Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:29:26 -0800
Reply-To:     Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
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From:         Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: Open container (alcohol) law & the Westy????
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Kelly Bauman wrote:

> In Alberta
> in the 80s, you had to sit down while drinking.  If you wanted to go over
> to another table you couldn't grab your drink and carry it over to another
> table.  You had to get a server to carry it for you.  This was the law
> although few people abided by it.

Some places here in Norway, if a bar is small enough, the bartender cant hand
you a pint of beer over the counter, but if he goes around the counter and
gives you the beer, still sitting at the counter, it is perfectly legal. Go
figure?? In addition, any type of alcohol ads is illegal, only low alcohol
beers and wines are allowed. If a brewery makes soda in addition to beer, they
cant even use the brewery's logo to advertise the soda. It is so strict that
even the brewery's own delivery cars and trucks just barely can use the logo!
All bottled wine and liquor is sold at state owned and regulated retail stores,
luckily we still can buy as much as we want. It is a crazy country.

PerL
88 Syncro