Whole Foods: You May Sell Single Beers!
Via the Dupont Current, perhaps the city's most web-unfriendly paper, comes a nice tidbit on the popular P Street Whole Foods Market. For the past eight months, reports the community paper, this grocery has sold brewski singles "without major conflict." And so the Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commission has voted to allow this often-scandalous practice to continue. Even though the Barrel House, right around the corner, isn't allow to do the same thing–this 14th Street institution can't sell singles of beer or ale up to 40 ounces, says the Current.
Never before have I seen such yuppie favoritism. Barrel House, you guys should flood the next ANC meeting, as well as the next ABC meeting, and hit up the D.C. Council while you're at it. Get on the phone with Jack. If that doesn't work, block Fenty's SUV with a bunch of kegs. Preferably Heineken kegs.
6:50 pm
You're totally misrepresenting what's going on here. I was at those meetings, and the Whole Foods Voluntary Agreement was indeed amended to lower the ban from 40 ounces to 16 ounces, but contrary to your needlessly inflammatory post, it wasn't at the behest of some yuppie conspiracy. The change brought Whole Foods' Voluntary Agreement into compliance with the existing ANC2F policies on these things.
http://www.anc2f.org/abc-guidelines.pdf
I don't know the details of Barrel House's agreement, but if they are really outside the scope of the policies, then I can't imagine that the ANC wouldn't allow an amendment to bring it in line with their policies.
Sheesh!
9:24 pm
brian, don't let the city paper fluster you too much. they're editorial policy is to try to inflame. wemple and cherkis like to throw molotov cocktails through a different window every week. we're both just giving them the attention they crave by posting comments here.
1:45 am
Well, it's not like this is the first time Erik Wemple has been a little casual about the facts on the issue of singles sales. And it's not like it's a real paper, after all.
9:29 am
The ANC system should be eliminated. Plain and simple.
4:36 pm
wow TMS, thanks for that wonderful insight. care to back it up with some reasoning, or are you just going to give us snippets of how your beautiful mind works?
4:37 pm
Heineken? (dog piss)
8:49 am
Call it yuppie favoritism, I call it alley pisser negativism, and I'm damned glad with the regulatory dichotomy in this instance. We all know who buys singles at Barrel House (street drunks and alley pissers) and we all know who buys singles at Whole Foods (belgian beer bottle yuppies and hipsters).
News flash: the regs can be changed when there is an obvious problems with how patrons are behaving on booze from that establishment. Conversely, establishments can be given greater slack when they have a complete absence of such problems.
Pretty logical.