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[sm4him]

Whacha drinking?

Whatever I can get my greasy, little paws on.

I really wanted to work on that Fireball whisky some more tonight, but I suspected the wine might be kinder to my tummy.

 

[snerd]

At the moment........................

and........................

 

[Gary A.]

I like white wines.

And red ones, and pink ones, and yellow ones . . . .

You're postwhoring again. lol

 

[sm4him]

What is a 'package store'?

That's what they call liquor stores here in the south. Just occurred to me that maybe they don't do that everywhere? I've always wondered why on earth they call it that. I'm sure somehow they thought it sounded "nicer" and covered up the fact that you were going to buy alcohol.

 

[minicoop1985]

I like Tecate.

 

[snowbear]

I like white wines.

And red ones, and pink ones, and yellow ones . . . .

You're postwhoring again. lol

Not at all. If I had been, I wouldn't have combined them into a single post.

 

[sm4him]

So, I just learned something.

Evidently, in the south, they started calling them "package" stores immediately after the Prohibition. Sales of alcohol were allowed, but the bottles could not legally be transported without being in a "package" of some sort (brown bags), hence "package stores."

Almost all of them, at least in my area, are still called package stores to this day.

 

[Gary A.]

You go to Costco?

 

[Gary A.]

I like white wines.

And red ones, and pink ones, and yellow ones . . . .

You're postwhoring again. lol

Not at all. If I had been, I wouldn't have combined them into a single post.

You're just trying to cover your tracks. I know postwhoring when I read it.

 

[snowbear]

So, I just learned something.

Evidently, in the south, they started calling them "package" stores immediately after the Prohibition. Sales of alcohol were allowed, but the bottles could not legally be transported without being in a "package" of some sort (brown bags), hence "package stores."

Almost all of them, at least in my area, are still called package stores to this day.

And those that preferred to make it themselves were the start of NASCAR.

 

[sm4him]

You go to Costco?

Who? Me? No, there's not one around me.
There's a Trader Joe's but they aren't allowed to sell wine in grocery stores in our area, so that's out too.

 

[Gary A.]

You go to Costco?

Who? Me? No, there's not one around me.
There's a Trader Joe's but they aren't allowed to sell wine in grocery stores in our area, so that's out too.

They're sure making it hard.

 

[Gary A.]

Most package stores only carry the cheap/crappy stuff.

 

[sm4him]

So, I just learned something.

Evidently, in the south, they started calling them "package" stores immediately after the Prohibition. Sales of alcohol were allowed, but the bottles could not legally be transported without being in a "package" of some sort (brown bags), hence "package stores."

Almost all of them, at least in my area, are still called package stores to this day.

And those that preferred to make it themselves were the start of NASCAR.

The story of Thunder Road has at least part of its ending in the area that I grew up in.

In the song, when it says, "blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike, then right outside of Bearden where they made the fatal strike; He left the road at 90, that's all there is to say, the devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day..."

That area is my home. I grew up in Bearden, just about two miles from the hill that is purportedly the site of the infamous Thunder Road crash.

 

[Gary A.]

Do you have any beverage warehouses type stores around?