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'''Meryl Stryfe:''' [Bangs fist on counter.] A banana sundae!
'''Milly Thompson:''' A gâteau mille-feuille with Ceylon tea!
'''Drunk Customer:''' [[Genre Savvy|Listen missies, the gag won't work unless you order milk]]!
|''[[Trigun]]''}}
One of the most widely used pieces of shorthand for telling the audience about a character's personality: have the character order a drink.
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Some drinks are particularly trope rich:
* [[
* [[Must Have Caffeine|Coffee]], its principal rival.
* [[Wine Is Classy|Wine]], reputedly sophisticated.
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* A working-class Brit will [[British Pubs|"have a pint, landlord."]] (Or, if we're establishing him as a regular at this particular pub, it'll be "The usual, Jim -- and one for yourself"). It'll still be a pint of bitter, though. He'll never order a particular brand; sometimes this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by a request for "a pint of the non-specific".
** Very good pubs may boast of many different ales on tap, but the regulars nearly always stick to a favourite ("the usual" or a fictitious name).
** Don't order a cocktail or
** Similarly, drinking your beer by half pints was seen as a sign of being a lightweight, albeit marginally acceptable in some circumstances: A [[Henpecked Husband]] or someone who's just not got time to linger in the bar for very long is often said to be stopping in for "a swift half" for this reason.
** The "a pint of the non-specific" trope was probably established due to the fact that brand names can't be mentioned on [[The BBC]]. ''[[Eastenders]]'' famously has a variety of [[Brand X|fake brands]] behind the bar at the Vic; other BBC series do show real brands but rarely if ever mention them in dialogue.
** "A broon ale" is a common order for the working class Brit when [[Oop North]].
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* The [[Ordinary High School Student]] will often order "Coke", no further specifics (maybe Pepsi depending on who's paid for [[Product Placement]]).
** [[Must Have Caffeine|Coffee]] is fast becomming an alternative due to the growing popularity of iced coffee drinks and the need to stay awake early in the morning.<ref>By law, soft drinks are limited in how much caffeine they can have, since they have the [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|kiddie stigma]] attached to them. Coffee has no such restrictions.</ref>
* By the way, in different parts of the [[Eagle Land|United States]], the standard term for "soft drink" [https://web.archive.org/web/20080811135425/http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html varies]. Most notably, in the [[Deep South]], the generic term is "coke" (occasionally "soda", in contrast to the more Midwestern "pop"). Conversations like this really do happen:
{{quote|'''Host''': Can I get you a coke?
'''Guest''': Sure. Have you got any Dr Pepper? }}
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* If you're dealing with Seattle, the '''Drink Order''' ranges from drip coffee (in a hurry, not fancy, maybe not much cash) to the ridiculously specific espresso cart order (and will be annoyed when the barista doesn't know how to make it). If he's drinking alcohol, it's usually some kind of microbrew or local wine. [[Almost Live]] used this stereotype as a surprisingly rich source of gags.
* An Orthodox Jew will be drinking the hideously-sweet (and just generally hideous) Manischewitz kosher wine. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when he attempts to obey the commandment on [[Jewish Holidays|Purim]] (to be so drunk as to be unable to tell "cursed is Haman" from "blessed is Mordechai") using this wine. (Never mind that beer or various distilled beverages could have done the job just fine and not violated any laws...).
* The Below Zero in Miami uses mixes (or unmixes rather) frozen in place with liquid nitrogen before being served. When it thaws it creates a rather weird texture or so This Troper has read.
'''Australia'''
* An Australian? Beer. No name beer, served in a glass, no matter where they are. Most Australians drink either Carlton Draught, or the variety of state beers which are only popular in each state and have only a vile taste in common. NSW- Tooheys New, Queensland- XXXX (which is where the name of the [[Discworld]]'s [[
** Not so! "Though Angus loves his whisky dear/And Paddy likes his tot/The Aussie has no drink at all/He drinks the bloody lot!"
** The main Australian drink is known as "piss". It's a generic term for any alcohol from finest claret to beer to absinthe to vanilla extract. Which might or might not slow down service if the bartender happened to be American.
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** If someone's done their research, a Mexican period piece set before 1920 or so will feature [[wikipedia:Pulque|pulque]] as a drink of choice for many Mexicans.
* In the Middle East, your choices are tea and coffee. And a couple of herbal drinks. And soft drinks. Because Islam says so.
