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Welcome to my nightmare: "Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes — a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown. In the days leading up to the shutdown, thousands of outlets scrambled to renew their state-issued liquor purchasing cards. Many of them did not make it. Now, with no end in sight to the shutdown, they face a summer of fast-dwindling alcohol supplies and a bottom line that looks increasingly bleak…. Come Labor Day, cigarette smokers will be in the same bind." [Via]
Uh okay but? If the state is shut down, can't the bar owners just be like, "Who's going to enforce my purchasing of this alcohol without the liquor purchasing card?" and just, like, buy the shit at Costco?
@jolie This is Minnesota we're talking about, so it's hard to know what will happen. On one hand, disobeying the purchasing card law wouldn't be nice. On the other hand, Minnesotans like their liquor. A lot of cognitive dissonance here. I'm betting on rioting in the streets, myself.
@SeanP You know what else "isn't nice"?? SHUTTING THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT DOWN.
@jolie Hey, I'm with ya. That was a poor attempt at a "Minnesota nice" joke.
It gets even worse: all MillerCoors products are being pulled from the shelf right now!
http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/125490398.html
On second thought, maybe the lack of Coors light isn't such a bad thing.
@SeanP Surely emergency convoys of tanker trucks are on their way from Milwaukee, and Colorado?
@SeanP Coors is a tough call for me. On one hand, it's got the best graphic design of all the cheapies out there, which is more important to me than it probably should be. On the other, I try to avoid giving my money to Nazi sypmathizers.
@iantenna Better graphics than Miller High Life? Better than PBR? Not sure I can agree on that one.
@Lockheed Ventura yes. but to be clear, i'm talking about straight coors in the can, NOT the silver bullshit. the only other cans that comes close are olympia, schlitz, and schmidt's (but the latter two you hardly ever see anymore).
@Mindpowered Eau Claire bar and liquor store owners are already rubbing their hands together in glee.
@iantenna Maybe you could just buy one can of Coors and admire it forever?
OMFG. WHY did I agree to a Minnesota holiday on Lake Superior?
Vacation starts Saturday. *cries*
@isadora_ink Just play a good ol' game of Booze Smuggling. Problem Solved. (The lines between pretend and reality can blur a bit.)
@isadora_ink If you are in Duluth, cross the bridge and go to to Shack Liquor Store. If you act like you are avoiding the cops and driving there on a revoked dl you get better service.
This sounds like a pretty good opportunity for an entrepreneurial guy who lives one state over and is looking for ways to avoid doing his real job.
@Moff Also, that kid (on the way?) could use a new pair of shoes, someday.
@Rosebud: Oh, he's here. He is loudly and unmistakably here. But I never got shoes, so I don't see why he should.
@Moff Oh, hillbilly style. Cool.
As long as the deep fried cheese curd supplies holding out, I'll just bring a flask.
Back when it was illegal to buy colored margarine in Minnesota, my dad and uncles would make bootlegging runs over the border to Iowa, where people didn't care if you wanted your margarine tinted yellow. Nowadays, I expect the folks dying for a drink or a smoke will just head to the nearest Indian reservation and stock up there.
I know who to get my Minnesota liquor from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OILrhjni-8
I just called my husband and told him he better stock up on his "Champagne of Beers" before he needs it for his fishing trip. He thought I was giving him shit until he read about it and then I get a text "What kind of fucking madness has this government brought us to?" and then "I got 4 cases because I panicked."
I guess we are set for the time being.
@SuperMargie Superior, Wisconsin is your friend. (kind of your wrong-side of the tracks, rundown, seen better days friend…but also your friend who will always take you in and give you a beer and a shoulder to cry on.)