What are you drinking right now?

Those rules are asinine and/or hard to understand. With Whole Foods, pretty sure only one of their stores in NJ can sell alcohol.

 

Whiskey sour.

 

Hush your mouth!

Once the temp dips below freezing, I am a stout fiend.

 

Had the pleasant Christmas chore of picking up the champagne for Christmas Eve and Christmas hor d'oeuvres (smoked salmon on toast), a family tradition. There was a sale at local wine store. Only $30 a bottle for Perrier-Jouet. Not bad.
Am currently drinking a Cotes de Ventoux white.

 

Also had a pleasant chore, finishing Christmas shopping. Wife got two nephews gift certificates at Toys R US, and I figured it would be better to pick out something that they should like rather than have them have to go to the store. Think it was 12 or 14 registers and there had to be at least 40-50 people waiting in line. Considering that, about 12 minutes from the time I got on the line wasn't so bad. On the way, stopped at a liquor store usually don't get to and picked up 2 bottles of Evil Twin Michigan Maple Jesus. It is excellent. May have to back for a couple more. Was $10 at this place and saw it for as much as 14 at another place.

 

I didn't know any grocery stores in NJ could, but like everything else there it's probably a matter of whose palms you grease.

I've seen plenty of grocery stores in NJ with a dedicated cash register for booze, so it's in the store, but technically a separate a separate entity.

 

Don't think any Shop Rite or Stop N Shop or Weis can, Whole Foods and Trader Joes are the only grocery stores I know of that do. Haven't been to Trader Joes in a few years, last time I did go they seemed to have a lot more wine than beer. The Whole Foods in Paramus has a solid beer selection, and pretty sure they're the only one in NJ with beer. Last time I was there, they had a lot better beer than the one at Columbus Circle NYC.

 

My in laws live in Monmouth County. They've got Shop Rite, Acme, Food Town, Wegmans and Whole Foods in the general vicinity. None of them can sell alcohol, but the Food Towns have liquor stores inside that are technically separate even though there are no walls.

 

I know there is a Shop Rite in the town in which I grew up that has a liquor store that is attached but operates separately with distinct entrance.

 

In Massachusetts, everything was set in stone by whatever hacks were in the legislature in 1933. There's a lot of grandfathering. Not a 15 minute drive from my house, there's a damn gas station with a full license. Interestingly, people seem to get their gas there at afternoon rush hour. In the morning, they go to the station that's across the street that has a Dunkin' Donuts.

 

I am no sure of the reasons for the rules in NJ but 90% of the restaurants are BYOB, which is all good by me and Uber.

 

Opened a Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau this evening. Used to really look forward to/enjoy that wine, but no more. It sucked. Good thing we stocked up for Christmas today ... had a bottle of Apothic Red at the ready.