That one is funny. There was a bar in the borough I grew up in, that I was kicked out of like 30 years ago.
Then about 5 years ago, this place opens up like ¼ mile from my house now, under the same name, but “south” because its about 7 miles south of the first one.
I just stick to the wings & stuff now though. Its pretty good for basic bar food, and close enough to home & work to be worth it.
Pizza Hut was the place to go back in the 70s…just like Ponderosa
Holy Shit, Ponderosa!
I can recall one occasion in my life, when you had three choices of free unmonitored taps (red or white wine and beer): During a weekend trip on a cruise ship in the 90ties. Appearantly this was part of the normal back then. As my memory can retrace bits and pieces it turned out as expected for all participants.
I believe this was part of an idea of selling a lot of cruise tickets for ordinary people (an early take on the “all inclusive” franchise - or more correct “all booze included”). This all may have changed after the Estonia disaster. Not sure though, as I have upgraded my cruise tickets on later journeys - and have yet to experience free, unmonitored taps (anywhere).
PA has some crazy alcohol sales laws and restrictions, so places are always trying to find work arounds, like “you can’t sell it, but you can give it away!” Or BYOB (bring your own bottle/beer).
There’s something about beer and sprits being sold at different locations
Yeah. Wine & spirits could only be sold at “state stores” for a long time, but they’ve recently loosened up on wine.
I don’t know too much about it other than that its complicated and expensive.
Go to West Virginia though, and its like the wild west! 
I only know bc I bought some alcohol for my friends and we had to walk an extra mile to get beer
There is still a functioning one in Kissimmee FL
Noooo! You? I’m flabbergasted!
One time thing. Senior year and a group of us decided to host a “””party””” to celebrate passing a very difficult class
There is still a sit down Pizza Hut in Fredericksburg Tx. They are remodeling to make it look like " back in the day".
MS does too.
You still can’t sell alcohol on Sundays. Sundays is for church ya know.
Heaven forbid you load up your pantry on Saturday and drink through Sunday.
You also can’t buy alcohol passed 10PM I think it is. All alcohol has to go through the state capitol in Jackson before being distributed out to the stores as well.
This is all the bullshit from government control intertwined with the puritanical religious garbage. The state still has a bunch of dry counties, but they have been dwindling as the old fogeys die off.
And I am not even a drinker. I have maybe a few drinks a year.
Surprisingly you can’t buy alcohol at a store in WI between 9pm and 6 am (beer until midnight), but you can go to a bar and drink it until 2 am (230 on weekends).
Unfortunately this is common throughout many parts of the US.
Hot take, but I think restricting alcohol is good. Anything that makes alcohol harder to obtain will reduce over all consumption → less alcohol related issues
It won’t prevent alcoholics or those insistent on getting it from getting it, but I’m sure some drinks were avoided because someone forgot that liquor stores were closed on Sunday or that there isn’t beer where spirits are sold.
Like @SkyzykS said, it used to be a popular family spot. It was fairly affordable too, since most families with kids could split an XL pizza, or do the buffet (which for kids was priced by age, little kids would only set you back a dollar or two).
They also had a reading program for kids where if you read enough books you’d get a free personal pan pizza. I had a teacher in elementary that would take the top readers (finished the most books) to pizza hut for lunch every month.
I think you missed this by a few years. It was pretty much done (the dine in restaurants) by the time I was a teenager (so early 2000s). It was awesome an awesome memory for me though. I remember all sorts of events ending with a trip to pizza hut.
Prohibition begs to differ…
There is no issue with alcohol, only the overconsumption of it. More and more research is coming out thought that says even casual, infrequent, drinking has a negative impact on the body. Will people listen and understand that research? Highly unlikely.
prohibition was a complete ban.
these laws are more of a way to limit through inconvenience but not ban. It’s sort of like not allowing yourself to keep tempting snacks in the house because in inconvenience of having to actually go to the store and get something stops you
So does processed food and breathing.
But, you know lol.
I think people know this and just don’t care.
The alcohol thing in the US is just so weird to me, as a Brit, I’ve been able to walk into pretty much any shop from supermarkets to petrol stations, corner stores, newsagents etc and buy enough alcohol to kill myself 10x over from the age of 18, with no restrictions on buying time or type of alcohol - which I did for best part of a decade, now T-total. Same with fireworks - over 18 only but no issues buying whatever I want over here.
Yet I was bemoaning the tobacco tax with a friend earlier today (I like the occasional cigar), I was looking at a fairly basic cigar (cohiba blue robusto) it’s literally 4x the price of buying it in the states.
And don’t get me started on the UK gun laws!
If only I could persuade the Mrs to move to the states I could sit on my porch smoking cigars and polishing my rifles all day long!
… but then I’d have to lift in lbs 