Ok, Dopers…what characteristics define a ‘chick drink’, and what are some examples? I know there’re a lot of varying opinions on this (one friend of mine insists that anything other than a shot-and-a-beer is a chick drink - even a shot or a beer alone), but when somebody says, “chick drink”, what do YOU think of?
Anything non alcoholic. Jack Chick is a teetotal… Ooops ! not THAT Chick.
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A cosmopolitan, vodka, triple sec, cran
wine cooler
hard lemonade
Zima
Smirnoff Ice
Etc.
Anything that comes with an umbrella, anything pink or red.
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I define a “chick drink” to be anything that’s sweeter than a Caramello Bar, a few aren’t but you get the idea.
A Butter Baby is an example. Ummm, most men don’t partake in Daquiris (some do but it’s primarily a chick drink.) Those nifty premixed drinks that wishbone mentioned.
Oh and most of them are colorful and pretty.
As a real chick < snort > I drink beer. 
Oh my favorite “chick drink” is a Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum with RW Knudsen’s Pineapple and Coconut juice. I call it a tech colada because I use a natural sweetened juice and no ice.
Dude drinks tend to be strong alcohol flavored (brandy, martinis, gin and tonic etc…) While many women drink those too, I find most men tend to stay away from the sweet stuff.
Lemme’ add to that …
- Drinks with funny names, i.e. “Sex on the Beach,” etc.
- Light beer.
- Drinks colored pink or purple.
elmwood, FTR < giggle > I drink full flavored beers. My fav being Molson Ice (more bang for your buck) but love a good dark beer once in a while and other hand crafted beers.
I do like fruity beers, a good rasberry ale is definately chick-like but have turned many men onto Frambrosen which is a beer by New Belgium located in Ft. Collins, Colorado. They only brew it in October.
Anyone ever see the Kids in the Hall skit about the “Chick Drink Drunk”?
This guy got hooked on chick drinks at a party and soon he couldn’t stop drinking them. He’d smuggle a blender into the office closet and hide umbrellas in his desk drawer so he could make a drink on the job.
I always think of an old girlfriend who used to drink Tang and peppermint schnapps.
Hell, Ernest HEMINGWAY drank Daiquiris. In between wrassling barracudas, down in Havana and Key West.
Not Strawberry or Mango or Tutti-Frutti ones, but the original…rum, lime juice, and a little sugar.
Most fruity blended drinks kick ass. Plus there is nothing better when eating Mexican food than a Margarita. Piña Coladas, Daqueries, and those funky blended drinks that have kiwi or some other obscure fruit in them are definitely a treat. If I have the extra two dollars to spend I will definitely indulge.
Wishbone,
I don’t know a man (or woman) who drink that don’t like margaritas. I mean the traditional margs anyway. I think because they have a sour quality with the slightest bit of sweetness (very slight) that makes it a universal drink.
Oh and I just thought of another universal drink…while not technically a drink (or is it?) the old jello shots! Very few men and women I know pass on them. Usually they are non-drinkers.
Speaking of Jello shots, I was thinking they might be fun to sell at an outdoor festival. I know it’s illegal so, does anyone know what I would need to keep them cold? Does Jello melt when unreferigerated, even if only for a few hours? I was thinking maybe I would make them in Dixie cups and place them gently into a cooler with ice.
Strike that. It’s really stupid to sell alcoholic beverages w/o a license so let’s not get off on the illegal aspect of it and risk having a perfectly harmless thread get locked because I messed up and mentioned something about selling them at an outdoor show. Mea culpa.
Fruit on a skewer, fruit juice, a crazy straw and an umbrella.
Eggnog.
When I talk about a chick drink, I mean any drink that is designed to hide the taste of the alcohol rather than enhance it. So a real margarita isn’t a chick drink, because it definitely tastes like tequila, but the frozen strawberry kind is a chick drink for sure.
I think some drinks get an unfair rap as a chick drink – a good planter’s punch is a wonderful way to showcase the rum, although the name “punch” seems to push it into the chick drink category.
Any drink that is either sickly sweet, or of a color that does not appear in nature.
elmwood wrote:
True. It’s a little embarrassing for a male to approach the bartender and say, “I’d like a Screaming Orgasm, please.”
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I drink full flavored beers. My fav being Molson Ice (more bang for your buck) but love a good dark beer once in a while and other hand crafted beers.
Marry me.
No? Okay … well, how about shipping a case of Fat Tire and Trappist Ale down to Florida? Elmwood misses Fort Collins beer …