JUST BOUGHT ALCOHOL on a Sunday!

[JulesMaximus]

Let me dissect the OP for you guys

JUST BOUGHT ALCOHOL on a Sunday!

This is the part where I'm talking about we can now buy alcohol on sunday. So I bought some wine.



This is the part where I wish I didn't have to drive to the county line to buy hard liquor.


Here you can buy beer / wine in the county. They do not allow the sale of hard liquor though. Thus I have to drive to the line...


I AM HIPSTER! ka KAW!

Wow, that blows. I think I'd kill myself if I couldn't drive the 1 mile down to my local supermarket and buy a bottle of Kettle One or Gray Goose.

 

[WelshBloke]

Despite deadlyapp's perhaps more refined opinion, I consider Yellow Tail excellent bang for the buck.

And, alfa, sorry, but Hal is correct. Wine is a completely different product from distilled spirits (hard liquor) in every major way -- how they are made, how they are regulated, how they are taxed, and what they are.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hard+liquor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_beverage:

Out of interest how do you guys distinguish between what we would call spirits (non sweetened raw distilled drinks like whisky or rum) and sweetened blended distilled drinks that we would call liqueurs (struggles to think of suitable girly drink)? Do you call both of them liqueurs or is there a specific name for each type?

 

[HAL9000]

Out of interest how do you guys distinguish between what we would call spirits (non sweetened raw distilled drinks like whisky or rum) and sweetened blended distilled drinks that we would call liqueurs (struggles to think of suitable girly drink)? Do you call both of them liqueurs or is there a specific name for each type?

Baileys, amaretto, Kahlúa, Tia Maria

 

[WelshBloke]

Baileys, amaretto, Kahl?a, Tia Maria

Yeah those.

 

[Perknose]

Out of interest how do you guys distinguish between what we would call spirits (non sweetened raw distilled drinks like whisky or rum) and sweetened blended distilled drinks that we would call liqueurs (struggles to think of suitable girly drink)? Do you call both of them liqueurs or is there a specific name for each type?

All the hard stuff is liquor, but the sweet stuff we call liqueurs.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liquor

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liqueur

 

[WelshBloke]

All the hard stuff is liquor, but the sweet stuff we call liqueurs.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liquor

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liqueur

Cheers. I actually thought those two spellings were just transatlantic differences (color/colour) rather than you using both. Makes sense when I think of it though, although it must cause a bit of confusion when spoken.

 

[Perknose]

Cheers. I actually thought those two spellings were just transatlantic differences (color/colour) rather than you using both. Makes sense when I think of it though, although it must cause a bit of confusion when spoken.

Not really, as there is enough difference in the pronunciation that the difference is readily evident.

We pronounce "liquor" in a manly and straightforward "Yankee" fashion, as God intended.

But we pronounce "liqueur" while pretending we are degenerate Frenchman (or, as you might know them, "frogs") . . . with a flouncy and drawn out over-emphasis on the first syllable so that it comes out "lee."

We then say the second syllable with an imagined Gallic sneer.

 

[alfa147x]

This is where I live. Notice how far from Atlanta or any other major city I am?
This area was lead by religious idiots for a long while. Now it's being taken over by people in their mid 20's.

Things are slowly changing. Good thing I'm only here for 2 more years Then back to Altnata

 

[JulesMaximus]

This is where I live. Notice how far from Atlanta or any other major city I am?
This area was lead by religious idiots for a long while. Now it's being taken over by people in their mid 20's.

Things are slowly changing. Good thing I'm only here for 2 more years Then back to Altnata

This is where I live (well, north county this anyway). I freaking love it here. Can't imagine living anywhere else.

 

[alfa147x]

I love San Diego. Miss it all the time. The reason I can't move there is distance. Moving a business from Statesboro to Atlanta is not that hard. You don't lose accounts / alienate them. Moving across the country on the other hand...

 

[Nebor]

Wow, that blows. I think I'd kill myself if I couldn't drive the 1 mile down to my local supermarket and buy a bottle of Kettle One or Gray Goose.

Severe alcohol addiction?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Severe alcohol addiction?

:whiste: Perhaps I was being a little overly dramatic.:awe: