sale... it makes sence they want you to buy it.

Alternate headline: 26 counties embrace meth as the predominant intoxicant of choice.

Who gives a rat's ass?

try 46 dry counties in Texas and 169 partially wet.

Visited friends in a Texas dry county once.I told them to invite me back when alcohol is sold there.

My city (Florida) does not allow beer sales on Sundays. Isn't that in violation of the Establishment Clause?

At what point in human existence did one man surpass another in the ability to discern right and wrong for the other?

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This problem is easily resolved 8)

A google search of "county line" alabama liquor gives about 17,600 hits.

Guess where many liquor stores are located.

Where I live the Wal MArt stops selling at 9pm on sundays and it used to be a dry county on sundays alltogether, until everybody got sick of the mormons pulling that crap and finally threatened to pull votes and funding.
\Mormons will do anything for fedia.

Talibama?

I sure am glad I live in a wet county.

There are 54 Dry Counties in Kentucky. Of course the nation's best moonshine is there too.
/Disclaimer: I'm a Kentuckian and from 'shiner stock.

The south is just weird and lame when it comes to booze.

Ex 1- Alabama: The county just north of my mother-in-law's allows sales of beer and wine, only the merchants aren't allowed to chill it. Mother-in-law lives in a dry county.

Ex 2- Georgia: The county my mom lives in just recently allowed sales of beer and wine in grocery stores. Liquor stores aren't allowed to sell beer and wine and beer and wine stores aren't allowed to sell liquor. Both stores can occupy the same building as long as there is a wall between them with no access to the other side and two different cash registers. Oh, and they allow drive-thrus on the beer side.

Ex 3- Georgia: No beer/wine/liquor sales on Sundays from a gas station/grocery store/liquor store. However, heading to a restaurant and getting tanked is A-OK...in most counties. Liquor sales in grocery stores are forbidden.

We should look almost anywhere else in the civilised world, France, UK, etc to see that access to alcohol does not equal the spiral into anarchy.

Except on Football Saturdays.

Plenty of that fire water to go around down here, so don't worry.

/if you want to drink on Sunday, just buy more on Saturday

As someone who grew up in an Alabama Dry county (Monroe), I can assure they are far from dry. You just had to drive 20 miles round trip to the county line and you could get what you wanted.

Now, the largest city in the county (with a whopping 6000 people) has beer and wine sales Monday-Saturday. It is a start.

You can't take your own wine to restaurants

Uh...what? People do this?

They are called BYOB restaurants. They're quite common in NJ, I guess not so much elsewhere. I was surprised when the manager at Long John Silvers on the way to New Orleans threw us out for drinking High Life in his restaurant.

My brother lives in a dry county in AL no trip to his house is complete with out a stop at the county line to stock up. Of course in Michigan you can not buy booze on Christmas. In Georgia it is up to the local gov't or the most part.

I live next door to a liquor store. I don't mean close to one I mean right next door. If my light is still on when they are closing they will knock on my door to see if I need anything before they lock up. But the bars stop selling at 1:30 so that sucks.

burn christians, burn.

Lynchburh, Tennessee is in a dry county. They make Jack Daniel's there.

Many of those "dry" counties in Alabama have a city that is wet. And whole-hog wet, too. It's a different attitudinal set: city and larger town dwellers like their drink or have a live-and-let-live attitude towards others doing it; the country folk are bone dry: hard-shell Baptists or Church of Christ.

End of Alabama sociological lecture.

Resume your ignorant slams against the state de jour, if you wish.

Spork Bunny

Jesus, we are so bloody stupid about alcohol in North America. What is the big deal? We should look almost anywhere else in the civilised world, France, UK, etc to see that access to alcohol does not equal the spiral into anarchy.

The sad part is that it is not only the civilized world that has a more relaxed attitude towards alcohol than some places in America. Pretty much all of the world has a better attitude. The only ones who are as dry are some of the extremely religious places in the middle east. From what I read in an article about Iran some time ago even they have better attitudes as they outlaw alcohol, but apparently make exceptions for those religious minorities who don't subscribe to their islamic ban on alcohol. So a Jew could for examply legally buy alcohol in Iran but not in a dry county in the south of the United States.

I live in Alabama and I did not know that there were that many dry counties....There's a least a couple ABC Beverage stores right near me.

Ignorant people with too much religion on their hands write stupid laws. This applies to Iran, Afghanistan, Poland, and Alabama.

Meanwhile, their populations (and politicians) are fixated on all the wrong issues (e.g. social issues) instead of trying to raise up education levels and commerce.

All the time and money spent getting people stirred up about the 10 Commandments, blue laws, and such should be put into getting people primed to actually enter civilization and be productive in things other than moonshine, reactionary politics, and obesity.

dobraine: wurd!
\"having solved all other problems"

What the 26 counties are missing?

You can't take your own wine to restaurants

Uh...what? People do this?

Here in New York City, it's up to the restaurant.

Some restaurants that do not have a liquor license will let you BYOW (bring your own wine). Some of them will even call a liquor store and order it for you and have it delivered to your table.

As per restaurants with a license, some will also allow you to BYOW. They may charge you a "corkage fee" if you BYOW, though.

Of course, if you are a regular or know the manager/owner etc there is a better chance they'll let you BYOW.

Spork Bunny

"You can't take your own wine to restaurants"

It's crazy I know, just the other day I tried to bring my own dinner to a restaurant and they wouldnt let me! The humanity!!

/I know what byob is all about, don't need an explanation just making a joke