Drunk History

April 7, 2010 • 3:54 pm • POSTED BY Cory McCall

April 7th is Repeal Day, the annual celebration of our freedom to go out and get Mel Gibsoned anytime we want. On this day in 1933, after a long, dry, violent 14 years, Prohibition was repealed and alcohol was officially back on the market for legal sale, proving that the world is in fact a better place with booze. And I don’t just mean that in the obvious way. You see, in 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party pretty much built their whole campaign on the promise to repeal the prudish 18th Amendment outlawing alcohol. And that he did, within his first few months in office. He then proceeded to pull America out of The Great Depression, create several million jobs, get elected to an unprecedented four terms and help the Allies win WWII. All thanks to a belief that everyone should be allowed to walk into a bar and order their alcoholic drink of choice. So go ahead. Get out there and exercise your right to get drunk. However, if your drink of choice happens to be an Old Fashioned or a Manhattan, you may be in for a surprise. More to come on that story.