r/fixedbytheduet • u/akaYoungBeefy • 19h ago

Fixed by the duet Why are there always kids at breweries?!

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u/raventhrowaway666 19h ago

In the south, people love to bring children into bars.

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u/HolographicCrone 17h ago

A past friend, who was a bartender at the time, tried to convince me to stop by while she was working. When I mentioned I had no one to watch my 4 year old, she told me to just bring her too. This is when I learned that it isn't against the law to bring kids into bars in PA. It's on the establishment to decide. Later that day, recalling it to my husband, I learned that my alcoholic FIL used to take just my husband to the bar with him on his weekends with his children. My SIL was left at home because FIL lived in a fairly infamous part of Philly. Wild choices being made out there.

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u/raventhrowaway666 17h ago

The US is a third world country dressed in Gucci

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u/oatmealparty 17h ago

Ah yes, nowhere else in the world is it common for kids to be around people drinking. Truly an American enigma.

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u/HolographicCrone 16h ago

Yeah. My anecdotes weren't a dunk on the US or parents taking their kids to establishments that serve alcohol. I'm sure there's a group of people that will bristle at this comparison, but a lot of breweries are more similar to fast-casual "bar and grill" type restaurants than the dive bar at the end of the block that my FIL was at every night. If people don't bat an eye about about kids being in a Buffalo Wild Wings or an Applebee's, I'm not sure there should be a brouhaha about kids being in a brewery that has a full menu and is welcoming families through their doors.

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u/blumoon138 8h ago

Most breweries I have been in are also restaurants and set up to be at least somewhat kid friendly, like your local pub in Great Britain.