{"id":39943,"date":"2004-03-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/31\/when-temperance-backfires\/"},"modified":"2004-03-31T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T07:00:00","slug":"when-temperance-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040331-00\/?p=39943","title":{"rendered":"When temperance backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A11405-2004Mar20.html\">  [South Carolina is] the only state in the nation  requiring bars to serve all hard liquor in minibottles<\/a>.  The minibottle&#8217;s place behind the bar is even enshrined in the state&#8217;s  constitution.     Mini-bottles are those cute little single-serving bottles you see  on airplanes and in hotel refrigerators.\n  The law was originally passed under pressure from the temperance  movement who opposed &#8220;free pour&#8221; because it created the opportunity  for bartenders to &#8220;sweeten&#8221; a drink.  By requiring the liquor to  come from a fixed-sized bottle, portion sizes could be kept under  control.\n  This worked great for a while.  But then social pressures shifted and  economics started happening.  Across the country, the typical size of an alcoholic beverage  started shrinking. But South Carolina&#8217;s drink size stayed the same,  because the size was mandated by law.  The result: absurdly huge drinks, like the Long Island Iced Tea  that comes in a pitcher.  South Carolina ended up with the stiffest drinks in the  country, exactly the opposite of what the original drafters intended!  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  The very people who helped West pass the minibottle law as a way  to limit consumption &#8212; the teetotalers and religious conservatives &#8212;  are now helping Hayes&#8217;s bid to abolish the law.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  The effort to repeal the law has been going on for many years,  but somehow it always falls short.  Maybe this year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  [Raymond is currently on vacation; this message was pre-recorded.]  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[South Carolina is] the only state in the nation requiring bars to serve all hard liquor in minibottles. The minibottle&#8217;s place behind the bar is even enshrined in the state&#8217;s constitution. Mini-bottles are those cute little single-serving bottles you see on airplanes and in hotel refrigerators. The law was originally passed under pressure from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-39943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>[South Carolina is] the only state in the nation requiring bars to serve all hard liquor in minibottles. The minibottle&#8217;s place behind the bar is even enshrined in the state&#8217;s constitution. Mini-bottles are those cute little single-serving bottles you see on airplanes and in hotel refrigerators. The law was originally passed under pressure from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}