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ID for BEER?
Posted: 9:57 am, March 14th, 2011 in Downtown Eating
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Same age, and I get carded too. It's a legal requirement, and stores can get major fines if they don't ask for ID. Suck it up and hand over the ID/license. It's not taking anything away from you. The store owners don't make the rules, so don't get mad at them.
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I cannot believe it. When? When was this law passed? is it NY State or CITY?
I was born here and have purchased plenty of beer at supermarkets without ID. I don't believe Jubilee is required by law to ask me.
I will have to go on a mission and buy six-packs at various places to see if I am asked for ID LOL..
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Well congrats for standing up to the man. You're prize is the lack of a six-pack and an inflated sense of self.
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?? what? OH I left off the part about not really wanting the beer (a Becks Dark and a Sierra Nevada IPA) because I was already drinking Bloody Marys, and I don't carry ID on me anyway so I was not going to buy them if he insisted on it...
So.. Here I am looking for some stories of if it happened to you or not and all I get are insults..
Well.. I hope you're happy now!! trying to bum me out..
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KD1005, instead of lamenting ESNY's "insults" you could just mock him for his blatant grammatical transgression. Unless you are, in fact, prize.
:P
Also, it is a little amusing that you posted here on Midtown Lunch about being carded. I'm at the age where being carded is ridiculously flattering, even though I think I've looked my age since I turned 25 (a while ago).
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I don't think there's any requirement that a deli card each and every person. But I've been to bars where their policy is that everyone who walks in the door gets carded. And a point of fact, these tend to be bars that have a history of getting busted for serving underage patrons. So it's possible Jubilee market has run afoul of the long arm of the law recently.
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The law is actually that ANYONE that appears to be under 35 be ID'd.
Jubilee on John St. got popped last year for selling cigarrettes to a minor and actually lost the right to sell smokes for I believe 6 months, so you may understand why they may be a bit nervous. If they get cought again, it would be bad.
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accept it and move on.
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asking to see my ID is such a hassle. i don't have that extra 10 second to spare!
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i have friends in their 20's that have grey hair..one never knows...
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a) I never carry my drivers license.. unless I am driving .. which I am not.
b) Jubilee is not bar
c) I am a "prize"
d) went somewhere else and got a cool 5 LITER HEINEKEN keg!! woo! woo! no id!
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"Also, it is a little amusing that you posted here on Midtown Lunch about being carded"
err why is it amusing? because you were just thinking about it?
where else could I post but here and get such a knowledgeable group of NYers?
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It's entirely possible that the deli owner didn't know the ass-to-human age conversion chart.
I'm fairly certain the law merely states you cannot sell to anyone under the age of 21. No "if the person looks under 35" clauses -- how can you enforce an opinion? -- just "only people of age may purchase alcohol/cigarettes/hayjays in the back room".
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Yesterday I was at the Jubilee market at 99 John, and I grabbed a few beers when I was getting groceries..
At the register I was asked for ID! Me.. 50 years old with white hair! I refused and had him take back the bottles.
What is with this? Never before has anyone asked me for ID.. (even when I was 12)