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Compassionate Connoisseur
9252
Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:32 pm
Dobbs Ferry, NY (NYC metro)
Hoke wrote:Until just recently, in North Carolina retail you could buy 750ml and 1.75ml bottles of spirits----but in a bar or club, if you order a mixed drink or cocktail, it had to be served from a 50ml miniature bottle! (I am not making this stuff up.)
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Sparkling Red Riding Hood
1411
Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:48 am
Adelaide, South Australia
fined $10,000 for selling wine gift bags
Shlomo R wrote:I find it rather odd that in New York State, you cannot sell beer in the same store as wine and liquor. Beer gets sold by stores selling soda. Anyone care to propose a theory on the logic behind that?
Shlomo R wrote:I find it rather odd that in New York State, you cannot sell beer in the same store as wine and liquor. Beer gets sold by stores selling soda. Anyone care to propose a theory on the logic behind that?
He put the 'bar' in 'barrister'
5935
Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:31 pm
Vancouver BC
Shlomo R wrote: Beer gets sold by stores selling soda. Anyone care to propose a theory on the logic behind that?
Compassionate Connoisseur
9252
Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:32 pm
Dobbs Ferry, NY (NYC metro)
Mike B. wrote:Here in the supposedly free-market driven Alberta, my favourite wine store has just been informed they can no longer carry Coppola's Sofia blanc de blanc in cans because the 187 mL size is an odd number. For some reason, odd numbers for wine are verboten for retailers, but allowed in a restaurant or bar.
And to point out the inconsistency in the rules, a bottle of beer is 341mL.
Mike B. wrote:they can no longer carry Coppola's Sofia blanc de blanc in cans because the 187 mL size is an odd number. For some reason, odd numbers for wine are verboten for retailers, but allowed in a restaurant or bar.
Peter May wrote:Arithmetic is not my strong point, but isn't 75cl an odd number? And if they use ml instead of cl, then what about half bottles of 375ml?
Compassionate Connoisseur
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Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:32 pm
Dobbs Ferry, NY (NYC metro)
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