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Do yall have any personal experience with dry places???
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30 Jul 2025, 6:14 pm

cyberdora wrote:
Fair enough, when I visited Europe I found what is national cuisine/drink and what the locals eat/drink are not necessarily same. For example French and Swiss people eat Italian food and love Italian wine. Englishmen love curry :lol: .


Well, my dad's people way back when had picked up borst from the Russians, so I guess vodka is a possibility after all.


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31 Jul 2025, 5:56 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
cyberdora wrote:
Fair enough, when I visited Europe I found what is national cuisine/drink and what the locals eat/drink are not necessarily same. For example French and Swiss people eat Italian food and love Italian wine. Englishmen love curry :lol: .


Well, my dad's people way back when had picked up borst from the Russians, so I guess vodka is a possibility after all.

My general impression in Europe is popular food and wine = southern European (pasta and pizza is very popular everywhere)
Popular beers = Czech, Belgian, English and German
Popular spirits - Ruski



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31 Jul 2025, 2:53 pm

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cyberdora wrote:
Fair enough, when I visited Europe I found what is national cuisine/drink and what the locals eat/drink are not necessarily same. For example French and Swiss people eat Italian food and love Italian wine. Englishmen love curry :lol: .


Well, my dad's people way back when had picked up borst from the Russians, so I guess vodka is a possibility after all.

My general impression in Europe is popular food and wine = southern European (pasta and pizza is very popular everywhere)
Popular beers = Czech, Belgian, English and German
Popular spirits - Ruski


I agree.


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31 Jul 2025, 8:17 pm

When I saw the topic title, I thought you were talking about places with dry climates.

I really don't know much about this. I have never drank so I haven't even paid attention to laws or what is and what is not in stores.


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31 Jul 2025, 11:17 pm

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When I saw the topic title, I thought you were talking about places with dry climates.

I really don't know much about this. I have never drank so I haven't even paid attention to laws or what is and what is not in stores.


I feel extremely embarrassed now! I also thought "dry" referred to climate and terrain. :oops:


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01 Aug 2025, 3:52 am

We get a dry climate and no alcohol sold.

Around here, 30% humidity in the daytime generally means that it is raining.

I love it.

Allergies are much less of a problem. When I lived in a more humid area, I needed over the counter allergy medicines at least twice a week.

And we generally don't need air conditioning -- evaporative cooling works great and requires far less electricity.

And with no alcohol sales, we have much fewer problems with drunks and criminals.



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01 Aug 2025, 4:08 am

^^^
I concede, I love my alcohol too much to be happy in a "dry" environment.
In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald (and I might be paraphrasing here): "Alcohol, the curse of the writing class. Or writing, the curse of the drinking class."


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01 Aug 2025, 4:44 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
^^^
I concede, I love my alcohol too much to be happy in a "dry" environment.
In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald (and I might be paraphrasing here): "Alcohol, the curse of the writing class. Or writing, the curse of the drinking class."


Dry doesn't mean you can't have alcohol -- only that you have to go somewhere else to buy it.

From the farm, it is only a 20 mile drive to buy alcohol. There used to be a beer store about a mile across the county line, but it didn't get enough business and had to close.



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01 Aug 2025, 5:00 am

kokopelli wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
^^^
I concede, I love my alcohol too much to be happy in a "dry" environment.
In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald (and I might be paraphrasing here): "Alcohol, the curse of the writing class. Or writing, the curse of the drinking class."


Dry doesn't mean you can't have alcohol -- only that you have to go somewhere else to buy it.

From the farm, it is only a 20 mile drive to buy alcohol. There used to be a beer store about a mile across the county line, but it didn't get enough business and had to close.

Some places like certain counties in Mississippi ban possession of alcohol even when passing through. Also a lot of Native American Reservations are like that too. Other areas of the country ban possession as well.



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01 Aug 2025, 5:51 am

kokopelli wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
^^^
I concede, I love my alcohol too much to be happy in a "dry" environment.
In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald (and I might be paraphrasing here): "Alcohol, the curse of the writing class. Or writing, the curse of the drinking class."


Dry doesn't mean you can't have alcohol -- only that you have to go somewhere else to buy it.

From the farm, it is only a 20 mile drive to buy alcohol. There used to be a beer store about a mile across the county line, but it didn't get enough business and had to close.

Never been there, but:
https://www.tripadvisor.in/ShowTopic-g30940-i2296-k4196553-No_sale_of_alcohol_in_Barrow_AK-Utqiagvik_Alaska.html


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01 Aug 2025, 9:23 pm

fircrest, Washington. heavily LDS. no fun allowed there.



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01 Aug 2025, 10:02 pm

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fircrest, Washington. heavily LDS. no fun allowed there.


Sounds like it. :o


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08 Aug 2025, 1:11 am

Nope, not yet. Only have lived in Texas & Minnesota and never visited deserts yet. Texas seems about as hot as a frelling desert though, but it's right by the gulf so it's a constant sauna of dooooooooom.


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08 Aug 2025, 1:38 am

Iamaparakeet wrote:
Nope, not yet. Only have lived in Texas & Minnesota and never visited deserts yet. Texas seems about as hot as a frelling desert though, but it's right by the gulf so it's a constant sauna of dooooooooom.

I didnt mean dry in that way. I meant dry as in not legally being allowed to sell alcohol somewhere.



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08 Aug 2025, 1:50 am

:) Support the Underground Economy , bann booze....JFK 's Father made most of his money running achohol back in the day . :) .


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08 Aug 2025, 1:58 am

Jakki wrote:
:) Support the Underground Economy , bann booze....JFK 's Father made most of his money running achohol back in the day . :) .


I've heard that in my dry town, you used to be able to go to a certain gas station and ask for a can of some specific oil and they would bring you out a fifth of whiskey or something related to it.

I suspect, though, that if the wrong person asked for the can of that oil, they would get a can of oil.