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Arkansas Granny

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7. My parents rarely drank. It just wasn't their thing. They would buy a bottle of wine to

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 08:10 PM

Jul 2018

share with friends on New Years Eve and my dad would drink a beer now and then if it was offered, but they never kept alcohol at home. As I recall, most of our friends and neighbors had pretty much the same habits. Living in rural SW Missouri most of our social life revolved around church or school events.

I'm a social drinker and rarely drink by myself. I've done my share of partying and I've overindulged on occasion, but these days a couple of glasses of wine is my limit.

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Please explain this to me. [View all] no_hypocrisy Jul 2018 OP

I think partly is it was an inexpensive way Phoenix61 Jul 2018 #1

Cocktail parties? Not in the small cities in the midwest when I grew up rurallib Jul 2018 #2

Alcohol was the only recreational drug available at the time. procon Jul 2018 #3

Sure, The Big Book. elleng Jul 2018 #4

My parents never had cocktail parties Ohiogal Jul 2018 #5

Cigarettes and cocktails in 1965 LakeArenal Jul 2018 #6

My parents rarely drank. It just wasn't their thing. They would buy a bottle of wine to Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #7

My mother was a real estate agent in the 60's HeiressofBickworth Jul 2018 #8

Wine was rare until 1970s unc70 Jul 2018 #9

And the beer that was available back then PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #12

"Sophistication!" 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #10

Cocktail parties were not as common as you might think. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #11