Free lunch and the liquor trade in American life
A Boston Post letter examines the free lunch as a pivotal yet controversial liquor-trade practice. It argues the lunch is a deliberate instrument, common across social classes, designed to spur drinking, with various patrons from loiterers to industrious workers sliding into dependency, and critiques the public accepts it as a convenience while recognizing its hidden costs.
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