"I want to buy alcohol on Sunday like the other 47 states in this country!"
I just "signed" an online petition (I'm number 43,000 or so) requesting that our Legislature vote on Sunday liquor sales in Georgia. The format required your name and zip code and allowed you to "comment." I decided to surf some of the comments. The title of the post is one of them.
Maybe Sunday sales are not such a good idea, loss or lack of brain cells and all.
Or, am I reading this wrongly? Is Georgia one of three states that don't allow Sunday liquor sales?
Doesn't seem worth Googling. I like my first read of the comment.
Dude, I'm with you on this!
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I've ranted about this many times. Usually when I run out of wine on a Sunday...
We can buy alcohol here in Texas on Sunday but it is after 12. We can't buy it after midnight here but in Oklahoma they can buy it until 2 a.m. Kinda strange sometimes how laws differ so much from state to state.
Pennsylvania has/had some of the most convoluted blue laws I have ever seen.
Until very recently, if you wanted alcohol of any kind on a Sunday, you had to go to a bar/restaurant, where you were allowed to get take out beer, but only if the establishment had a liquor license.
You still can't buy booze in grocery stores here; unless they have a separate area roped off from the rest of the store and they have to have a liquor license.
Nowadays, you can get beer and wine on Sundays from "state stores" and distributors, but that is a very recent phenomenon. I guess they decided that beer and liquor sales on Sundays weren't going to make a dent in the rates of alcoholism.
The skinny is that the PA Liquor Control Board was wielding power over such things out of corruption, but I still don't know how that works.
When I lived in Nebraska you could buy beer and wine on Sunday's but not hard liquor. Doesn't make sense to me. You can get just as plowed on beer and wine. I was well known in my favorite liquor store when we lived there. The guy sold it to me anyway, even if it was on a Sunday. It was the quickest way to get rid of the shakes for me back then. Knock back a couple glasses of whiskey. No water or ice.
For those that don't know me, I haven't had a drink now in over 7 years. But I had to tell that story.
Be well!
Georgia is a bit skyzoprentic when it comes to blue laws. We do as our Legislators think their rural Southern Baptist constiuents want us to behave. Last year when Sunday sale of liquor came up our esteemed Govenor Sonny Perdue said that people should be able to "plan ahead." That was his nod at non-secular moral legislation.
That said, we are allowed to drink to our hearts' collective content on Sunday, if we drive to a restaurant, bar, sporting event, etc. and then drive back home.
Schizophrenic.
In Tennessee, only beer and wine coolers on Sunday. By law, everything else alcoholic can only be sold in liquor stores, which are closed on Sundays. Liquor stores, BTW, are forbidden to sell mixers, cigarettes, chips, or anything that doesn't contain alcohol.
At least you can buy alcohol at your grocery stores. In Canada you can't even do that!
Great post. I think one of the basic things that we should know know is that we must always make sure that you are safe in every transactions you wanted to indulge with.
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