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Leather District convenience store wants right to sell liquor in smaller doses
By adamg on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 11:44am
Sagarino's, 111 South St., could have a tough sale next week when it asks the Boston Licensing Board to remove a condition from its liquor license that bars it from selling "pints, half pints, nips or single cans."
In recent years, the board has made such a prohibition a condition of new packie liquor licenses because of the type of people who would be frequent purchasers of such products and the detritus the would leave behind.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in the board's eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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When I want to enjoy an ice
When I want to enjoy an ice cold bottle of MD20/20 before a long hot summer day around South Station, I look no further than Truong Thanh Market.
Nothing says Boston
quite like social stereotypes and fighting the war on excess and vice (or however they want to justify living like it's 1792) by making it illegal to sell alcohol in smaller quantities!
Raised here
and it's true; we have for whatever reason (s) a tightass attitude about alcohol. Even a lot of clerks in licka stores sneer when they see you buying bottom shelf, like you were a dirty heroin addict. dunno.
Ban nips
Not for puritanical reasons, but rather because I'm not sure a nip bottle drinker has ever actually properly thrown out their empty ever.
You can walk down any street near a liquor store and the closer you get, the more nips there are. Just look at Cohasset and Birch in Rosi - just covered in these things along with the BoA parking lot.
I was thinking the same thing.
Those little bottles create a lot of waste.
Well by that logic
they should be ban scratch off tickets while they're at it.
If there are known problem areas for litter, it seems like a pretty easy thing to patrol. Maybe some attention should be focused there? Or maybe a reasonable yet sizable deposit on them? Not only would that encourage people to recycle them, but you'd also have people picking them up for the returns as well.
That'd make too much sense though, so puritanical laws it is!
Fine with me
Let's put a $1 deposit on them. Any yes, scratch tickets are the boon companion of the nip bottle. If those also were somehow cashable or even more biodegradable, the litter would be halved in Roslindale.
Litter is not an easy thing to patrol. It's a death of 1000 cuts - we can't (apparently) justify the cost of enforcing basic traffic laws like running red lights, blocking the box, etc... and those are a more serious quality of life and public safety issue. There is zero chance that any litter law will be enforced barring a total change to a draconian culture like Singapore.
If we monetize picking up litter or significantly expand community service obligations to do this kind of thing, maybe but I've accepted pervasive litter as a fact of life in Roslindale.
Fairly regularly
I find myself coming home from work late in the evening on the T, stop to pick up dinner if I don't feel like cooking, then realize I'm out of beer. I'll stop in a licka store and pick up a tallboy of PBR or something similar, and a whiskey nip. I Like boilermakers. You would deny me, a responsible adult, this simple and legal pleasure, because some toss their nips (not a huge problem imo, I occasionally see one here and there) ?
Yes, but
Who normally buys nips and scratch tickets, and would you want them hanging out on your doorstep? Now, I understand this might not be an issue in millionaire neighborhoods like Back Bay or Beacon Hill, but it's an entirely different story elsewhere.
Well, guess what? In the
Well, guess what? In the millionaire Beacon Hill neighborhood, we have plenty of issues with the scum who buy the nips and toss them wherever and/or sit on the steps of private buildings and consume/loiter. Those nips/singles/scratch tickets draw a particular stereotype. No one needs that in any neighborhood.
Sure!
Seriously though, it's all about the litter for me. I'd bet I could find 40 of these on my street in Roslindale right now, with no effort.
Is a pint really much more than a nip?
I get nips (maybe I'm just
I get nips (maybe I'm just used to these ridiculous laws) but pints? So if I want to make some drinks at home I have to buy a liter or a handle??
Here's the barrel, the half
Here's the barrel, the half barrel, gallon, the half-gallon, pint pot, half a pint, gill pot, half a gill, quarter gill, nipperkin, and the brown bowl.
Here's good luck, good luck, good luck to the barley mow!