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raidnugget t1_j117dgx wrote

It's pretty interesting if you ask me.

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brock_lee t1_j117j0u wrote

There was one in a town I lived in once, and you basically drove INTO the store. It was like a car wash, but you drove in, they walked up to your window, you asked for what you want, and they brought it all to your car and put in in the back seat or trunk.

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truncheon88 t1_j117j0x wrote

Aww shit. Big Daddy's in Newport, KY. I remember getting liquor there on the way to the nearby punk club in the 80s.

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RandoCalrissian11 t1_j118hus wrote

As they should be.

In no state is it illegal to have liquor in your car, so there’s no reason not to have convenience.

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downtune79 t1_j118se0 wrote

Duh......well I say that like it's the same everywhere. That's been a thing in Georgia forever

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Im_Just_Sayin__ t1_j119b5s wrote

Probably have drive through daiquiri shops as well there… but they have to put a piece of masking tape on the lid to “make it legal”… wink wink.

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OrionR t1_j119pwj wrote

Replying to RandoCalrissian11 (#988,191)

In some states it is illegal to have liquor in a compartment accessible to the driver while in motion, so the drive thru format would have to involve loading the trunk instead of handing the purchase through a rolled down window. That practically limits the order fulfillment method to curbside pickup.

Edit: Seems I had bad info on the state I had in mind but the myth came from somewhere. Anyone know what state might have a law about location of SEALED containers in a motor vehicle?

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InsuranceToTheRescue t1_j11aola wrote

Had a friend from Ohio, and one of his friends from back home came to visit once. He was astounded that it was possible to stop down at the corner gas station at 6AM on a Sunday and buy liquor.

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mei740 t1_j11bsk7 wrote

OBX Brew Thru

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mei740 t1_j11bt9g wrote

OBX Brew Thru

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a_sentient_potatooo t1_j11bv85 wrote

We’ve had these for ages in Australia, it’s totally a normal thing here

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OrionR t1_j11cyt3 wrote

Replying to fiddlenutz (#988,401)

I was specifically thinking of North Carolina when I made my post, but looking around the internet the no closed alcohol containers in the passenger compartment rule may only apply to commercial vehicles. It's unclear to me now since I can't easily find the law itself. Everything I saw while skimming seems to be secondhand info, and some of my search results say that it is specifically legal rather than illegal in a commercial vehicle, contradicting the others.

Apparently we need a lawyer to be certain. The only thing I can be sure of now is that I was told to keep it in the trunk even if closed so that a cop couldn't use it as an excuse. I thought it was a misdemeanor.

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piquedinhighschool t1_j11ecte wrote

Replying to OrionR (#988,529)

I’ve never heard of your supposed rule for passenger cars. I feel like that would need to be a pretty prominent message because people buy alcohol all the time and put it in the seat next to them.

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kalel1980 t1_j11eq20 wrote

How many people came rolling thru there completely smashed, bouncing their vehicles off the building and curbs?

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CrestedBonedog t1_j11eqw7 wrote

Replying to brock_lee (#988,408)

Haha, I've had the Grand Tour of Ohio during my lifetime so I know exactly what you're talking about. I grew up in the Cincinnati area, went to college at OSU, and live in NEO now.

These drive-thru convenience stores are all over the place. The only thing that sucks about NEO is the nearest Skyline is down in Mayfield...

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MissSassifras1977 t1_j11etl5 wrote

I lived in a tiny town for a while. One of the two bars in the entire town had a drive up window where you could buy plastic cups of soda and ice and airline size bottles of booze.

I think a twelve ounce soda and a shot of Soco was like 3 or 4 bucks. Weekends were really wild in that area. It's also a college town.

I've got a friend that fell off the roof of a bank, but nobody saw it happen so his friends found him, picked him up and took him back to the bar.

I guess eventually someone was like, "Jeff, why are you bleeding from your ears?"

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dasoomer t1_j11gkeb wrote

Back in my younger days, I would go to a very nice byob strip club that had a drive through liquor store in the same lot. Was always a good time.

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soda_cookie t1_j11gsu5 wrote

Oddly enough, you don't see these in Cali. Highly inconvenient if you ask me

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OrionR t1_j11gtuc wrote

Replying to piquedinhighschool (#988,635)

It's not "my" rule. I never asked for it.

