Friday, February 27, 2009
Drinks / Events / News Start Wining: Red White And Food Declares Blog Day March 2
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM
If you think you should be able to buy wine in Tennessee grocery stores, shout it through the blogosphere on March 2. Red White and Food--a group lobbying on behalf of the Tennessee Grocers & Convenience Store Association--invites bloggers to get the word out that Tennessee's wine retail law is from another century.
To make your wine whining more effective, Red White and Food has set up an online media center with logos--like the one here--and videos by Sen. Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro) and others explaining the bills that would change the current arcane law. Here's your chance to raise your voice and raise your glass.
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It sounds like a great idea to allow wine in grocery stores. I live in East Nashville and some of the liquor stores tend to attract drunks and addicts???
A somewhat uninviting atmosphere.....
.....it'd be great to hit a grocery store and feel a little safer!
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I posted mine here:
http://www.ulikafoodblog.com/2009/03/red-white-and-food.html
When I moved here last year, from Alabama, it was a big shock that there isn't wine in the grocery stores. It doesn't make sense to me.
It's a huge convenience and is definitely more comfortable than going to a package store.
Having moved here from Michigan a few years ago I was actually shocked at this restriction... I personally don't drink, but have used Wine as an _ingredient_ when cooking. It's 2009, isn't it time to remove arcane laws like this from the books?
if you think this is arcane, check out the move to limit adoptions to only married heteros. Wine in the grocery store (and beer in the liquor store, something the grocers behind red white and food have NOT included in their bill) was my sole legislative goal this year, but lord love a duck, this legislature makes it hard to believe we're in 2009 at all. Who do these government-as-your-nanny people represent anyway??
On the faintly bright side, if it weren't for these laws, we likely would not have discovered high-alcohol Belgian beer.
MTSU just released a poll of 629 Tennesseans, surveying issues from the national economy to the state's legislative agenda. According to the poll, 62 percent of Tennesseans say grocery stores should be allowed to sell wine if they are located in areas that already allow the sale of alcoholic beverages.
I don't drink at all but cook with Wine all the time, it's one of my least favorite things to do. Why do the crazy laws here force cooks like myself to walk in a building that sells nothing but booze?????
I don't get it!
Anyone who has been around for a while knows how long it took to allow liquor by the drink. Now, you have the liquor stores in bed with the Baptists in opposition. While I wish the effort a hearty yea, I hope they are in for the long haul.
Eddie Jones, former editor of the Nashville Banner, told the best story to nashvillepost.com about the passage of liquor by the drink a couple years back. The proponents had to hoodwink a represenatative from the rural parts of the district into voting. It was classic Tennessee politics.
http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2007/10/26/nashville_now_and_then_26oct2007
Anyway, we need an Eddie Jones about right now.
