Set-ups (was "Boilermakers")

Natalie Maynor maynor at CS.MSSTATE.EDU
Fri Mar 31 23:24:55 UTC 2000


Greg wrote:
> In Mississippi where I grew up,  _set-ups_ were served in clubs that
> could not sell hard liquor.

Which was all of them until prohibition was repealed after the raid on
the Carnival Ball in Jackson in spring '66.

>  Patrons would bring in their own
> bottles, and then order coke (or some other soft drink) set-ups to
> make a mixed drink.

It just occurred to me that "brown-bagging" might have been a regional
term since other places didn't have our (Mississippi's) liquor situation.
Was it, or do all y'all know the term?
   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)



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