Trendy Beer Drinking
By ROBERT SIMONSON
Published: January 26, 2010
Let’s see. A satchel for carrying a 64 oz glass vessel for beer called a growler. The author of the piece casually inquires if the parents with ‘babies or toddlers in tow’ are carrying this satchel as a diaper bag. Another inquiry came to mind.
Is there something odd or troubling about parents packin’ up the kids and a half-gallon container then heading for the local beer garden? Oh yes, drink it there or take it out. While I have been in places where the take it out part would be a problem, legally, there remains the good judgment part. Why are the kids going with ya to slosh beer? C’mon, a half-gallon container. We’re not talkin’ sippin’ here.
Am I too old-fashioned or is there a problem with this? You might think the half-gallon growler was being shared with others. But when the article reports couples have his and her’s growlers polite distribution seems unlikely.
Okay, in defense of this arrangement to swill it is nothing new. When Sunday was largely a time to first attend church followed by family or community activities on the day of rest similar situations developed like the Saturday story above. Consider the church picnic or local baseball game or family get together where libations were also in attendance.
Maybe it’s nothing. But it just struck me as a bad idea. Not the growler part but the parents, kids AND growler part. You tell me. Is this much ado about nothing?
Stanford Matthews
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