I found that out when I was cruising back roads in South I couldn't get beer for my lunch. The reason was " dry county rules" oń that area, near Cherokee in Tennessee. 

"How bad you want that beer?" friendly restaurant owner lady asked. "Well, what's the problem" I asked.

"We are DRY county" she said and explained local church and politicians make the rules. She wasn't happy about it.

"If you can wait my son will ride to an other county and pick up beer for you".

I said OK and sure enough I saw young kid gunning his motobike (w/o helmet - in South THAT's legal of course...)

I got my beer (she only charged a dollar for it) and lunch was very tasty but I couldn't believe how these tough "Hillbillies" put up these BS rules!

Also, in every back road bar near all were pretty drunk and drinking till 3-4am and nobody had "dedicated driver"...

 

To me visits to South was an interesting vacation. I miss Smokey Mountain N'l Forest and specially beautiful Blue Ridge Park Way at night.

 

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=+blue+bridge+park+way

-Click images-

On the other hand these kind of odd rules make US like 50 different countries!

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/dry-counties-of-the-united-states.html

 

 

How many of those people were ever away from home?

If you grow up in a small town of village and everybody is the same, then that's the way it is.

It doesn't matter if you are in Thailand, China, in the US or wherever.

 

 

7 minutes ago, GypsyT said:

I found that out when I was cruising back roads in South I couldn't get beer for my lunch. The reason was " dry county rules" oń that area, near Cherokee in Tennessee. 

"How bad you want that beer?" friendly restaurant owner lady asked. "Well, what's the problem" I asked.

"We are DRY county" she said and explained local church and politicians make the rules. She wasn't happy about it.

"If you can wait my son will ride to an other county and pick up beer for you".

I said OK and sure enough I saw young kid gunning his motobike (w/o helmet - in South THAT's legal of course...)

I got my beer (she only charged a dollar for it) and lunch was very tasty but I couldn't believe how these tough "Hillbillies" put up these BS rules!

Also, in every back road bar near all were pretty drunk and drinking till 3-4am and nobody had "dedicated driver"...

 

To me visits to South was an interesting vacation. I miss Smokey Mountain N'l Forest and specially beautiful Blue Ridge Park Way at night.

 

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=+blue+bridge+park+way

-Click images-

On the other hand these kind of odd rules make US like 50 different countries!

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/dry-counties-of-the-united-states.html

 

 

And, presumably, those politicians are elected. If the people wanted different rules, they would elect different officials, would they not? Texas had its Blue Laws that were repealed in the mid 80's but alcohol sales are still regulated on Sundays and some other days state-wide and several counties have their own regulations.

It's that darned tyranny of the majority again.

There’s more to freedom than drinking beer.

4 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

There’s more to freedom than drinking beer.

Yes, I saw it there.

The other one was Jack Daniels...

 

14 hours ago, GypsyT said:

Yes, I saw it there.

The other one was Jack Daniels...

 

Talking of which, back in the eighties, I did the tour of the JD distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.

During the tour, the guide apologised for not being able to offer us a drink, because Lynchburg was (is?) a dry county.

 

At the end of the tour he directed us to the county line, barely a mile away where there was an ENORMOUS store selling all manner of JD variations.

 

Mind you, to be fair, at one point of the tour he got us all to crouch down near a large vat and instructed us to inhale as he brought the lid down sharply. 

That was good... only time i've ever been drunk on fumes alone Hic! 😎😆