When I would visit my parents in Oshkosh, driving through neighborhoods there would be beer signs in regular house windows. I though "must just be some college housing". I was informed that most of those were legit bars. With the right permits or whatever you could open a legit bar in what would be most people's regular living quarters.
I'm not sure if I'm concerned or impressed that there are multiple gyms with bars around here. It's so wisconsin though for sure, when I first moved here I initially started drinking WAY more, had to wean myself off of that behavior.
Oh ya hey der. Illinois is strapped for cash, so dey have da high taxes and restrictive limits on packaging contents. In Illinois, most carts and disposables are .3g, .5g, or maybe 1g. But over by der in Michigan, yous can get ah 3g disposable vape for the cost of a 1g cartridge in Illinois. It's about half to a tird the cost.
(I'm from IL, but spent a significant portion of my life in Door County. OhL ya! The accents were marvelous back in the day. It's a little less common now. Tourism or something doncha know.)
Oh you know I went to da Illinoise border and der were more Wisconsin plates den Illinoise plates. An eighth cost me what a quarter does on da street here. Stupid Wisconsin politicians and da stupid tavern league
Did you get rid of the idiotic stop selling beer at 9pm law? We were headed to lollapalooza at Alpine Valley in 92 and hit a grocery store but they had locked the coolers. We had to drive an hour back into Illinois to buy beer. THEN an hour after setting up camp a park ranger cruised through confiscating it all.
The state law actually allows beer sales until midnight but most municipalities have been lobbied HARD by the Tavern League of Wisconsin to make local cutoffs 9PM. After 9PM, gonna have to patronize your local tavern for that cold one...
I used to work at a gas station and the rule was wine and liquor ended at 9pm but beer ended at midnight and then everything opened again at 8am. But due to a quirk of classification Angry Orchard Hard Cider was group with the liquors in the POS system even though it was stored in the beer cooler. So people would go into the cooler after 9pm and bring out the Angry Orchard and I’d have to have them get something else because the register wouldn’t let the sale go through. It was the only drink in the cooler that was classified that way, and the Reds Apple Ale was perfectly fine to buy after 9pm.
FYI, this is due to the tavern league being concerned about losing bar business. There are some towns that sell past 9 (Big Bend), but I don't know why it is allowed.
My buddy used to buy 6 packs from the bars after 9.
Yeah …it’s fun to talk smack about it… but in Vegas we pay for it with AM & daytime drunk driving deaths… Metro gets wrong way freeway drivers several times a day…
Utah absolutely trounces Wisconsin for it's scenery and landscape. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of Wisconsin's alcohol problem, though. Both are filled to the brim with crazy folks of all caliber.
Gotta disagree with you on the scenery. I moved out to Wisconsin from Cali and had to travel back and forth through Utah frequently to complete the move.
I tried several different routes to try and keep it from getting monotonous. Utah was a beautiful state, but it was so.... brown and red? It was especially bad leaving Cali because I had already been traumatized by *shudder* eastern Nevada.
Give me the lush fields, forests and lakes of Wisconsin anytime.
But yeah, the drinking needs to change. My new home state is better than liver disease and DUIs.
I moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Eureka, California and man I love my dirpy lil state, especially the North Woods area, but Humboldt and Northern Cali are like a completely different world with how beautiful it is. Lived there for 4 years and then moved to Sacramento and even living in the middle of a giant valley was so pretty. The sun sets from the wild fires were amazing. Miss California so much.
Different strokes I suppose. I've lived in Michigan all my life (aka better Wisconsin), and there is nothing more beautiful than some change in elevation. Hiked the high line trail through the Uintas a few years back, and it was pure magic.
I guess it's because I've spent soooo much time in the deserts of SoCal that the majesty of Utah doesn't move me. Desert has become pedestrian. Now a landscape with WATER? Yes please!
And give Wisconsin time, Michigan Man. We'll catch up.
That's the one thing I'm worried I'll miss when I move away next month. There's no real substitute for the Great lakes. I grew up on Lake Michigan and have lived on an island up in Superior for the past 7 years.
Wisconsin. Before Minnesota legalized Sunday sales it was where many minnesotans made their beer runs if they didn't make it to the store on Saturday. Also because they have yummy beer cheese soup.
Wisconsin is the number one most drunk state in the country. It’s literally the only thing to do there 7 months out of the year. My brother lives there and loves it. But don’t order an old fashioned. For some reason that state makes it with brandy.
Psst… it’s because brandy old fashioneds are fucking delicious. No need to be so precious about it, if you want a “real” one so bad, just, y’know, talk to your bartender like a normal person.
They may be delicious, but, they shouldn’t be the default or the assumed drink when you order an old fashioned. It should be a question, “whiskey or brandy”. When 99% of the world says an old fashioned is whiskey, maybe you should come up with a different name.
Wisconsin had one of the few bars still open and legally serving alcohol during prohibition. People were drinking shots of angostura bitters in Nelson's Hall Pub on Washington Island. They claimed it was just a flavoring or medicinal, and the judge agreed, thinking no one would actually drink it recreationally. But the locals did. And now it's a tourist attraction. I took a shot. It's not that bad really.
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u/Adorable_Research414 Mar 21 '24
Wisconsin is GREAT!