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So weird to imagine being carded when you're clearly over 25 years old. I haven't been carded in all my 3 years in the UK. Don't even carry ID unless I'm traveling.
Remember Pennsylvania is a really weird about alcohol, the only store that used to sell had to be government run which requires scanning of id's and other than that you could buy beer and wine at restaurants so in that state they are hard wired to need ID. The rest of the country probably wouldn't care, I know my state just either doesn't ask or just asks you to tell them your birthday.
I experienced this a few times as a foreigner in Philly. Getting denied entry to a beer garden because I didn't have my passport (I'm mid 30s so clearly not under their alcohol age), or my colleague being randomly carded at a baseball game to buy a beer, none of us got carded and he did and his only id was his EU drivers licence, and he was mid 40s. It's so bizarre.