28.9.04

Mini bottles:

While watching The Daily Show last night, I learned that South Carolina's constitution requires that alcohol served in restaurants and bars come from un-opened mini-bottles (so one drink=one mini bottle). God, what a stupid law. Not only does it make it impossible to buy one Long Island Ice Tea (since it requires 4 different kinds of alcohol, and 4 mini-bottles is larger than a glass), but, more indefensibly, it increases the amount of trash generated by bars and also probably has something to do with South Carolina's high rate of alcohol-caused road fatalities since drinks in SC are twice as strong as elsewhere. You have to wonder what could possibly be the reason for such a constitutional provision, other than to make sure that the liquor industry makes more money.

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