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From local Pacific Northwest taverns to the Canadian government, businesses across North America are ditching Russian vodka in favor of solidarity with Ukraine.
“THE SHOES ARE DEAD!! Starting Saturday, Evel Pie Las Vegas will be emptying all of their bottles of Russian vodka and replacing them with Ukrainian vodka!” said Eve Pie, punk-rock-inspired pizzeria Evel Knievel from downtown City of Las Vegas, posted on Facebook Thursday.The bar’s opposition to the Russian invasion includes a sale of donated bottles of Russian Standard at $300 each, with all proceeds going to the International Rescue Committee for Ukraine The leaflet adds that the bottles are to be “poured”.
Branden Powers, managing partner of Evel Pie, told The Daily Beast: ‘When we opened this morning we had a line of people to support. “They were so eager at 11 a.m. to shoot the scenes and do their part.”
For $5, customers can also purchase a Ukrainian vodka to contribute to the growing fundraiser.
“We will continue this publicity as long as Putin illegally occupies Ukraine,” Powers said.
A far cry from Eve Pie’s Vegas desert, Pine Tavern in Bend, Oregon, also joins the creative resistance. Bill McCormick, the tavern’s owner, announced that his establishment would no longer sell Russian liquor. He claimed to be willing to lose hundreds of dollars in vodka sales to fight off the invasion.
“Russia acts as if it were 1939 and enters Europe with all the forces it has in Ukraine. I’m very worried this will spread to other countries,” he told FOX 12 Oregon. In a dramatic move, McCormick slammed two bottles of Stolichnaya, which he then threw onto the snowy ground. As FOX 12 reports, Pine Tavern is currently only interested in selling Oregon-distilled vodka.
In a news release Friday, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario said it would immediately remove all Russian-made products from its stores and dealers. The LCBO, a Crown consortium of the Canadian government, clarified that “wholesale customers, grocers and licensees make their own decisions about the availability of Russian products, however, they will not be able to reorder these products until at further order”. The Rabbi concluded, “The LCBO stands with Ukraine, the Ukrainian Canadian people and the Ontario community.
The same goes for the Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation, which oversees wine sales in the coastal province, announced that all Russian Standard vodkas and Russian Standard Platinum Vodkas were to be removed from its store shelves.
“It’s completely directed against Putin. And I believe someone like him has no place in modern society,” Powers said of the Eve Pie-backed protest, adding, “Our focus is the people. Ukraine. ”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/vodka-dumps-and-russian-booze-bans-sweep-north-america-to-protest-putin?source=articles&via=rss Vodka Dumps and Russian drinking bans sweep North America in protest of Putin
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