Florida is down to two dry counties. As pointed out in the comments, they are the two least populated counties in Florida.
Does Iowa have “dry” counties?
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Nope.
The state got into the liquor sales business decades ago (until the late 80's) and it was never an issue.
The state got into the liquor sales business decades ago (until the late 80's) and it was never an issue.
You can buy hard alcohol in gas stations here. 6AM-2AM Monday-Saturday, 8AM-2AM Sunday (assuming a business is open for those hours). No restrictions on mouthwash or vanilla extract.
Sioux county probably as dry as you're going to get.
Tell your wife to be prepared to be donked tomorrow morning while your at the office.
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Good God no. People in Iowa would riot over that.
You can buy hard liquor in Gas Stations in Iowa. Actually, you can buy quality wiskey, bourbon, and scotch in Gas Stations in Iowa. I bought a bottle of Blanton's at a Kum and GO Thanksgiving weekend. Also in Iowa there are drive-up cocktail stands and cocktails to go. Iowa hasn't had dry counties in decasdes. Iowa has had sunday liquor sales since 1973. Now you can buy a bottle of jack at the quick trip on Sunday morning at 8:01 AM.
It was actually quite a shock to go to the grocery store in other states and find out you couldn’t get liquor.
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Bullshit they’re all closet drinkers
I remember rolling into Sioux Center (Sioux County) for the start of RAGBRAI in 1988 and rode around looking for a bar. None to be found in town. No beer in the convenient stores. Had to ride outside of town to get a beer. That place was packed. State of Iowa does not allow dry counties anymore.
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I got s*** faced in Sioux Center the night before RAGBRAI started once. I’m not sure if it was 1988 or not. I think they’ve started there several times, but it was around that year. There were a few bars downtown, and I vaguely remember staggering back to the campground at Dordt.
I’ve posted this before, but the night before the Cap One game with the Tate to Holloway catch I was in Southern Indiana and wanted some beers. This was NYE, and I drove to a WalGreens, poked around the coolers, then walked up to the counter to ask where the beer was. I might as well have asked the lady where the child pornography was at. She sputtered out, “We don’t sell alcohol here”.
Same thing at the state park lodge on Magazine Mountain in Arkansas. The wife and I took a hiking trip, and it was a dry county. They sold beer at dinner, but you had to have some special membership to buy liquor. I asked the guy at the front desk where I could get some liquor, and he told me, “Well, if you’re into that kind of thing”… Out of spite we drove about 25 miles to this dump of a town called Paris. Cosmopolitan it was not.
Iowans will never judge you about getting drunk.
Sounds like some of ya'll don't know what the term stock up means.
Jesus, a pint for 5 bucks stuck in a back pack can be a life saver when you need it.
Some of you, I don't want to know sometimes. How dare you call yourself drinkers. Shame on you.
Jesus, a pint for 5 bucks stuck in a back pack can be a life saver when you need it.
Some of you, I don't want to know sometimes. How dare you call yourself drinkers. Shame on you.
Don't forget the hand sanitizer. Less corrosive on the stomach I'm told.
All their favorite bars are in the next county over.
Lol. The Dutch up there are all closet alcoholics. Fridges in the shop stocked full. They come down to LeMars or Sioux City to load up on alcohol because they don't want to be seen buying alcohol local.
Head across the river to Hudson, SD on a Sunday and you will see bars packed with Sioux County folks.
The county where I went to college my first year, in southern Georgia, only allowed beer & wine sales in the stores. If you wanted liquor, you had to drive, from the dorm, 8.7 miles down a 2 lane road that went from the sticks to deeper into the sticks. The property line where the liquor store was located was adjacent to the county line for the next county.
There was pretty much a mutual agreement between all of the students that you spread the word if you were making a booze run so others could place their orders.
There was pretty much a mutual agreement between all of the students that you spread the word if you were making a booze run so others could place their orders.
In a lot of your more Southerly states you don't need a map to know when you are at the county line. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing... Then, boom! Liquor store, liquor store, liquor store...
I'd like to think we were socially popular, but when we lived in the South we lived in a wet county (It was the state capital after all), but two of the adjacent counties were dry. We got a lot of calls on Saturday afternoons asking if we could come to a cook out, and, can you stop at County Line Liquors and get...
It's funny to think of someone doing this for social reasons and not because they're alcoholic and don't want to be seen by the same cashiers every day.
Buying liquor at a gas station requires you to get out of the car. A lot of states have drive-through liquor stores.
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The booze was a nice cherry on top, but the real draw was your wife's giving nature and skill at blowies.
Stopped at a motel south of Cincinnati once and asked where I could go to get a beer and a burger. I was told to go across the street for the burger and 25 miles north for the beer. There is a liquor store and convenience store right on the county line. They make a killing.
Believe it or not, here in Johnson County Iowa, they had a tizzy about poppy seeds. At HyVee, my gal pal and I had to go to the check out to pick up our poppy seed container. Bizzare. Now, it's back to buying as much poppy as you want. Seed that is.
