Anytime the administration endeavor to banish something there are usually loud warnings about slippery slopes and guesses as to what perfectly reasonable American past - time might be banned next . If New York City ostracize trans fats ( as it did in 2007 ) , what ’s next ? Smoking in its park ? Oversized sodas ? Oh , right . It banned those thing too , withmixed success .
Perhaps the most infamous proscription in U.S. story was our interior experiment in squeeze sobriety . The United States ratified the18th Amendmentin January of 1919 whichoutlawed the sale of alcoholand many multitude were ( intelligibly ) not pleased . The one - year col between the ratification of the amendment and it becoming the apply police force of the landed estate led many masses in 1919 to chew over ( and joke ) about the repercussions .
Life clip fly the coop a number of illustrations in 1919 predicting what would happen after the law went into effect . Their most fearsome guess ? A mickle exodus . This “ Great Exodus of 1925 ” would be thanks to novel bans on everything from baseball game to pork barrel and beans :
No Dancing
No Golf
No Pie
No Kissing
No Theatres
No smoke
NoTiddly - Winks
No baseball game
No pork barrel and Beans
No Ice Cream
No Lemonade
No Candy
6 p.m. curfew
No chicken feed cream ? That ’s just about the sorry dystopian prediction we ’ve ever expect at here on the Paleofuture web log .
Of course , the 18th Amendment became the only amendment of the U.S. Constitution to by and by be overturn . Thanks to the confirmation of the21st Amendmentin 1933 , Americans could savor a drink again , though many dry county still exist .
What do you consider ? Will inebriant prohibition era ever be tried again ? How much longer will baccy be effectual ? Is a Bachelor of Arts in Nursing on heavy soda pop a good idea?If they can censor intoxicant , what s next ? No baseball ?
This post originally look atSmithsonian.com .
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