# Drinking in France **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 25, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849 "2010-11-25T04:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849/21 "2010-11-26T13:03:16Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Not completely American. Drinking in public is fine in New Orleans. You do have a good point though. It is like one of those weird religious rules in the U.S. that most people don’t question. Also in Las Vegas, drink all you want on the strip, no one cares. ---
**Author:** ![Oscalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Oscalo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oscalo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849/22 "2010-11-26T16:23:46Z")
I just got back from Paris. Don’t recall seeing beer at McDonalds, but they did have cans of beer for sale at one Subway I went to. ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849/23 "2010-11-26T22:57:39Z")
I clearly remember seeing wine at McDonald’s in France, and I’m not alone in saying that they do sell it. [Der Spiegel](http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,566619,00.html). [The Globe and Mail](http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0124-03.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849/24 "2010-11-26T23:45:11Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I saw guys walking around with huge cans of beer in the Banbury train station in England…I don’t know if they were supposed to be doing this or not but nobody seemed to care. Why wouldn’t they be able to? ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849/25 "2010-11-26T23:46:29Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > :dubious: > > from Wiki: > > NYC: [8,391,881](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) > Hong Kong: [7,055,071](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_kong) > > That NYC population is only looking at the city, when you add the metro area: > > New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA 19,069,796 > Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA 12,874,797 > Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,580,567 > > [Metropolitan statistical area - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas) Yeah, New York is larger than Hong Kong, my bad. No other cities in America are, though (metro areas being irrelevant to my point.) ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849/26 "2010-11-26T23:51:15Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > :dubious: > > from Wiki: > > NYC: [8,391,881](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) > Hong Kong: [7,055,071](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_kong) > > That NYC population is only looking at the city, when you add the metro area: > > New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA 19,069,796 > Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA 12,874,797 > Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,580,567 > > [Metropolitan statistical area - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas) City populations and metropolitan areas depend on entirely on where one chooses to place the border, which most people seem to place according to how much a city’s population they feel is directly correlated with their personal virility as opposed to competing claims. Or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-in-france/561849.md?page=1)