Package Store

Lemuel

Lemuel

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Do people really not know what the term "Package store" or "Packie" refers to? My friend said he was going to the liquor store, so I said "Oh, you're going to hit up the packie" and he had no idea what I was talking about. Then I said "you know, a package store" and he still had no idea. That is what I have always called it, is it just a CT and Mass thing or what? I was astonished. Stupid topic, but discuss.
 
Package Store is the proper/ common name used for a liquor store, at least in CT. That is what I have always and what everyone I have ever met has called it back home. I go to UVM and almost no one knows what I am talking about and I thought everyone knew that the package store was the liquor store, there is just no other name for it.I never knew it was a regional name.
 
what? i call the UPS store the package store but i don't know what you're talking about
 
if he said he was going to the liquor store, why did you then proceed to say "so you're going to the packie?" obviously he's going to the liquor/package/drunk homeless person store because he just told you. to save words you could've either said nothing and assumed he was telling the truth or just said "really?" i think this is a bigger issue than what the thread is about.

were you trying to demonstrate your knowledge of the term packie? like if somebody were to say to me, "i'm going to rhode island school of design" i wouldn't be like, "you're going to RISD?" i'd be like "cool" or "congrats," or, if i were still skeptical, i'd be like "really?"
 
See, this is really surprising to me. It's liek teh same thing as New Yorkers calling a gas grill a barbeque and Vermonters calling soft served ice cream creemees.
 
truth, children are actually unable to even see a liquor store while driving by, once you turn 21 they all appear
 
If I heard you say you were going to hit up the packie I would think you were going to beat up someone of Pakistani heritage.

Paki is a racist slang for Pakistanis in most other places. You probably shouldn't say it around brown people.
 
^Agreed Unicorn, completely agreed

no_steeze, I don't think you understand how I said it. I didn't say it doubting or asking if he really was. The term "packie" is slang for package store, so I was saying it in a manner similar to making a joke. I didn't say it as a question
 
I know that, it is also a derogatory term for Indian people. I learned this last year, in my senior year of high school in my sociology class. Even the Indian kids didn't know it was like the "n" word but for middle easterns/indians. I do not know where this term came from, but we all said it came from the fact that every person who owns a liquor, or "package" store is of Indian or middle eastern descent.
 
New yorkers are not the only people that do that. everyone here on the west coast have gas grills and calls bbq's. is that not a universal term?
 
hm. it sounds a bit like this is a play on words...if that is, this is a corner store run by immigrants, packie is essentially ...paki. which is pretty much...stupid.
 
It very well may be, but it is in no way intended to be derogatory. I don't think everyone would say it if it was meant to be derogatory. I have since thought that the derogatory term was derived from the the slang "packie" for package store. Idk, I have never seen anyone take offense to it, and I always say it just out of it being a normal word in my vocab. I never even thought to say "packie" or "package store" just to confuse people who don't know what it it, it's just what I call it.

It must be a CT and Mass thing as I said before, it seems like only kids from there are saying they know it on here.

 
so...if you guys in CT call liquor stores package stores, what do you call package stores?
 
I'm going to guess that you are talking about the post office/ UPS/ Fedex/ other shipping places.
 
Never, ever heard of that. Maybe it is just a CT thing. Just like my real name is John, but I go by Jack. Much more common on the East coast. But at school when a sub takes roll and the sub says "John" and I say "here," I am always bound to get a few, "where do you get Jack from" or "is Jack your middle name" questions?
 
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