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					Originally Posted by  CliffFletcher
					 
				 
				In most of Europe and the UK people can walk around with open liquor. Doesn't seem to hurt business. 
			
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My anecdote - when we were in France and the Netherlands we bought cheap beer and wine from the grocery stores and drank it out.  Drinking at a restaurant was a bit of a premium.  So, I was generalizing that everybody would be like me and my wife.  Although, I have to say it always felt a bit awkward drinking in public, but in the future I would bring wine glasses to drink wine and not from the bottle.