On 2010-04-11 14:43, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "John Mullan"
"Package goods" is a term used in the northeast US at least for
liquor. In Mass at least the law required that liquor when sold at
retail must be put into a container, hence "Package". Liquor stores
were called "Package Stores" and in the Boston area at least shortened
colloquially to "Packie" .
I think it's technically liquor for take out. Local liquor laws allow
bars with the correct license to also sell bottles for consumption off
premises.
If closing time / "last call" comes and you aren't finished drinking,
you can buy a bottle to take with you.
"Package goods"/"Package Store" is pretty common across the US
Southeast, too. Generally the local polity will allow "on" licenses and
"off" licenses for businesses that want to sell alcohol. "On" licenses
allow on-premises consumption of the alcohol sold (like bars) while
"off" licenses are for places selling "packages" to go (like a liquor
store). Some polities allow a single business to hold both licenses at
the same time. That does not seem to be common in the traditional South
(excluding Florida), though.
Heck, liquor in the South is such a big deal that some of the stuff gets
out of hand. I don't know if they still require it or not, but at one
time, South Carolina required that liquor stores be covered with big red
spots. They also used to allow sales of liquor only between dawn and
dusk, so the hours of the liquor stores changed every day. :-)
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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