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25. You can buy alcohol on Sundays

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #24)

Mon Jun 27, 2016, 11:10 PM

Jun 2016

as well as anything else you want to. Under the blue laws you couldn't buy anything except food. Those laws haven't existed in over 20 years.

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In Indiana, you cannot buy cold beer at a convenience store. [View all] Tobin S. Jun 2016 OP

In NJ you can only buy beer at a liquor store or a bar. so eh. different states have different rules hollysmom Jun 2016 #1

In think a lot of places in the northeast are like that. Tobin S. Jun 2016 #2

In Texas littlebit Jun 2016 #3

We used to have a liquor store like that where I live in Iowa. 47of74 Jun 2016 #19

When I was stationed at Lackland AFB... 3catwoman3 Jun 2016 #4

It's still the same way today Major Nikon Jun 2016 #8

Having grown up in... 3catwoman3 Jun 2016 #10

TX did away with the blue laws littlebit Jun 2016 #22

Then someone should probably tell the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Major Nikon Jun 2016 #24

You can buy alcohol on Sundays littlebit Jun 2016 #25

So are you really claiming what I just posted isn't the law in Texas? Major Nikon Jun 2016 #26

I didn't claim that littlebit Jun 2016 #27

You did claim exactly that and it just isn't that hard to prove... Major Nikon Jun 2016 #29

Ok I responded to a post littlebit Jun 2016 #30

It is correct that some blue laws no longer exist Major Nikon Jun 2016 #31

State laws regarding alcohol are bizarre and confusing Rhiannon12866 Jun 2016 #5

Indiana = Mississippi without the Spanish moss. Aristus Jun 2016 #6

That is SO True! Night Watchman Jul 2016 #40

In NY, you can't buy wine at the grocery store. Only at designated liquor stores. mainer Jun 2016 #7

Here in Buffalo, Wegmans runs a liquor store. baldguy Jun 2016 #33

What shocked me... CanSocDem Jun 2016 #9

Well laundry_queen Jun 2016 #38

When I lived in Texas in the early 1980s they had blue laws lunatica Jun 2016 #11

Pantyhose? mikeargo Jun 2016 #12

That's what I said when I needed to replace the ones I had with runs in them lunatica Jun 2016 #13

My guess is that no clothing could be sold on Sundays TexasBushwhacker Jun 2016 #16

I still have a "Let's bust the blue laws!" button from back then (nt) Recursion Jun 2016 #21

That's an inconvenience!! Purrfessor Jun 2016 #14

Indiana seems to have always been a bit weird Zorro Jun 2016 #15

I was born and raised in IL AwakeAtLast Jun 2016 #17

Yep 47of74 Jun 2016 #18

My hometown in Mississippi was like that until recently Recursion Jun 2016 #20

Can't in Pennsylvania either n/t doc03 Jun 2016 #23

that doesn't sound very convenient to me! Kali Jun 2016 #28

Here in South Carolina RedRocco Jun 2016 #32

Here in PA RobinA Jun 2016 #34

"...a problem?" CanSocDem Jun 2016 #36

As a Long Time RobinA Jul 2016 #39

Here in Japan, it is a booze paradise. betsuni Jun 2016 #35

Utah is the craziest. greendog Jun 2016 #37

I worked in Provo, Utah several times in the 90s Yonnie3 Jul 2016 #42

I moved to CT in 2003 sharp_stick Jul 2016 #41

I lived in Fairfield County until 2004 and Sunday's often included madinmaryland Jul 2016 #43

I lived in a rural Virginia county and our Sundays often involved a trip to "Tijauna", which is what Yonnie3 Jul 2016 #44

NC discretely has it liquor stores listed as ABC stores. I moved to Arkansas and they had these patricia92243 Jul 2016 #45