Considering Denver: Liquor Laws?? ( sell)

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by nele

No, you can't send ahead your meal orders before the dinner party :-). I've never had any problem at all eating at any gathering. It's the people who rudely comment on it, that are the problem.

That's sad that your friend "gave up".

By the way, it doesn't matter WHY she did it. I never talk about why I don't eat meat unless someone asks, and then I minimize it unless someone seems genuinely interested in why, rather than just rude.

A lot of people with eating disorders become vegetarians as an excuse not to eat. I'm not saying ryan's gf had an eating disorder, just that it is common to do so in EDs.

ANRED: Eating Disorders Warning Signs

[bullfish15]

WOW! I see an agenda here! Your tantrum about the blue laws lacks true understanding of the situation at hand. As many other people have explained the blue laws were recently repealed. I believe the blue laws were placed into effect around the prohibition era. They in no way reflect anyone's moral attitude. What is significant is not that we had the law, but that the law has been repealed. It was one of the last remaining relics of the prohibition era that was long overdue to be done away with. This demonstrates that our representative democracy still works. It removes senseless government protectionism for the liquor stores.

Now on to your ranting about antivegitarianism... You may have your reasoning to hate meat, more power to you. But put your agenda based mindset aside for a minute. You starting posting on a thread about liquor laws. Many states have or had blue laws. You somehow equated antiquated liquor laws with an ultra conservative mindset amongst the people in Colorado. If that wasn't distracting enough you brought your food preferences into the discussion. If you want talk about rude people in Colorado or social conservatism then start a thread on it! Don't hijack this one because someone made fun of your diet! By the way, if someone came over my house for a party and refused my cooking I would be offended. You are the one who choses to not eat meat for whatever reason, so you need to be ready to accept the consequences. If it bothers you that someone doesn't agree with your decisions, maybe you don't feel comfortable with the reasons why you don't eat meat. Grow up! Don't let other people's opinions bother you so much. People have the right to disagree with you and tell you why they do just as much as you have the right to do whatever the heck you want to.

[nele]

Originally Posted by bullfish15

By the way, if someone came over my house for a party and refused my cooking I would be offended. You are the one who choses to not eat meat for whatever reason, so you need to be ready to accept the consequences. If it bothers you that someone doesn't agree with your decisions, maybe you don't feel comfortable with the reasons why you don't eat meat. Grow up! Don't let other people's opinions bother you so much. People have the right to disagree with you and tell you why they do just as much as you have the right to do whatever the heck you want to.

Absolutely, people have the right to disagree, I'm with you on that and never said otherwise. But I would never get offended if someone chose not to eat something I prepared. I'm not that good of a cook :-) and I know people have different tastes, habits, and opinions. But what I would never do is criticize them for not taking my food or otherwise let them know I was offended. That's just rude. And that's my whole point throughout this thread, folks.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by nele

Absolutely, people have the right to disagree, I'm with you on that and never said otherwise. But I would never get offended if someone chose not to eat something I prepared. I'm not that good of a cook :-) and I know people have different tastes, habits, and opinions. But what I would never do is criticize them for not taking my food or otherwise let them know I was offended. That's just rude. And that's my whole point throughout this thread, folks.

I'm a vegetarian (although I eat fish once in a while) and know many others here in Denver. People seem to be accepting of it here and restaurants always have meat-free options.

As for the liquor laws, I forgot to buy liquor yesterday in celebration. I think what it really boiled down to was that liquor stores are small, family-owned businesses here and they just liked having a day off.

[steveindenver]

In talking with a few folks who own liquor stores they were all less than happy about the prospect of having to open on Sundays. Every store that I am aware of has shorter hours on Sunday.

You would think that with the threat of Grocers being able to sell real beer and wine looming around the corner the local shops would do everything in their power to service the demand with longer hours on Sunday in an effort to appease the customers and demonstrate that large Grocery chains serving alchohol are not desired by consumers.

[SheridanL]

I seriously don't think the laws were kept around for so long due to NOT drinking on Sundays,.....for gosh sakes,, a LOT of churches take communion and the "blood of Christ" is Wine!!

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by 5starson23

I've posted a similar thread on the Pittsburgh forum and I can already tell that I am overwhelmingly going to get a lot of opinions on personal thoughts on drinking itself.

I don't want to be rude, but I do not care what your personal feelings are on drinking.

I want to know where you can buy beer, wine/liquor, what the bartime is, when the stores close, can you buy beer at bars and bring it home, etc.

I know people have strong feelings about things and stuff... but I am really looking for "just the facts ma'am."

Just the facts ma'am! I'm laughing my head off. I hear ya. It's funny how so many people don't indulge themselves, but love to talk about alcohol! It's a heck of an industry. This thread is spreading like wildfire, even though there are many others like it. This one is perhaps one of the later ones since Colorado enabled liquor sales on Sunday as of the 1st.

If you wanna drink here, you sure can. I sure did. Now that I've stopped, I'm sure there's much more to go around. The stocks took a hit though.

About the BAC and altitude; let me drive you up to the top of Mt. Evans and I'll let you drink a six-pack of let's say...malt liquor. I guaran-darn-tee you that you'll be riding in the back of my truck for the trip down. When I used to party, I noticed that I had more energy in LA and Dallas an NY City, dispite my alcohol consumption. Not a very scientific approach, but there ya go.

As far as the question about how much you can purchase? The only place that I knew that limited alcohol consumption for an otherwise coherent and not beligerent person was the SLC airport. One "ounce" of alcohol per drink. And I mean they get out the scale and weigh the shot! It's un-American, I tell you. If you're gonna drink, drink! But that's just me.

Originally Posted by SteveinDenver

...and demonstrate that large Grocery chains serving alchohol are not desired by consumers.

Hmmm. It depends. We all drink differently. You've got your teetotalers who "just don't drink", your social drinkers (He's having a drink, social I), your moderate drinkers (these strange beings can handle their booze), the hard drinkers (situational hard drinkers or just good ole' partiers, but can quit or moderate if necessary), then your alkies (can't stay stopped for any length of time and can't control the amount once they start).

Now I'm sorry if this bores anyone but the point was brought up, so. Some people would like to buy a bottle of wine for dinner or some beer or hard liquor for mixed drinks while they're shopping for groceries but put it off because they don't want to go to the "dreaded" liquor store.

I seriously don't think the laws were kept around for so long due to NOT drinking on Sundays,.....for gosh sakes,, a LOT of churches take communion and the "blood of Christ" is Wine!!

Oh, that's right. Grape juice works fine too.

PS: Oh, let me add my dad's favorite toast while I'm here: Here's to the woman of my dreams, I could not ask for more. She's deaf, dumb, over-sexed, and owns a liquor store.

[SheridanL]

You're funny McDowdog!

[Katiana]

You would think that with the threat of Grocers being able to sell real beer and wine looming around the corner the local shops would do everything in their power to service the demand with longer hours on Sunday in an effort to appease the customers and demonstrate that large Grocery chains serving alchohol are not desired by consumers.

I loved your post, McGowdog, especially the social drinker definition. In regards to the above, I loved being able to buy alcohol in the grocery stores in Illinos. In our town, they were all large chains. It was very convenient. There were liquor stores there too, some of which had better selection.

[McGowdog]

I got a million of em. Unfortunately, alcohol is a subject that I'm well versed on. I did a lot of field work, lab work, whatever you wanna call it.

I would think the liquor store owners should be concerned. And how about Applejacks. Maybe they would continue to do ok because they might have that better variety.

We were just at a small store in Carmel and they had a whole part of the store dedicated to just wine and two and a half aisles to booze. I didn't mean to pay that much attention, but it looked like they were pretty well stocked.