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"RALEIGH -- When Massachusetts transplants Carla and Scott Ferran made their first trip to the N.C. State Fair last year, they expected to enjoy beverages in a beer or wine garden. After not finding one, they stopped to ask a fair employee. "Here?" he said, laughing. "You're in North Carolina." "

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/05/23/495819/got-to-be-nc-haswine-by-the-sip.html

Yanks like this make me embarrassed

5/23/2010 7:12:23 AM

Not sure why you'd be embarrassed by being from a place where people think its reasonable to be able to have a glass of wine or a couple of beers at a public event. If anything, I'm embarrassed at the hordes of dumbass rednecks that make it necessary to ban alcohol from the fair.

That being said, if you want, I can start up a list of reasons why you should be embarrassed to be from the north.

5/23/2010 7:22:31 AM

I guess because when I think of the State Fair I think of deep fried cheeseburgers and milking cows, not a wine and cheese party

5/23/2010 7:28:04 AM

rednecks getting drunk and injuring themselves on rides is one of the best part of the fair

it's funny to see a carny with an air of superiority about him

5/23/2010 7:45:50 AM

there is nothing better than a funnel cake sugar fight 10 minutes before closing

5/23/2010 8:45:13 AM

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"Not sure why you'd be embarrassed by being from a place where people think its reasonable to be able to have a glass of wine or a couple of beers at a public event. If anything, I'm embarrassed at the hordes of dumbass rednecks that make it necessary to ban alcohol from the fair."

This is likely the result of people thinking their religion applies to everyone else. That's definitely why you can't buy alcohol at certain times on Sunday. People who think I have to follow the ridiculous doctrines of their logical fallacy based belief system are retarded. They should all be rounded up and brutally caned until the point that they forget what their religious doctrines even are.

5/23/2010 8:53:11 AM

^ orr you just wait till 12 on sunday to buy beer like every other person in nc..

5/23/2010 10:31:47 AM

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"They should all be rounded up and brutally caned until the point that they forget what their religious doctrines even are."

Should only take removing them from comfort

5/23/2010 10:33:40 AM

^^ Give me a rational reason why we should have to wait until noon to buy a beer. Just one. Go.

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM. Reason : *]

5/23/2010 10:33:59 AM

maybe so that you will go to church in the morning rather than starting in on that sixpack you want so bad

beer can wait until after worship!!!!!!! what's wrong with yOU!!?!

5/23/2010 10:46:02 AM

i always just got drunk before going to the fair

5/23/2010 10:50:20 AM

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"I'm embarrassed at the hordes of dumbass rednecks that make it necessary to ban alcohol from the fair."

AskedAxed and answered in the same sentence.

[Edited on May 23, 2010 at 12:53 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2010 12:52:05 PM

a.) At times, I hate Massachusetts as much as the next person (I'm not originally from here).
b.)

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"That being said, if you want, I can start up a list of reasons why you should be embarrassed to be from the north."

- Our equivalent ignorance (we have the same rednecks; they just don't have drawls)
- Boston Rob
- Wicked Summer (the upcoming version of Jersey Shore... in fucking Boston)
- Our snobby attitude

There's more.

5/23/2010 1:33:53 PM

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"I guess because when I think of the State Fair I think of deep fried cheeseburgers and milking cows, not a wine and cheese party"

Who said anything about wine and cheese?

I grew up going to the NY State Fair, which is about twice the size of the NC one, and the beer flows like water there. They also rarely, if ever, have any problems related to drunkenness.

5/23/2010 2:00:41 PM

Serving beer at the Fair would be great, but a "beer or wine garden"? I mean, the Fair is in October, but it's not fucking Oktoberfest. It seems that this couple had no idea what the N.C. State Fair is about.

5/23/2010 2:10:20 PM

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"this couple had no idea what the N.C. State Fair is about."

I've been here for 15 years and still have no clue.

5/23/2010 2:11:24 PM