Boston Bans Big Booze Bottles
Boston is trying to become what South Carolina was until recently–home of small bottles of booze. Boston’s not looking to shrink things down to mini-bottle size, but the city’s licensing board chair is on the hunt against full bottles of booze and, it seems, booze in general.
“This is totally prohibited and it won’t be tolerated,” [Boston Licensing Board Chairman Daniel F.] Pokaski said. “It’s not going to happen in Boston. It’s just wrong. It forces alcohol consumption.”
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Pokaski said [selling alcohol in large bottles] violates so-called “happy hour” laws that ban serving more than two drinks at a time to a patron.
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“We’re not New York and we’re not South Beach,” he said. “The city of Boston has a lot more to offer than just getting people inebriated. If all they can offer their clientele is just swilling down alcohol, then perhaps they shouldn’t be in the business.”
Hear that New York and Miami? Boston isn’t like you: towns full of low-class, drunkards. No, Boston is civilized, classy, and intellectual, and… hey, wait just a minute!
I’m not sure what bizarro Boston Chairman Pokanski lives in. The Boston I grew up just outside is hardly bereft of places that offer their clientele little more than the opportunity to drink alcohol. Bars, Daniel. They’re called bars. And Bostonians like them as much as the next person–maybe more.
More here. Bostonians, New Yorkers, and South Beachians, let Pokanski know what you think of him and his neo-Prohibitionist, d-bag ways here.
