Wine samples delivered to you door! NEVER MIND, you live in Maryland and can't have it
Hello Suckers, as Toots Shor Texas Guinan used to say.
Check out this neat-o innovation in wine buying:
Tasting Room packages samples of wine in 50 ml. mini bottles complete with miniature versions of the real labels. Take a look. And check out the samplers.
Great little gifts, right, an all-around appealing idea -- Eater even has a coupon for the the Tasting Room today.
Or maybe it's actually a very stupid idea, but you'll never know.
Because if you live in Maryland, the Free Sucker State, you can't order from Tasting Room. It's against the law.
If you lived in non-sucker states like Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming or the District of Columbia, you could order from Tasting Room
There's a sister-kissing direct shipping bill now making its way through the Maryland Sucker State State House. As it currently stands, it would allow you to order wine directly from wineries but you would still not be able to order from Tasting Room, or any other retailer, or a wine-of-the-month club.
That's what you get for living in the Sucker State!
Comments
It's a stupid law and one without any legitimate justification... on that I think we can all agree. How or why that makes us suckers, just because we have no choice but to abide by it (wink, wink), is something I'm not sure I quite understand.
hyperbole. I contend that we are suckers because we put up with it
Posted by: JohnM. | March 16, 2011 2:18 PM
Richard,
Why does The Sun continue to endorse the political candidates that have made Maryland the Sucker State?
I am not allowed to gaze upon the editorial page staff
Posted by: Ron | March 16, 2011 2:51 PM
Actually, the "Hello, suckers!" greeting was associated with speakeasy owner Texas Guinan, not Toots Shor.
YES!!!! Thank you. But this:
http://popcultureinstitute.blogspot.com/2009/05/toots-shor-saloonkeeper-to-stars.html
In keeping with that fine Manhattan tradition of restaurant owners keeping their celebrated clientele humble with a clever facade of contempt - a tradition made famous during Prohibition by Texas Guinan, who greeted patrons with a cheery 'Hello suckers!' - Shor referred to his bold-print friends as 'crum-bums'. Of course, he saved this sobriquet for the ones he really liked...
Posted by: hmpstd | March 16, 2011 3:28 PM
RG, you are awesome.
We are suckers, because we vote for these people, so they get get fat off lobbyists and ignore the people that actually voted for thier lies. We are suckers.
Posted by: stdhmp | March 16, 2011 4:10 PM
What gets me is how Maryland won't let you purchase wine over the mail or how many jurisdictions do not allow Sunday alcohol sales, yet the gov't wants to tax me 10 cents a drink? If they want to tax me on alcohol fine, but they better let me be able to purchase it when, where, and how I want to.
Posted by: Calvin | March 16, 2011 4:19 PM
that annoying sound is me still pouting b/c i have to ship my wine to friends in DE or DC. traffic is SO great heading to either of those destinations.
what cheese goes best with my WHINE?
Posted by: 21224 | March 16, 2011 5:00 PM