The Ebony Lounge

[DDD]

All I drink most of the time is Bud..........bulk beer

[Lil Me]

I think a 24 of Pabst Blue Ribbon is something like $12, if you can drink that crap.

[Sportsdude]

Cheapest places to by alcohol is in the Midwest where alcohol and cig taxes are basically none and any attempt at banning smoking or raising taxes requires a state wide referendum which fails miserably each time.

.25 .50 pitcher nights; 1.00 margaritas down at the 'corner' - there are no corners, corners don't exist- Mexican restaurant and usually a pitcher is 2-3 dollars. Whenever I go out I just buy a pitcher. Its cheaper. I don't even get half way through it because the beer sucks, but I don't really care. Also, I never finish those margaritas either. When alcohol is cheap, you tend to waste it.

It's a misnomer that the South has the 'cheapest' beer. They don't and in fact they have the most expensive outside of the Northeastern states. They're state run/controlled in most of the South with 'dry' and 'wet' counties. Prices are about the same as BC in Florida and North Carolina (at least for hard liq). And you can't buy hard liq in a grocery store (while you can buy beer).

The cheapest beer I've ever come across was in Springfield Mo where a 6 pack of Miller High Life was 2.50 at the local Wal-Mart. I don't touch that crap even if you paid me and instead paid for the usual import 6p for 7.99.
6-pack bottles:
'Domestic' 4-6  'Import' 7-10 'Craft American' 6-9
Wine 4 bucks

12 of Heineken can is rather expensive: 10 or 11 bucks usually double the mass produced beer.

 

[DDD]

.25 .50 pitcher nights; 1.00 margaritas down at the 'corner' - there are no corners, corners don't exist- Mexican restaurant and usually a pitcher is 2-3 dollars. Whenever I go out I just buy a pitcher. Its cheaper. I don't even get half way through it because the beer sucks, but I don't really care. Also, I never finish those margaritas either. When alcohol is cheap, you tend to waste it.

    It would have to be real bad for me to leave some behind................or I would have to be so pissed that I just could not finish it off

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[P.C.]

Ahhhhhh.  Just poured a nice glass of red.        

[P.C.]

[div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%;"][div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Lil Me wrote:  *knocks on door*[/div] [div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Hey PC!  Is this place open?[/div]

You know better than to knock.  Just walk right in and make yourself at home....and help yourself.  
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[Lil Me]

Thanks P.C.!

  Drinking Bud.

[DDD]

grabs a beer ........now where is the finger food?

[P.C.]

Help yourself.



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[DDD]

OK glad i asked only for finger food!

[Sportsdude]

@DDD
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Same thing happened the day of and the week after I went to the Mexican place with the cheap margaritas. Although I think I got sick on the plane that day. I had the red eye to Toronto and then my connecting flight.


Also, the salt intake down there is ridiculous.







 

[DDD]

I hear you SD         "It's like drinking water from Mexico but instantly getting sick instead of the morning after"

    that about sums it up for me for Mexico

[Sportsdude]

haha yes, about that's what happens to me whenever I go back to the states.  

[DDD]

 [P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]I have always wondered why when we go to places like the [?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /][st1:country-region w:st="on"]US[/st1:country-region] or [st1:place w:st="on"][st1:country-region w:st="on"]Mexico[/st1:country-region][/st1:place] we do get a bug from the food it's not like its that different than our food here.

[Sportsdude]

a bug as in a living thing or sickness?

If you experience the latter, the high rates of disease in food is generally related to the de-regulation or lack of regulation of public health and safety standards in all aspects of food production and preparation. You also might get sick from just not be used to the serving sizes or high sodium levels.