Booze

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

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In these parts "booze" means any kind of hard liquor, 80 proof or higher.

Ah righteo, here hard liquor is called spirits.
We don’t use proof as a measurement only ABV (alcohol by volume) which for a spirit is generally considered 40% or above.
Although some spirits hover around the high 30% mark.

 

[badjak]

Yeah,
Booze would be anything with alcohol here
Although the locals (rural areas) may call everything with alcohol beer or wine, incl gin, whisky etc
Like all softdrinks are coke

 

[TastyReuben]

“Booze” here can mean any alcohol, but context is always important.

“I’m going on a booze run, you need anything?” - that could mean anything alcoholic.

Walking into a wine-and-cheese event: “Wow, this looks nice! Which way to the booze?” - that obviously means wine.

“You want a rum-and-coke?”
“No booze for me, just a beer, please.” - that means spirits/liquor.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yeah,
Booze would be anything with alcohol here
Although the locals (rural areas) may call everything with alcohol beer or wine, incl gin, whisky etc
Like all softdrinks are coke

That sounds like it might be a bit confusing

 

[TastyReuben]

“Booze” is also a very informal term here…playful…whimsical, even!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

“Booze” is also a very informal term here…playful…whimsical, even!

It is here too. It mostly implies fun
But there is ‘boozer’ which can mean someone who drinks too often and down the boozer meaning pub.
When I have to go to family functions “Where’s booze?” is one of the first things I say

 

[JAS_OH1]

Like all softdrinks are coke

Wow yeah, that's common in SE Texas. "I'll have an orange Coke" does not mean a drink with any Coke in it. It's an orange soda.

In these parts "booze" means any kind of hard liquor, 80 proof or higher.

Yeah, same in Florida, which of course you and most CBs know is where I grew up.

 

[TastyReuben]

Wow yeah, that's common in SE Texas.

I’ve run into that in NY as well.

We may as well cover what purveyors of alcohol are called in our respective areas - here, we have liquor stores (which can and usually do sell beer and wine as well), state stores (which usually don’t sell beer or wine, just liquor/spirits), and everywhere else (carry out, drive-through, beverage barn, grocery store) which usually sells beer and wine, but no liquor/spirits.

Where MrsT is from, a liquor store would usually be called a package store.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

As you would already know, here everyone sells everything.
And our liquor stores are called an ‘Off Licence’ or affectionately referred to as the ‘Offie’
Supermarkets have pretty much killed off the traditional independent off licence. Chains like Majestic Wine or Bargain Booze seem to be thriving though.

If you live near a town or supermarket you can usually get any booze you like delivered to your door in about 20 minutes.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Back in Kent, "let's go down the boozer" meant a visit to the pub. A boozer is, as SSOAP says, someone who drinks too much.
It always seems rather quaint to me, how governments around the Western world pussyfoot around the subject of alcohol. From the Temperance League in the Victorian era, the Prohibition in the USA, only selling alcohol in state-owned stores (in Sweden, they send you out with a big brown paper bag so everyone can shame you), absurdly high taxation on alcohol, etc. Over here in Venezuela, they've got a thing called "Ley seca" (dry law) which they apply just before elections and, ironically, during Holy Week - when everyone goes to the beach to have a few beers and relax.
ALL of it harks back to religion; yet Jesus turned the water into wine.

 

[TastyReuben]

Over here in Venezuela, they've got a thing called "Ley seca" (dry law)

We’ve got dry towns here, no alcohol sales permitted…except for exceptions like the country club or a single big restaurant. It’s what cheeses me off about dry laws and Sunday sales laws - they say they’re for one thing (protection from the demon alkyhall), but they’re really another (preservation of commercial enterprise for a select few).

 

[TastyReuben]

Also, at least in my county, before any establishment is allowed to sell alcohol of any kind, it has to be voted on during election time. It gets very specific, as there will be a line item for allowing beer/wine sales, a line item for allowing distilled spirits sales, and further specifications as to whether the sales will be by the drink or in bulk/packaged.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Also, at least in my county, before any establishment is allowed to sell alcohol of any kind, it has to be voted on during election time. It gets very specific, as there will be a line item for allowing beer/wine sales, a line item for allowing distilled spirits sales, and further specifications as to whether the sales will be by the drink or in bulk/packaged.

I don’t like any of it TR.
America’s supposed to be ‘the land of the free’ a country that prizes personal freedoms and independence, feels like thats a law thats influenced by greed and moral straitjackets.

 

[karadekoolaid]

feels like thats a law thats influenced by greed and moral straitjackets.

It's religion, I think. the Quakers, the Puritans, the Calvinists, the Lutherans; all, ironically, seeking religious freedom!

 

[Barriehie]

As you would already know, here everyone sells everything.
And our liquor stores are called an ‘Off Licence’ or affectionately referred to as the ‘Offie’
Supermarkets have pretty much killed off the traditional independent off licence. Chains like Majestic Wine or Bargain Booze seem to be thriving though.

If you live near a town or supermarket you can usually get any booze you like delivered to your door in about 20 minutes.

I got spoiled in Las Vegas, Nevada. You could go to Walmart and there's a liquor section right there on the way to checkout so you could leave with your grub and alcohol and on the way out of the parking lot pull through the gas lanes and fill up. Next stop is Ammo Barn and we're done!