It’s definitely “ray-dee-ator.” But the western half of the state has an accent all its own.
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Tax offense.
Your description of the federal liquor laws being implemented is interesting because they made all states essentially equal.
Kansas was an 18 beer state but had outlawed bars serving liquor ever since Carrie Nation.
The effect of that was a category called private clubs, most mafia run, that had no regulations, no oversight.
Good times!
And agreed, thankfully we could drink in the Army 🪖
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And to bring this back to food . . .When I was in grad school in Ohio, my roommate was from Pittsburgh. Whenever we went food shopping, the inevitable debate occurred: Is American cheese white (yes in Philly) or orange (apparently yes elsewhere). One weekend she went to a shower in Pittsburgh and overheard a woman questioning what the orange cheese was. My roomie immediately remarked “You’re from Philadelphia, aren’t you?”
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Umm. I thought this was the Not About Food section 
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Sometimes I color outside the lines.
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You rebel, you
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See now that is sensible. I lived in N. Miami for a spell with my SO and two of our neighbors were homicide detectives. My SO told me Miami cops only worry about murder. Dunno about now. We also lived in NJ for quite awhile. There was a liquor store strike by employees which was a tad hard on my parents’ dive bar. They would drive their car with Penna plates to our apt in the 'burbs of Trenton near The College of New Jersey which my SO both attended. Then we took our car with Jersey plates to the fabled fun and lovely NJ liquor stores to load up. But not too much to avoid suspicion. Then do the old switcheroo. They never got caught but yes the cops were out there on the hunt.
The state of insanity? Sorry but I had to get a little dig in as this board is getting a bit too civil. I simply will not stand for it. My SO and I were living in Gainesville FL while he was attending the University of Florida on his navy benefits and I was delighted to see the kiosks you speak of. Beer, milk and bread. Oh cigs too. I would get a tall cold one that they would place in a little tall paper bag so the beer could not be seen. I had never lived in FL and it seemed magical at the time. Especially the drive up ice cold beer.
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Back in the day all my hometown taverns would make drinks to go. “Can I get five shots to go?” They’d pour them in a plastic cup and off we’d go.
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Was delighted when Wegmans opened here in Montgomeryville Pa. Now if I could just get tips on what wines to buy, remembering that I am the only one who imbibes in this house atm. Yes dedicated registers. You can buy wine and beer til ten except when they get wild and crazy and they allow you to purchase until gasp eleven pm
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Almost did a spit take when I read this. I grew up in a hometown tavern and no way would this fly. Joe my second father would have to explain over and over that no you really had to buy two six packs, put them in your car and walk back in and buy two more if you wanted a case of beer. Wegmans does this too. Wegmans cards everyone even elderly people with walkers. Funny at first but this gets old real quick. I have no problem as a woman alone walking into a dive bar for beer as dive bars are comfortable shoes to me but Wegmans sure is convenient.
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Hear ya on the changing laws. Once my parents took me for my birthday to the Plaza hotel in NYC so I could actually drink legally. We got a suite. When we pulled up in our not so posh car the doorman opened the door for us and Three beer cans fell out. After we got all settled in our sweet suite my dad told us he was heading to the bar while we ladies freshened up. My mom ordered drinks for her and me via room service. When my dad got back he was like “oops I forgot about room service for you two” It was an incredible trip, spirits were high and so were we. All because of the different drinking ages. 21 in Pa.
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In Penna if you dated a check with a sunday date it was null and void. I am not kidding. Everything was closed. We had a huge indoor market nearby that was somehow permitted to be open It was body to body literally on sundays. It was called The Mart. People got their sunday papers (remember those?) soft pretzels and best of all Fleck’s sticky buns. My grandfather Jack’s favorite. It was easy to see others’ purchases since we were so crowded in. No reusable shopping bags. I can still get me some Fleck’s if I drive my lazy ass to the Quakertown Farmer’s Market.
Librarians know how to party. My library has a beer fest in the summer and a wine fest deep in november. When the shit hit the fan around 2008 every one was hurting, townships included. So local police were told to step up the dui arrests. I know I know but they got a tad overzealous. Unless I have my DD along I never have even half a glass of wine out. Our neighbor had to pay thirty grand once. And see a therapist. One of the shop owners where I duel other mages has a drinking problem. His day job? A court appointed therapist. Shrug.
Conan tells me the police come and mark the tires of the wine fest attendees for easy hunting. Thank goodness they don’t do that for the staff Christmas party where the real drinking happens. The former director used to make this spiced grog. Omfg
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I thought librarians changed their title to Media Specialists.
I took some college classes at a Catholic university and we referred to one of the librarian nuns as the Sister of Bound Periodicals.
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You were probably a -35 then.
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We don’t drink and drive at all (although we did in our younger days) but OMG, is that even legal to mark tires? I wouldn’t think so.
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I always thought that was an urban legend. Although I know police were often in their cars across from popular clubs.
Like you, no d&d for me. One of my first “real” jobs was as a claims adjuster for auto bodily injury claims. Reading the reports and seeing the pictures would be enough to turn anyone into a sober driver.
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We have no checkpoint Charlies in Oregon.
Unconstitutional.
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I seem to remember we had them years ago, during holidays? I lived in Reno when dwis first became a thing and the cops would park across the street from the bars. I parked and took cabs. Whittlesea taxi had the same black cabs as London. I loved those cabs.
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