Waiting Outside The Liquor Store With A Two Liter

By Kleinheider Posted on November 4, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Frank Cagle on the liquor laws of Tennessee:

Have you ever wanted to start early on a Sunday for a picnic in the mountains, boating on an area lake, or horseback riding and realized you didn’t buy beer the night before? You have to wait until 10 a.m. to buy it—assuming you are in a county where you can buy it at all.

You go to the liquor store to buy a bottle of whiskey. Wouldn’t it be nice to buy some mixers to go with that? Or how about some really good cheese and crackers to go with your wine? No, sorry. The law prevents the liquor store from selling coolers, snacks, cheese, soft drinks or anything else that the alcohol consumer might want. This is the flip side to the argument for allowing wine in grocery stores. If you can get a bottle of red at the grocery to go with that porterhouse you just bought, why can’t you buy other things at the liquor store?

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