Found the actual law: https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_20/GS_20-138.7.html

It looks like what I heard before was just incorrect, the law explicitly allows sealed containers in the passenger compartment. Also, the commercial vehicle exception is to allow open containers.

Funny enough, if you ask Bing a rather pointed question about whether or not a SEALED container is illegal in the passenger compartment in North Carolina, it says that it is... misinterpreting the available sources like what appears to be many other parties before it.

Regardless, I do think it's wise advice to put it in the trunk whenever practical like any object that could become a projectile in an accident.

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vonvoltage t1_j11kvja wrote

I've been to one in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A long time ago, but I guess its still there.

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Bug1oss t1_j11maov wrote

Replying to brock_lee (#988,115)

Brew Through? I've used them in Myrtle Beach, SC and (I think) Pensacola, FL).

Some have funny rules. Like, if there is a lid on it, it's not an "open" container. Or better, they put the straw in, but tear 90% of the paper off.

Most people just get a case or 2 of beer, and pop the trunk on the way to beach week.

The most fun part is thinking of people spending years of their lives inhaling exhaust fumes. Thank God there are fewer diesels...

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Kancho_Ninja t1_j11mcuy wrote

Wait until you learn about drive thru drug stores.

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DieselVoodoo t1_j11prdf wrote

When I was growing up in Ohio they actually had drivethrus and would open up early during hunting season. What could happen?

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ElfMage83 t1_j11q3kw wrote

I'm deeply surprised PA is on this list. It's like Prohibition lasted until 2015 here, and even then it still isn't fully repealed.

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Xeelee4 t1_j11qimi wrote

A lot of rural bars in Tennessee still have these. They would start out as "package stores" where you could drive up to the window to get six-packs then as time went on some of them would add-on a space for a bar and pool tables or music stages.

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GrayHairFox t1_j11qo50 wrote

VA needs to get out if the liquor business.

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ThunderGuts64 t1_j11stgj wrote

Or as we Aussies like to call them, the Bottlo.

A goon of shardy, carton of VB, and packet of Winnie Reds, ta mate.

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MinnieShoof t1_j11tg91 wrote

Ha. Liquor stores. I grew up in Louisiana and I never understood the point of a liquor store when you could just buy it at any corner store, grocery, gas station or supermarket. But we also have drive thru daiquiri so…

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PoopiePantsMahn t1_j11y62n wrote

I have 3 drive thrus near me. 1 of them is a beer barrel restaurant so it might not count but the other 2 are the normal type.

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I_love_hate_reddit t1_j11ys0g wrote

Grew up with these in Ohio. I never really missed them until I had kids. When they're strapped into a car seat and I want to pick up a bottle of wine on the way home it would be awesome to just drive through. The one in my hometown sold pizza and subs through the drive thru.

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deepdistortion t1_j1204bm wrote

My town has a drive-thru recycling depot/liquor store/convenience store. You can drop off your cans and put the deposit towards cigarettes and beer.

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jetdude19 t1_j122b99 wrote

Most things are illegal here in utah unless it's prescribed by a Dr.

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dethb0y t1_j122k1l wrote

They are awesome!

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Vitis_Vinifera t1_j125tb8 wrote

Replying to brock_lee (#988,115)

I'll have 2 bottles of Pliny the Elder, a four pack of Fieldwork King Citra, a bottle of Shafer Hillside Select, and a bottle of Hartford Court Hartford Vineyard Pinot Noir please.

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elle_quay t1_j1268cj wrote

Even in Maryland where they make it super inconvenient to buy booze, you can get it in a drive thru.

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CorgiMonsoon t1_j126tnn wrote

Replying to Vitis_Vinifera (#990,737)

I just went to a place about 10 miles south of downtown Sacramento that had a whole bunch of wineries’ tasting rooms gathered in one building. It was a good way to spend a Monday, and close enough for a Lyft there and back to not be ridiculously expensive, but I can only imagine the madness that must ensue there on a Saturday

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scooterboy1961 t1_j128asu wrote

When comedian Craig Furgeson came to America from Scotland his friends took him to a place where you could buy liquor, guns, fireworks, get married and divorced all without getting out of your car and he knew he had come to the right place.

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JJohnston015 t1_j128rjz wrote

New Mexico, which has one of the highest rates of drunk driving, is one of the states where these were outlawed a long time ago. Not surprisingly, the rate of drunk driving was unaffected. It's almost as if they had nothing to do with it. As my dad would say, "It's the Catholics. Of course, they have their wine, so screw everybody else."

