How do you work, America? (fact help, please?)

[sakesushimaki]

So, once again my European mind has encountered (and almost missed!) a point of ignorance. Help me out, please?

How does this booze-buying work again? You can get beer and softer booze at any supermarket but any harder stuff like vodka and whiskey is bought at a special liquor store, right

Comments

[ariadne_mitos]

That was an interesting topic!
I had no idea legislation about alcohol in USA is such a complicated matter.
Although I cannot offer any input on the subject, I can do a happy dance because I smell a fic coming :D

[sakesushimaki]

I knew the US is rather uptight with this topic but I also had no idea of the complexity of this. Not allowed to buy alcohol on certain times of the day, like sodoesrachael said? Superstrange concept to people unfamiliar with it.

Ooooh, but... ehm, patience, please? :x

[ariadne_mitos]

For you? All the patience of the world!

It's so weird, to regulate alcohol so heavily. I am not in favour of that. You make alcohol a sort of forbidden fruit that inevitable seems so appealing, especially to young people.

[sakesushimaki]

<3

You make alcohol a sort of forbidden fruit that inevitable seems so appealing, especially to young people.
Yes, exactly. I might not be in the US to see for myself, but I've seen the movies. ;D

[ariadne_mitos]

I see this in England a lot. They way young people lose control with alcohol so often.
In my house it was never taboo, and it was never something special to me (although I do drink).
In any case, I am very gratefull that I don't have to go out my way to buy some!