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Voters in Lafayette will decide on two different alcohol-related issues. Currently, only beer and wine sales are permitted between 6 a.m. and midnight Monday through Saturday. Packaged liquor sales and on-premises consumption are prohibited unless Lafayette voters opt to allow it.
Lafayette voters will choose either to permit or not permit “retail package stores to sell alcoholic beverages in the City of Lafayette” and either for or against the “legal sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises” in the city.
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I don't see either of these two measures passing. Oh sure, people in these small rural counties drink, they just don't want their friends and neighbors to know they do.
We have exactly one small liquor store here in Macon County in the town of Red Boiling Springs. I can drive past it and what I see are vehicles sporting Trousdale County license plates in the parking lot, and if I go past a Trousdale County liquor store, I'm seeing Macon County plates.
There are no bars in Macon County. You can't even order a beer or glass of wine with your meal here.
And beer and wine sales don't stop at midnight like the article states, it's 10 PM.
You know how to keep a Baptist from drinking all your beer when you're fishing? Take 2 Baptists.
ReplyDeleteHow do you tell the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist? The Methodist will look at you and say hi in the liquor store.
I dont know if Mississippi was all dry in the 50's or just certain counties, but anyway it was dry where my uncle lived. We needed ice so he sent my cousin and me to an illegal bar(?) to get some. so we have 2 12 year olds, driving illegally in my uncles truck go into this place and the sheriff is sitting there eating his lunch.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Kansas from when I was a kid. I was in my early 30s before liquor by the drink came to Kansas. We had some weird liquor laws before then.
ReplyDeleteYou know why Methodists are opposed to alcohol? Because of the Whiskey Tax. Know why Carry Nation was so violently opposed to alcohol? She had an alcoholic husband.
Sounds like a bunch of Church of Christ folks (I was raised in it). Baptists drink but won't be seen dancing; CofC will dance (if you can call it that), but no music in the church, and absolutely no alcohol!
ReplyDeleteI reckon I fucked that all up.
--Tennessee Budd
My great grandfather was elected the county judge because he would set up fake stills to take the revenuers out to break up take a picture of them doing say great job and get them to leave with out going after any of the real ones he still like a local hero in his part of Kentucky
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