Connecticut lingo... How do you spell package store nickname?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Packie

Packey

Packy


Believe it or not, just came up in a conversation

[cinematicdiversions]

1. If you are a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court.

Do not use you liquor store slang.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. No, i'm just a displaced CT Yankee from the working class

[MLAA]

2. Heaven?

[Scrivener7]

3. They're liquor stores in CT. Packies (sing.:packy) are farther north.

At least where my sister lives near Danbury.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Ok.. good to know! No one near NYC called it a packy.

[Tomconroy]

4. For my parents it was

always 'the package store, never the liquor store. I always thought it had something to do with Prohibition.

[CTyankee]

5. I just say the wine store. Ours has a large selection and has the non-alcoholic wine I like to drink

at dinner. It's called F.R.E. and they have a Merlot that is delightful. I love wine but cannot drink the regular wine because it made me sick.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. You're so classy CTY!! I've heard you write about this "wine" before

Makes me curious about it.

[CTyankee]

18. Here's an article in the NYT about a rise in drinkers of non-alcoholic wines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/dining/drinks/non-alcoholic-wine.html

I've shown it to the store to encourage them to stock a wider variety of such wines. I hope their demand increases and they can expand their stock. I'd love a non alcoholic Prosecco, for instance. I wonder if I could just order it online...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Interesting article, although I had to read a couple

paragraphs a couple times. Couldn't tell if they were touting or dissing it. I finally gathered that the concept was still a work in progress. As is the process.

That said, I'm with you! I hope they continue!

Don't know about ordering... If no alcohol no one should be subject to the rules about shipping to certain states.

[krispos42]

6. I'm in the NYC orbit, so it's a liquor store.

Maybe it's a Bastahn thing?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Don't think so... Since it was my friend in Boston who made

Fun of me for saying it.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. Booze joint. eom

[sprinkleeninow]

8. Likker store. Not package. eom

[femmedem]

9. I see it spelled packy and packie online, but mostly packy.

I live along the shore, not too far from Rhode Island, and we do call them the packy. There's also one in town appropriately named "The Packy."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. That's where I want to move to! Eastern CT shore!

But, can't afford Stonington or Mystic. And my #1 requirement is walkability! Coffee! Pizza! Neighborhood tavern. Been away too long.

[femmedem]

19. Look at New London!

Very walkable. I walk to work, walk to the food co-op, walk to the coffee shops. We're technically a distressed municipality because our per capita income is low, but we are rich in community engagement, progressive activists and the arts. Our mill rate is high but our property values are still relatively low.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Thanks. That is very good to know! I kind of think of Niantic

the same way. Like New London and Niantic and the Havens are interspersed between the wealthier shoreline towns of Madison, Mystic and Stonington.

One big plus in my mind is that in NL you can hop on a ferry to Block Island or Long Island too.

What's up with Groton? It looks really depressed there???

[femmedem]

24. Groton doesn't have a walkable downtown the way New London and Niantic do.

Thames Street is the closest to a walkable downtown, but in general Groton has more strip malls, more EB traffic, less art and culture. Niantic has The Book Barn; New London has good, inexpensive restaurants and lots of artists and ethnic diversity. Niantic's downtown usually has more foot traffic--not snooty but New London's slightly wealthier sibling.

[Ocelot II]

10. What's a package store?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. UPS

[Bristlecone]

11. Don't package stores also serve liquor?

Or is that just a bar with a package liquor license?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. No serving, no. Just a store to buy liquor and wine. I was

absolutely floored last time I went home to blue law state CT and some packys opened on Sunday.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Bodega.