{"id":527,"date":"2010-04-30T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/why-i-lovehate-louisiana.html"},"modified":"2010-04-30T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:26:21","slug":"why-i-lovehate-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/why-i-lovehate-louisiana.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I love\/hate Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fellow Bayou State expat sends along this editorial from today’s Times-Picayune, concerning drive-thru daiquiri bars.<\/a> When I was courting my Texan wife, and told her about these fine institutions in my home state, she thought I was joking. She has since learned that any crazy story I tell about the Great State is true. Here’s how the editorial starts:<\/p>\n

Louisiana should tighten up its open container law by requiring drive-through daiquiri shops to use lids that can’t be punctured by a straw.
\nDoing so wouldn’t prevent a customer who’s determined to drink and drive from breaking the law. It’s pretty easy to peel off a plastic lid and take a swig, with or without a straw. But the change would make alcoholic beverages a little less accessible and make the state’s ban on open containers of alcohol in vehicles more meaningful.
\nUnfortunately, the Senate Judiciary B Committee unanimously voted down a bill by Sen. Dan Claitor of Baton Rouge that would have made it illegal to drive with an alcoholic drink in a receptacle that “permits access by a straw.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t decide if this is appalling or charming. Both, probably. Just like Louisiana. To paraphrase the great Randy Newman, “She may be a fool, but she’s my<\/i> fool.” Bless her heart. When I was growing up in the Seventies, among the useful things south Louisiana kids were taught to do was to mix Daddy’s toddies before a road trip, and to clean the beer cans out of the back of the fambly pick-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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