# Question for guys: What "girly" drinks do you enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549 "2009-08-24T21:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/61 "2009-08-26T14:26:29Z")
I like champagne cocktails on occasion. My usual drink is single malt scotch, neat. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/62 "2009-08-26T14:45:04Z")
[Sidecar.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_(cocktail)) It was invented by an Army captain in WW1, fer cri-yi. He had a motorcycle and driver, and the sidecar was how he traveled to and from the bar. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/63 "2009-08-26T15:29:20Z")
The idea of “girly drink” is ridiculous. If you like something, drink it, and don’t give a rat’s ass about what other people think. I like lots of drinks – white and red wine, martinis, margaritas, Beam’s (“Smoooooth”) Choice, whiskey sours, gin and tonic, Smirnoff Ice, Woodchuck Cider. I don’t worry if some half-wit is going to call any one of them a “girly drink.” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/64 "2009-08-26T17:17:52Z")
Fuzzy navels. "Premium Malt Beverage"s such as Bacardi Silver. Wine coolers. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/65 "2009-08-26T21:10:26Z")
Good to hear whiskey sours are not “girly”, I often wondered about that when I ordered them; though when the bar tender adds the lemon slice and the cherry, I do think it crosses the line. In a post-Lebowski world, white russians can now safely be considered a “dude drink”. I think a lot of it can vary by setting too. Wine for example, if you go out to a club or are tailgating drinking wine can be pretty “girly”, over a nice dinner or relaxing in doors it is perfectly gender neutral. What about [Alizé](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliz%C3%A9)? Rap culture seems to have embraced it, but I still feel a bit silly when I buy it. Damn it is good though, like a perfectly mixed Sunny D screwdriver. Speaking of, how do screwdrivers qualify? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/66 "2009-08-26T21:25:08Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > Speaking of, how do screwdrivers qualify? So named, IIRC, because the guys on oil rigs mixed vodka and OJ with a screwdriver. Sounds pretty manly to me. I don’t care how manly a drink is. If I’m in the mood for it, I’ll order it. It seemed like a lot of us guys had Sloe Gin Fizzes, Amaretto Stone Sours, etc. until we acquired the taste for beer. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/67 "2009-08-27T03:47:45Z")
Are greyhounds girly? G&T are gender neutral IMO. I love margaritas of all kinds, but never if they are blended. I’m not sure that they are girly until they look like a slurpy. Also, salt is a must. I don’t like them too sweet. One must make me dizzy. I have to taste the tequila. Premixed store-bought mixes all suck, but the recipe on the back of Roses Lime juice is ideal. I think I’ve restricted margarita’s enough to be gender neutral. Sweet drinks give me a hangover if I have more than one. I don’t like sweet. ETA: I don’t think whiskey sours qualify as manly. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/68 "2009-08-27T07:52:46Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Just came here to say Malibu rum is girly. That’s what I would order if I were pretending to be a girl. > > It seems that few ladies drink gin; I can’t begin to understand that. This lady drinks gin, and so do most of my girlfriends. Last year, before my wedding I spent my hen do at a gin distillery, and the guests all got gin minitures as wedding favours. A male friend of mine once amused me thus: Jenny: G, I’m going to the bar, do you want a gin and tonic? G: Certainly not! What do you think I am, some kind of girl?! I’ll have a vodka and tonic. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/69 "2009-08-27T07:57:15Z")
Oh, and as the converse of this, a barman I worked with used told me off for drinking whiskey and ginger (the winter alternative to a G & T, for me), because “that’s an old man’s drink.” ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/70 "2009-08-27T12:57:27Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Fuzzy navels. I wondered if those would pop up. Just like orangy-peachy soda with 4% alcohol, I like the Bartles and Jaymes ones. Man, that even sounds girly. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/71 "2009-08-27T13:37:16Z")
My theory is pina coladas and strawberry daiquiris and such are “acceptable” at a radius of about 200 miles max from Nassau, Bahamas. If you’re on vacation in the Keys as a guy you can get a drink with an umbrella. If you’re in Atlanta, I wouldn’t recommend it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549/72 "2009-08-27T14:46:33Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > My theory is pina coladas and strawberry daiquiris and such are “acceptable” at a radius of about 200 miles max from Nassau, Bahamas. If you’re on vacation in the Keys as a guy you can get a drink with an umbrella. If you’re in Atlanta, I wouldn’t recommend it 😉 Except that Atlanta still has a Trader Vic’s, where you can get big umbrella’d drinks like mai tais that are decidedly potent. Jenny, glad to hear that you’re out there repping for gin. I knew there had to be some exceptions! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-guys-what-girly-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507549.md?page=3)