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Friday, May 27, 2011

Booze / Chow It's a Three-Day Weekend and You Don't Have to Stock Up

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:40 PM

The state gov'mint says, "Most state-run liquor stores will be open on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30." Christopher Frizzelle's endless harping wins!* Here are your Monday-in-Seattle boozeries, open at either 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. and closing at 7 p.m.:

12TH & EAST PINE
7TH & BELL
4TH AVE SOUTH
BROADWAY
CROWN HILL
EAST UNION
GREENWOOD
MAGNOLIA
NORTHGATE
QUEEN ANNE
UNIVERSITY VILLAGE
WEST SEATTLE
WHITE CENTER

A full statewise list is here, drunkypants.

Also, eater.com has video of the 10 best barbecue disasters on the entire internet—I am afraid to watch these, personally, but enjoy. And be careful out there!

*He would still like to point out that he will be in California, where the stores of all stripes properly flow with available hard liquor long after 7 p.m. at night.

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I can't watch videos at work, but here's hoping that the barbecue disasters are as entertaining as the deep-fried turkey disaster videos that I watched last Thanksgiving. Nothing says "holiday" like setting your deck on fire.

Posted by Fnarf

on May 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM

We have a natural gas barbecue. I lit it up the other night, then when to the kitchen to go get the meat. I was only gone a minute, but when I came back, the grease pan had caught fire! Luckily, I kept my wits about me, and remember the grease fire movies from elementary school, and everything was fine.

In retrospect, we could really use a new deck. But years of hotel work (where you are annually forced to watch a horrifically realistic movie called "Hotel Fire!" ) have trained me to respond in a timely manner.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on May 27, 2011 at 1:10 PM

I don't even drink anymore, but it always irked me to be told what I can buy and when I can buy it - not to mention the where. Why are people so wedded to insipid, provincial liquor laws (remnants of Prohibition, really)? Why is Washington State - which is so open-minded about some things - so tight-assed about booze?

Yeah, I know. Taxes, blah, blah, and state employee unions, blah, blah, but hey! Whose government is it anyway?

Posted by Bauhaus I on May 27, 2011 at 1:15 PM

@1 They weren't as disasterous as I had feared/hoped.
A couple were really stupid people doing stupid things but nobody burned down the city or anything. I think they were drunk. And oh do I wish I had a BBQ!

Posted by Vince on May 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM

Damned if I know, Bauhaus. Some people seem to think there is no middle ground between the state liquor stores and inebriated toddlers roaming the streets in hordes. Apparently, selling liquor in regular retail outlets is New And Must Therefore Be Rejected, despite the fact that 32 other states manage to do it without being overrun by the drunken masses.

Posted by Geni on May 27, 2011 at 2:04 PM

Here's a list of the liquor stores in Denver that will be open on Monday:

EVERY ONE OF THEM.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 27, 2011 at 2:12 PM

Bauhaus, Washington state adopted prohibition before most other states.. in one Bill Spiedel's restaurant review/lifestyle books about Seattle in the '50's, he goes on a lengthy sermon about how the WSLCB protects the working man from himself. It's deeply ingrained here.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on May 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM