YEP. It’s a stupid law and the breweries are trying to get it changed but it will change how a brewery is licensed, among other things. Liquor licenses in NJ for bars/restaurants are ridiculously expensive and so that arm of the lobbying effort is pushing back against breweries. It’s so dumb, especially at breweries…

Mike Brady was an architect but somehow the six kids had to share two bedrooms and one bathroom between them?  Like, slap an addition onto the house, Mikey-Boy!

No, it’s always eyes open so you can see the exact moment they leave this plane of existence, gaze focused squarely on The Unknown while their buddy (because they ALWAYS die in their buddy’s arms in the middle of an active battlefield) howls at the heavens all “noooooooo! NOT JIMBO! He was my brother!”

Because New Jersey requires you to “tour” a brewery before having a drink, coming up with new and interesting questions is a hobby of mine.

I view scratchers as entertainment. I probably won’t win, but it’s fun to think about it! The rule in my house is that you can only use “found money” to buy scratchers - I found $5 on the ground one time and bought some scratchies, won $40 off of those 5 tickets and re-invested (lol) into more scratchy things. It’s…

It is the Champagne of Beers, after all.

Please tell every Midwestern mom on Pinterest who dumps a pound of cheese over some chicken and calls it “crack chicken” or similar because oh my god, Karen. Stop.

Fine, take your star, but go sit over there and think about what you’ve done.

100% of the people who describe something as being “OMG this is like crack” have never tried crack. 

That’s not going to work in places where there are “heartbeat bills” in place. A “heartbeat” can be detected as early as 6 weeks (maybe earlier, because biology is fun). Once they get that “whoosh whoosh whoosh” on an ultrasound, that’s a done deal for them.

NOPE NOPE NOPE AND FUCK YOU, BUT NOPE.

YEP. 

FINALLY, a reasonable response.

We get these at the farmers’ market when they’re in season and apparently so plentiful they practically pay you to take them. They’re fine. What’s-His-Name will happily munch through a bushel of them, despite the fact that he hates regular green bell peppers. I don’t understand him at all.

PREACH IT.

Yes, exactly. I am 20 minutes down the road from Princeton and when this comes up in conversation, everyone is like “USC? Really? Oh, okay.”

I have a question: how is this going to be enforced? Are they going to have a witness in the sonogram room to certify that there was a heartbeat detected? Are doctors going to be forced to report, and if they are, who is going to double-check that without violating privacy laws?

Yep! It has to do with the license a brewery is granted vs the type of license a bar/restaurant would be granted. The licensing as it stands now allows breweries to sell beer by the glass for on-premises consumption as part of a tour. Otherwise, they’d just be bars and have to have the different and far more expensive…

This is a good way to put it. My personal preference is “grapefruit with pine needles and pain.”  :)

They are classified as a brewpub, the licensing of which differs substantially from that of a brewery. Most brewers I know don’t also want to run a restaurant, with all the attendant hassles and risks, which is why there just aren’t that many actual brewpubs in NJ!