Who else lives in an area with restrictive blue laws?

In Minnesota, you cannot buy hard liquor or full strength wine on Sundays and the bars close up to 3 hours earlier than the rest of the week.

A GOOD blue law we have, though, is that car dealers are closed on Sunday, so if you are shopping for a car, Sunday is a good day to just browse the lots without growing carbuncles (I mean car salesmen).

I forget when that is though. Car dealers are closed too.

I would have never thought Minnesota would have tougher laws about alcohol than Iowa!

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Iowa had some real prohibition era laws in effect for a long time.
What I can't remember about Minnesota is what's the deal about these Off-Sale liquor stores? Do they sell higher alcohol booze?

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Wine coolers and those flavored malt bevereges in the grocery store, but for the harder stuff you have to go to the Lick Her store...

As far as on sale off sale, each municipality determines that. Some towns are pure munie towns, meaning all sales of liquor are run by the city, other towns allow commercial businesses to sell all liquor. Then there are towns that are a combination, for on-sale, they allow commercial businesses to apply for licensure but for off-sale, it is munie.

No car dealerships open. Of course, I guess we think most folks are Protestants and will go to church on Sundays.

I wish car dealerships were open on Sundays.

bars can't be open. In the eighties many bars found a loophole - if they served food - they could be open as a restaurant... and for some reason they could sell 'carryout' six packs and bottles of wine (at very inflated prices.)

You just can't go to the beer store. Maybe yours is a localized situation.

At any rate, I'm only a mile from Illinois, so I can get booze whenever I feel like it. (Stupid law, though.)

you wont find a bar that just serves peanuts and popcorn that is open on a Sunday. In the 80s they started serving food to catch the 'restaurant' loophole. Only because I remember (vaguely) the time when so many establishments started serving food in order to be open on Sunday that I remember this factoid.

At the time I lived in two hoosier communities (for college, and summer) same thing in both places.

Heck I remember visiting friend in Ft Wayne and driving to Ohio in order to buy 3:2 beer that was legal for 18 year olds in Ohio - but not Indiana.

I've never really thought much about it, to be honest. I like to keep my beer and booze at home. Easier that way, eh?

though that has slightly changed recently - now some liquor stores can sell on Sunday IF they close one other day of the week.

I always find it hilarious that the one city in the world where you can get a meth addicted 8 year old vietnameese boy prostitute with a bag of cocaine, a sufficient amount of dope, and who is willing to be hired to assassinate anyone you want and dump them in the Hudson while ensuring that the stevedore union gets the pay raise they need and also manage to put a few cargo containers on an unlisted semi and ship them to your warehouse to sell illegally to the city council, at any time of any day of the week, the city feels the need to be Puritan by not allowing liquor sales on Sunday.

That is ironic!

Also car dealerships are closed on Sunday....carbuncles...:rofl:

and bars have to close earlier (midnight instead of 2:00)

praise Jeezus

but I don't think it's actually a blue law.

All of the liquor stores in Washington are run by the state, and I think they're starting to open some on Sundays now on a trial basis.

As far as I know you can still buy wine or beer on Sundays---there are just laws about buying it between 2 and 5 AM (any day of the week) or something like that.