That’s why it’s so popular in Quebec.
I only visited Montreal once in my life, for a very short conference during which I managed to get a stomach bug or something else, so I didn’t get to explore the city much at all 
I’d love to come back some time… preferably in the spring vs. November 
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Hopefully you will be able to come back one day when the weather is nicer. Agreed November isn’t the best time to come up to anywhere in Canada since the weather can be hit or miss. It could be unseasonably cold or not or we may or may not get a snow storm at that time of year. If you can ever come up in the spring or fall the weather is bound to be pleasant and there are lots of nice places to walk to - the Old Port (Old Montreal) or Mount Royal for example. There are also lots of nice restaurants and culture in the city.
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I made the huge mistake of honoring our rez at APDC, despite feeling awful.
Bad idea.
Good idea. I heard it’s not up to scratch.
Oh, this was well over a decade ago, before its apparent decline. It was a bad idea bc I shouldn’t have been eating anything given my feeling icky. Waste of money.
I use it to braise meats.
I just checked my Prosecco and it still makes a big pop when I remove the cork, so I’ll either have a French 75 or a Campari Spritz. There is also a Pomegranate Spritz but I only have molasses. I wonder how that would taste?
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I grew up in California, where you could buy just about anything at any time anywhere with a license (everything from beer to hard liquor at supermarkets and drugstores, for example). Locally, the only limitation was no actual liquor stores or keg sales within a mile of the university campus, but a corner store a block from one side of campus sold beer and liquor. All that to say New York’s blue laws were an adjustment when I moved to Manhattan. Beer or cider only at supermarkets, but not at liquor stores/bottle shops, which sell wine and liquor and non-food accessories, but can’t sell any food or mixers, and at the time I lived there, had to close on Sundays and holidays. And only one store per owner, so no chains like to Total Wine, and why TJ’s and WF had one separate-entrance wine shop in the whole state. But on the flip side, bars can serve till 4 am.
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And moving from NYC to California produced the opposite reaction in me–yay, booze everywhere!
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You can buy booze almost anywhere in Germany — gas stations, McDonald’s, supermarkets, newspaper kiosks, etc.
When I first moved to PA, liquor stores were closed on Sundays (and a handful of xtians protested the law change for a few weekends until they presumably found a more thrilling cause 
), and you couldn’t buy any alcohol at the supermarkets.
Things are somewhat ‘normal’ here these days… well with regard to liquor laws, at least 
With Prosecco? Sounds like it might be a bit thiccc and, in my experience, prettttty tart
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Liquor laws in the US are incredibly complex - and I can speak from legal and legislative experience. Logic has nothing to do with any of it, unless you’re incredibly cynical 
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Cynical? Moi?
Why, never 
Me, too 
I have a batch of the Top Notch Volcano tiki cocktail from the Smuggler’s Cove recipe, that has been in my freezer since right before dry January started. I’m going to pour a float of dark rum over it.
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If that ain’t a proper way to end DJ with a bang, I don’t know what is.
I have a show tomorrow, so my options are a-plenty, but nothing nearly as exciting (cider, beer, wine, small cocktail selection).
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Happy 2/1. I did okay - cut my intake by 2/3. So…I drank like a normal person. I will probably continue to practice moderation, if I can stay away from the news.
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