Timeline for Why are certain alcoholic drinks sometimes placed in a paper bag?
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| Mar 1, 2022 at 19:38 | comment | added | Styxsksu | Also to show any label in a movie or tv show requires getting rights to that label so putting it in a paper bag allows them to hide the label easily. | |
| Mar 1, 2022 at 15:10 | comment | added | Darth Locke | While I agree with many of the answers here, I also think that *some of this comes from the American Prohibition Era (a time when no one was suppose to be legally consuming alcohol) in conjunction with film nior (brown paper bags were common ways to carry many smaller store-bought items and have become a symbol of simple, mundane, or gritty everyday aesthetic). Now it appears a lot in any sort of crime drama... | |
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| Jun 26, 2021 at 14:29 | vote | accept | Ahmad | ||
| Jun 26, 2021 at 8:45 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |