I think it must be law here in Massachusetts, 'cause I’ve never seen hard liquor in a grocery store. In fact, 95% of the grocery stores here don’t even sell wine or beer.
Different topic: I can’t remember Josta, but does anyone besides myself remember OK soda from the early 'nineties? It was made by the good people at Coca-Cola and it was great stuff! To describe the taste, I’d say it’s kind of like halfway between Coke and Surge. They had a toll-free hotline you could call and leave a recording describing the various benefits accrued from drinking the stuff.
I remember OK soda,
The first time I saw it I was impressed with the little cartoons on each can.
Cannot say I was particularly overwhelmed by the taste.
but they were funny
Well it’s looking more and more like AZ might have been in the minority. It still seems bizarre to me that the experience of plonking down a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, a couple of frozen dinners and a bottle of Jack Daniels is one reserved for Arizona residents and their rare kindred. I’d never been to a liquor store in my LIFE to buy alcohol until I moved to Virginia. It seems about as strange to me as only being able to buy cigarettes at a smoke shop.
Different states have different laws as to whether alcohol can be sold in grocery stores. Varies state-by-state. It is fairly rare to be able to buy hard liquor in the supermarket, but there are a few states that allow this.
In NJ no alcohol is sold in grocery stores, but Trader Joe’s sells beer and wine. I don’t know why they are allowed to do this, but I appreciate the convenience.
Lumpy, you are trying to accomplish the dietary equivalent of legislating morality.
It can’t be done. I have always used one phrase as the bellweather for judging when someone is attempting to employ a dangerous degree of control over what would normally be a matter of personal discretion, namely;
“It’s for your own good.”
You are parroting that same sort of smarmy attitude and eliciting justifiable brickbats from all involved.
However laudable your intentions (i.e., paving stones for that venerable road) may be, it is better to focus on education than restrictive statutes.
Any similarity between this argument and ones about sex education are intentional.
Well, not everywhere in Texas. Here in Lubbock, the very buckle of the Bible Belt, package liquor sales are forbidden within the city limits. You can get a beer in a bar, but it’ll come in a glass or an open bottle; if you order a bucket of bottles, they’ll arrive all opened.
If you want liquor to bring home, you have to drive out past the county line to The Strip, a long road with liquor stores as far as the eye can see.
About Jolt: it’s still being made, but isn’t very widely available, in my experience. If you want some, you can order it online from Jolt’s owner, Wet Planet Beverages, who now makes flavors of Jolt other than cola. Orange Jolt, anyone?
I’m surprised, by the way, that no one has mentioned the irony that someone named “Lumpy” is trying to keep us all slender.
Two liters? Boy, I hope your desk is close to the bathroom.
As for OpalCat’s alcohol comment, here in Maryland, you can’t even buy beer and wine in the grocery stores, although I think this varies by county. You have to go to a liquor store or package store. Package stores are attached to bars. I was shocked when I moved to Florida, hit the local Albertson’s grocery store, turned an corner and saw an entire aisle of wine and beer!
Here in IL, it seems to vary city-by-city as far as liquor sales go.
In my town, grocery stores sell beer,wine and hard liquor (though you can’t buy anything after midnight or before 8 a.m. Mon-Sat and before noon on Sundays). My parents live 70 miles north, and in their town, you can’t buy ANY alcohol any place other than liquor stores, which close at 7 p.m. and are closed all day Sunday. I think it must be a local ordinance.
Back to the OP - I drink maybe one soda a month on average. I do drink a lot of coffee, iced tea, and water though. I see banning it as damn near impossible. Maybe if the “junk food tax” idea ever comes to fruition, it will raise the prices of soda/candy/fatty food.
I think overweight is due more to inactivity than “bad” foods in our society, anyways. Come home from work, pop a Coke or a beer, lean back, watch TV until you pass out - not much time for exercise there!
Here in good old Ohio, grocery stores have to be physically separated from the liquor area. This is because: 1) You need an expensive liquor license to sell beer, wine and liquor; and 2) no one can sell any liquor, including cooking wine, before 1pm on Sunday, by law.
Because, I suppose, the drunks need 10 hours of state-mandated sobriety so that they can attend church.
There’s something good about Chicago- I know I can go get a Thai fried rice or Indian curry at any time of the day or night (well almost- the Thai place closes at 5a.m. and I don’t know that the Indian cabbie hangout has ever closed- it’s always been open when I’ve driven by)
As for alcohol, I don’t buy much hard liquor, but it can be bought in grocery stroes.
(Angry beehive buzzing in background)OW! OUCH! OW!!
Well I’ve really stirred things up this time. Please note that I never proposed total prohibition on soda; I just suggested that maybe it should not be sold in every gas station, convenience store, supermarket, corner grocery and vending machine in town. But apparently, that’s what the Teeming Millions want.
Lumpy, it isn’t so much that all of us are unconcerned about the overall health of our fellow people. It is merely that, paramount to us all, is the freedom of choice.
As a radical constructionist (so to speak), it is my belief that all personal choice, be it religious, political, sexual, reproductive or dietary derives from the same exact part of our Constitution. Any such action like you suggest quickly tilts our social structure onto a slippery slope that is never as easy to recover from.
In other words;
Leave well enough alone.
To the rest of you;
Thank goodness that I live in California where all you have to worry about is if you’re too stupid or drunk to plan ahead four hours.
Except for the time between two and six o’clock in the morning, you can buy booze anywhere in the state, period, 20/7/365. No weird@ass restrictions as to where, how, at what place or which day you may do this or that. Just good old fashioned Frontier Freedom, cleaner than mountain air.
Yeah, that’s how capitalism works. People want things, so someone supplies them. Besides, I have 5 cans of Mountain Dew per day on average, and I only weigh 125 lbs. I’d be quite irate if I couldn’t pick up my my supply when I go shopping. It wouldn’t be pretty.
Next time I lose my password and change e-mail accounts, I’m going to register as Fronteir Freedom instead of Freedom3.
(well…I’ll probably spell it right when I register:))
Oil floats on water.
Oil is less dense than water.
5mL of water weighs 5 grams
5mL of oil weighs less than 5 grams.
5 grams of fat has 45 calories.
5 grams of water has 0 calories.
One teaspoon is 5mL.
How do you figure 1 tsp of fat is 100 calories?
I drink about 6-8 diet cokes a day. No sugar. I quit smoking. I only drink in moderation. If you try to take my diet coke away from you, I’ll find and kill you.