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nooriooreo t1_j12bna7 wrote

How about them thru daiquiris tho? Gah, I miss NoLa.

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tayt087x t1_j12dezo wrote

Makes more sense than a bar with a parking lot

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happy_muffin_ t1_j12dm8m wrote

When I lived in Florida like 16 years ago there was one. And they only carded the person that placed the order. I was 19 at the time and the driver, only 21 year old was in the back driver side. Used to get a bottle of jack and 12 pack of beer

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throway22781 t1_j12hwgz wrote

I moved to the midwest from the deep south, this and liquor in grocery stores/gas stations were like my biggest culture shocks.

I remember when i was a kid the grocery store by my house started selling beer and wine and there were organized protests bc of it, if a drive thru liquor store popped up i know many people who would just straight up move. Meanwhile i come here and im pretty sure riots would be started if a grocery store said theyd stop selling everclear

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Draconuuse1 t1_j12j7vd wrote

Honestly why not. Most any country that allows personal liquor purchases will let you place it in your vehicle. Why not cut down the middle work and have someone else put it in your car as long as your sober as the driver. Any sane person knows to wait until your home. And any sane business owner knows to not serve someone even slightly impaired.

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r_sharon t1_j12n5do wrote

From 1995 until 1998, I was in the US Army and assigned to Fort Knox, Kentucky. I remember driving on the Dixie Highway to Louisville, Kentucky and seeing drive through liquor store on the near county lines. Some Kentucky counties are dry- alcohol is illegal to sell. These types of county line liquor stores are nicknamed first chance / last change stores, because you were either departing or about to enter a dry county.

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nrp1982 t1_j12pfti wrote

Well nearly most towns in Australia have them

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EmperorXerro t1_j12q37h wrote

I remember going through one in South Padre Island, Texas back in 1994. I thought it was the most Texas thing ever.

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KeefTheWizard t1_j12qqg5 wrote

Where are all the anti- abortionists? Don't want to protest public drinking and inebriated drivers? Thought they were Moralists! /s

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cannajeep t1_j13idnq wrote

They also have drive thru pharmacy. No wonder my TV is full of crappy drug ads.

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newmoniker25 t1_j13k06a wrote

Try the drive liquor store for when you got places to go and people to kill.

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Hewholooksskyward t1_j13ss5q wrote

Drew Carey: "Drive-thru liquor stores. Almost a good idea. For that busy alcoholic who's always on the go! 'Got things to do, places to go, people to run over!'" :)

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RandoCalrissian11 t1_j13vpzi wrote

Replying to JazzFestFreak (#994,570)

Yes, that’s a little different. During Covid you could order any drink (and maybe still can, I think they never changed that) to go and it was fine as long as it had a lid and like a piece of tape over the lid.

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JazzFestFreak t1_j13wsbr wrote

Replying to RandoCalrissian11 (#994,708)

That was definitely a life saver for the bars. Culturally it is very different here. We were the last state to raise the drinking age. No politician will win if they say they will tighten up the “drive thru daiquiri” loophole. Cops know virtually every person who gets a daiquiri is putting the straw in and sipping as they pull out of the lot. And this is not just New Orleans. It is nearly every county (we call them “parishes”) in the lower part of the state. MADD tried to shut them down in the 90’s and a satirical group called DAMM cranked up (drinks against mad mothers) it is just one of those nutso things down here. Maybe the hurricanes made us crazy. When I walk the dogs in the evening, it is common to do so with a “walking cocktail”. Sipping a Sazerac while taking the evening stroll is nearly expected.

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ThunderGuts64 t1_j158n7z wrote

Replying to WazWaz (#994,135)

Mostly because pubs aren't as common as they used to be. Usually, but not always if there is an old established pub there is a drive through bottlo attached to it.

To be honest I prefer the walk ins like Dan Murphys, its like a massive store of happy drunkenness.

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EnnissDaMenace t1_j15awrx wrote

They are illegal in utah but you can get weed delivered if you have a medical card lol

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iostream64 t1_j15z5g9 wrote

I mean yeah it makes sense. Only thing that's illegal is open container. As long as you didn't order like an open beer to drink while driving They really shouldn't have a problem.

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