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As I pen this short narrative, I can only describe my feelings in one super millennial word, “Shook.”
Yesterday as I was browsing my google alerts for “Margarita” I found that the Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control Board, or the ABC, had banned pitchers throughout the state. The legislation stated:
“It shall be unlawful… for any person to fortify, adulterate, contaminate, or in any manner change the character or purity of alcoholic beverages from that as originally marketed by the manufacturer, except that a retail licensee on order from a customer may mix a chaser or other ingredients necessary to prepare a cocktail or mixed drink for on-premises consumption.”
Punishment for violations ranged from fines to even months of jail time… just for serving pitchers of delicious boozy margaritas.
ABC officials defended this unjust pitcher ban claiming due to the density of the alcohol, it settles over time causing unequal distribution of alcohol. However what they didn’t consider were my abilities to consume whole pitchers of margaritas at a time, time wasted ordering multiple drinks, and my finances because a pitcher is indeed less expensive than ordering a few margs.
Luckily yesterday, the unjust and rightfully unpopular anti-pitcher was called off. With Alabama being Jimmy Buffet’s home state, the story quickly got wheels and the state’s ABC received an overwhelming amount of negative press ultimately ending the pitcher prohibition. Now restaurants are free to serve pitchers of margs at will, frozen and on the rocks. And I hope everyone in that state orders a few and lives their own version of the #MargLife this weekend.
It’s amazing how quickly unwarranted laws can be put to rest with the right amount of focus. *Cough* Legalize weed *Cough*.
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1. By this logic it would be illegal to serve draft beer, thus forcing all patrons to take keg stands behind the bar.
2. I don’t often crave ice cold Budweiser straight from the tap at 8:57 am, but god damn does that sound delicious right about now.
True story, my parents lived in Troy, AL for a little while and you couldn’t buy draft beer or kegs in that county (I think it’s Pike, probably wrong though). It was the weirdest thing. They had a sandwich shop that sold Natty and Busch Light bottles for $1 but heaven forbid you sell a draft beer.
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From a pure business standpoint, this law would have been a revenue loss for the state and the justice system. If you limit people’s ability to get drunk and then operate a vehicle, that drastically lowers the probability of bagging people for DUI’s and other traffic violations which in turn would result in a workload loss for lawyers and court hearings. If you think they make laws to keep you “safe”, you’re wrong. It’s all about profit and they literally don’t give a shit about you, the individual. The game is rigged folks, we’re all on the down slope side of the pinball table of life
I’d love to see the inside of your doomsday bunker
Something tells me Nived prefers the sweet release of death over the struggle that is surviving a post-apocalyptic world eventually created by the ongoing underground war between the lizard kings and the Rothschild’s.
Lmao. But for real though… ancient aliens
I’ve always had the theory that the worst part about surviving the apocalypse would be having to then live with the type of people who prepared for, and thus also survived, the apocalypse. I want to go in the first big flash of light please.
I don’t have one because it’s a lot of effort. If it happens I’ll just be like “good, this shit is getting boring anyway”
Articles like this on a Friday make it real tempting to email my manager and tell her I’m taking a half day
I never even heard about this. Glad it got removed before the weekend.
Hell yes, as a new Alabama resident this is music to my ears.