Do you think MA will ever legalize happy hour? (Boston: restaurant, prices)

[GeePee]

Maybe the legalization of weed will make them charge less than $7 for bud lights?

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by GeePee

Maybe the legalization of weed will make them charge less than $7 for bud lights?

They already do, it's called "can I get a glass of water here?".

[BostonMike7]

Reason why I don't partake in afterwork drinking activities....unless the boss is paying.

Bad enough I went to dinner with the wife the other night and saw a $12 glass of Apothic Red on the menu.

[G-fused]

There is no happy hr in MA?

I don't go out much and when I do, don't drink much, but this is a surprise.

[jayrandom]

Or at least more than three licenses per chain? Louisiana is much more conservative about almost everything else, but Massachusetts is weirdly old-fashioned about its liquor laws.

Anyway, it just makes more economic sense to drink at home by yourself in the dark.

[TresChic314]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Sounds like a classy guy.

Eh I don't know I can be a bit rigid and even I had a little chuckle.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

Or at least more than three licenses per chain? Louisiana is much more conservative about almost everything else, but Massachusetts is weirdly old-fashioned about its liquor laws.

That's the modern "liberal" way, treating grown adults like children.


In TN, even in the "dry" counties you can buy beer at any gas station. Here in ME, you can buy booze at the Rite Aid.

[BostonMike7]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

Anyway, it just makes more economic sense to drink at home by yourself in the dark.

This time of year that pretty much means all day long

[jayrandom]

Originally Posted by massnative71

That's the modern "liberal" way, treating grown adults like children.


In TN, even in the "dry" counties you can buy beer at any gas station. Here in ME, you can buy booze at the Rite Aid.

I don't think alcohol restrictions are huge push of the modern liberal (more accurately progressive) movement. They were a hallmark of the progressive movement they are the modern successor of. If you look at current anti-prohibition efforts, they tend to find greater support on the left than on the right.

I don't think the restrictions in Massachusetts are quite as repressive as those in most of the South. Even in radically pro-alcohol Louisiana (one of the last holdouts on 21 drinking age, the place with drive-through daiquiri stands), liquor stores were entirely closed on Sundays. In Massachusetts, they make laws that tell you what to do because they know what you need better than you do. In the South they make laws that tell what to do because they know what God thinks you should be doing better than you. The latter tends to be more fervent.

It also helps that we tend to have dry town and they tend to have dry counties. Living in a dry county in Texas has serious consequences. Living in a dry town in Massachusetts means the liquor store is 1 mile away instead of 30 feet. I've never lived closer to a liquor store than when I lived in dry Belmont.

[Taffee72]

There's too much traffic around here for people to be driving around half drunk or completely drunk. They should RAISE the prices on alcoholic drinks to keep the drunks off the roads.