Here in Montreal you can go to the corner store and buy wine.If you're in the US, you might think this isn't such a big whoop....
But you can't buy wine outside a government-sanctioned store anywhere else in Canada. It's all part of Quebec's loose moral character: our booze is cheap and readily available... and we like sex.
And when people describe the good things about this city, inevitably one of them is "you can buy your wine at the corner store."
But then, something happens. You decide that you're too good for what we call "dep wine" (depanneur = corner store in Quebec, handyman elsewhere in the French-speaking world).
Too good for readily available, cheap, fairly decent wine? WTF?
With this now empty bottle of La Pigole from Cotes-du-Rhone (un "grand vin de France") I declare myself officially never too good for dep wine.
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alberta also has a loose moral character in the form of private liquor sales. You can't get beer at the corner store, but you can get it at the store next to the corner store. Hard stuff, too, which is where the dep fails - sometimes a lady just needs a bottle of vodka, and all she's left with is vodka coolers. sad.
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