From The Washington Post: By Abby Phillip
"Drive around the state of Wisconsin and you're probably more likely to come across a bar than a grocery store.
"For Wisconsinites, this probably comes as no surprise, given the state's well-documented culture of drinking. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel launched a multi-part series titled 'Wasted in Wisconsin,' which documented just how drunk Wisconsinites tend to be, and how often they don't know it.
"Stacked up against the rest of the country, however, the picture is pretty stark. Wisconsin's bars outnumber their grocery stores almost three to one, according to Google data mapped by FlowingData's Nathan Yau."
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/29/wisconsins-bar-to-grocery-store-ratio-puts-the-rest-of-the-country-to-shame/?hpid=z4
I'll drink to that.
No, not really
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Hit it!
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is Racine!
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos
Of nothing
He says his name's John
but I'm sure,
He's Juan or Johnny or Dic' or Lying'
And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole
life
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant Marina
The good people of the world are Downtown
On their lunch break, shop-lifting and fighting
As best they can in FUBU's and low-riding pants
They drive their rusty Buckets and Hoopties
Back to pay day loans,
the liquor store too
Well, they're nothing like Johnny and me, cause
[Chorus
All I wanna do is tax some one
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is tax some one
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is tax some one
Until the sun comes up over ReefPoint Marina
I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Johnny likes to remove the labels
From his forties of Natty Ice
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of Natty Ice as they spin on
the floor
And a gun totin' couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
[Chorus]
Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the Marina too
The matches and the Natty Ice
and the empty Downtown store
fronts
The dirt and the filth but
All I wanna do is tax some one
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is tax some one
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is tax some one
Until the sun comes up over ReefPoint Marina
Growing up in Racine and traveling to other parts of Wisconsin I did notice there was a bar on every corner.
When I moved down here, I discovered there was a church on every corner. And if you wanted to drink in certain places, you had to bring your own bottle. Quite the shock I must say.
That has changed and in most places in Oklahoma you can drink. Most places as some counties are still dry.
All of JUNEAU County has 3 Grocery stores, that I am aware of. The City of Mauston has 1 Grocery store, and 7 Taverns. I will take a wild guess, and say the County has well over 100 Taverns. Only 2 of the Grocery stores, are full service.
I'm wondering if the data is skewed.
How many grocery stores sell alcohol? Do they include the little stores such as Open Panty's? Many of them sell beer.
In Wisconsin, we drink beer for breakfast....
Down here you can get real beer at a liquor store but they can't sell it cold.
You can go to any other store and buy 3 point beer and it is cold. Makes no sense whatsoever.
And liquor stores only sell liquor. No soda, chips, nothing. Oh the insanity.
In the City of Mauston I didn't include the 3 liquor stores, and the 3 gas stations/stores that sell just beer.
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Beaches Bars Brawls!
It's Summertime at Racine's North Beach! Time to head out to Racine's North Beach and get sh@t-faced drunk and kick some A@@! Keep a sharp eye out for Five-0 and don't get arrested for something stupid!
*WARNING* What goes on at Racine's North Beach, especially as the evening arrives, is not Family Friendly. Keep a watch out for trouble if you go, and remember that the Drunk Thugs come out at night! Stay safe.
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