Boozin’ Blog

I know I tend to go on about this but the variety of silly laws regarding alcohol sales and consumption never cease to amaze me.

Last night I found myself in Mississippi. The night was warm and sticky and I wanted some seltzer – nothing quenches my thirst like the bland and bubbly.

Anyway, I saw a small liquor store so I stopped in found my water. I live in Missouri and I don’t often have occasion for booze buying in the great state of Mississippi. So I looked around a little bit – lots of wine, a very nice selection of whisky and lots of other sorts of distilled alcohol as well as the expected alcopops and mixers.

But not a drop of beer! Thinking that I’d missed it I circulated the little store twice to make sure that I hadn’t overlooked something. But no; there was simply no beer. I asked that guy at checkout about it and he told me that in Mississippi beer and other alcoholic beverages couldn’t be sold at the same location.

Where could I find beer? The grocery store.

Now what could possibly be the reasoning here? The wouldn’t-someone-think-of-the-children laws and the crazy religious laws at least come with their own sort of twisted logic but I can’t come up with any sort of reasoning that explains why beer must be segregated from other booze.

Amazing.

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