Why do they put bottled booze in brown paper bags?

The Scientician · 07-07-2012 3:37am #1

I've always wondered. Is it practical? Some bye-law? Something else? I never bother taking the brown bag, it's just more waste.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 07-07-2012 3:45am

I love bursting brown paper bags and putting the heart across some poor bastard

Kurz · 07-07-2012 3:52am

Google will answer your question.

The Scientician · 07-07-2012 3:57am

Kurz wrote: »

Google will answer your question.

But I want YOU to answer it for me.

Kurz · 07-07-2012 4:01am

The Scientician wrote: »

But I want YOU to answer it for me.

So scummy scobey doley dirtbags can drink booze and not be arrested.

Google > After Hours forum

The Scientician · 07-07-2012 4:04am

Kurz wrote: »

So scummy scobey doley dirtbags can drink booze and not be arrested.

Google > After Hours forum

But that's only in America. Doesn't work here does it? If you sat in public here with an obvious bottle of booze in a brown paper bag the guards would confiscate it. Plus the scobiest people you see just drink cans anyway.

Kurz · 07-07-2012 4:07am

The founder of the after hours forum. All hail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDFRhu9Kao8

LH Pathe · 07-07-2012 4:16am

So as it falls out the bottom so the bum has to go get more.. it is bottle science. Complex.

Tombi! · 07-07-2012 5:51am

Paper bags aren't as bad for the enviroment as plastic?

I think that's true.

Otherwise: let's face it, only a dipso would drink cans at 10 in the morning. For all you know, there's a bottle of springwater in that paper bag of mine.

Biggins · 07-07-2012 8:40am

The Scientician wrote: »

But I want YOU to answer it for me.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090204094547AAMcGeP

Sugar Free · 07-07-2012 8:47am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV9MamysCfQ

Any excuse to post up The Wire! Their own take on the origin of the paper bag...

Jester252 · 07-07-2012 9:47am

So you can feel like a gangster

phill106 · 07-07-2012 9:52am

To hide your shame as you drink at 10am on a saturday morning

c_man · 07-07-2012 10:11am

It makes the booze taste better.

07-07-2012 10:16am

So when you drink it in the street and stumble around, you add that air of mystery to yourself.

checkyabadself · 07-07-2012 10:31am

If anything it keeps the shards of broken glass in a tidy bag when the carousing drunkard falls over breaking the vessel in which their Buckfast previously resided.

mahamageehad · 07-07-2012 12:18pm

So you can *pretend* to be drunk while drinking mountain dew! :P

I think it's probo either to keep your dignity if you're just buying one bottle in an offy i.e. so people mght think it's an expensive pinot not huzzar vodka. If it's when you're doing a big shop maybe it's to stop/dampen the clinking?

smokedeels · 07-07-2012 12:21pm

Booze users should hide their shame.

gurramok · 07-07-2012 5:17pm

One reason is to protect the bottles(non-brown) from the sun(when it shines:P). Also, have you noticed that paper bags for booze tend to be only packaged in off-licences that are not part of a big supermarket?

Tesco\Dunnes don't give them but Molloys always put your booze in a brown paper bag!

Why do they put bottled booze in brown paper bags?

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