** In reality, this isn't exactly true: while some countries, like Saudi Arabia and Iran, have [[Culture Police]] who enforce the drinking ban, alcohol is actually legal in most of the Middle East, if rather stigmatized socially in some places. As a result, you'll find the region's substantial non-Muslim minorities, as well as many secular or less-observant Muslims, indulging in... well... let's be honest, it's still hard going:
*** Every country that allows it has a single dominant brand of beer. These are rather different in some ways, but much like the beers of the Australian states, share a common vile taste. The most well-known of these is the Egyptian Stella (unrelated to Stella Artois and often pronounced "Istella"), if only because Egyptian movies and TV are so ubiquitous in the Arab world. These drinks are typically found in the hands of poor folk and the sorts of unpleasant men who frequent the bars that double as brothels.
*** Domestic wine and liquor will almost inevitably be a cheap and foul imitation of something foreign. There are two exceptions. One is Lebanon, where the Christian and secular populations are large enough (together, they probably form a majority) to warrant attention to quality. The other is araq (aka arak, raki, rakia, and [[Odd Name Out|ouzo]], and not to be confused with Iraq) the native liquor of the Eastern Mediterranean, a sort of clear grape brandy flavored with anise; the long tradition of making the stuff means that the quality is actually halfway decent (although not always). The foul, cheap wine and liquor are again associated with poverty and sleazy-looking johns.
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* Any race of warriors who wear fur and armour (from Vikings to dwarves) will quaff beer, ale, or mead—ideally from a drinking horn, tankard, or stein.
* Pirates will drink whatever's handy—but rum is the usual, either straight (when they can get it) or diluted 3:1 with water (called ''grog'').
** [[Truth in Television]]: [[wikipedia:Grog|Grog]] was for a long time standard issue on military ships at sea because the booze made the water safer/more palatable to drink. Lime juice would have been added to fight scurvy. These concoctions were also the forebearer of
*** For an extra kick and quicker recovery in a cold climate you can make your grog not with water, but with the strong tea. This itself is a variant of hot toddy (an old Scottish cold remedy which usually calls for whisky, but any brown liquor would do in a pinch; indeed, brandy, in some opinions, actually makes for a better toddy, although you should never say this to a Scot).
* Noblemen will almost certainly order a bottle of the landlord's finest wine with their meal. If they're not ordering a meal or courting someone, they'll have the finest brandy instead.
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* A pimp, a rockstar, or anyone who's flaunting his massive wealth, will order 5 bottles of the most expensive champagne, whiskey or cognac in the house.
* Teenage or young adult delinquents will have their soft drink with some sort of alcohol mixed in for extra kick. Rum and Coke is often the popular choice, and one of the few that doesn't get one laughed at after one can legally go to a bar.
* A young woman (or an effeminate man) will have a martini derivative such as a Cosmopolitan, or else a margarita derivative: sweet liqueurs, comparatively high ratio of mixer to spirit, lots of sweetened garnishes, maybe an umbrella in the glass. Expect it (the drink, the umbrella, or both) to be pink, blue, or green.
* An inexperienced drinker (probably young) will take a sip of a spirit like whiskey or vodka. On taking a sip they will grimace and immediately spit it out.
* The [[Cool Old Guy]] will take a Scotch or brandy (unless Southern, in which case he'll take a bourbon or rye).
* Farm labourers will order a flagon of cider.
** Similarly, the [[Determined Homesteader|American frontiersman]] will take a hard cider, or perhaps applejack (distilled or freeze-distilled cider, i.e. American apple brandy
*** That is, until about the 1810s-20s, after which he'll have whiskey instead. The hard cider would be reserved for old coots; see below.
* Middle-aged, middle-class women of the ''Real Simple''-magazine-reading variety will get together and drink white wine.
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* Real-life lovers of coffee, just actual coffee, will drink Turkish coffee and enjoy the grounds at the bottom of their cups. Also known as Greek coffee, Arabic coffee, Lebanese coffee, Armenian Coffee or a similar variation depending on the ethnicity of the restaurant. ''[[Serious Business|Don't get this wrong]]''. Ordering a Turkish coffee in a Greek restaurant is a dire insult, and vice versa.
** Though the last example may be more of a product of the unpleasant history between the Greeks and the Turks.
*** And the unpleasantness between the Arabs and Turks. And the Serbs and Turks, and the Armenians and Turks, and the Kurds and Turks [[Overly Long Gag|and the Bosniaks and the Turks, and the Georgians and the Turks, and the Greek Cypriots and the Turks, and the
*** There is, however some difference between the different kinds of coffees mentioned above, mostly in the spicing. I'm mostly accustomed to Saudi-style Arabic coffee and Turkish coffee, and I swear there is a world of difference between the two. One has a lot more cardamom for one.
*** As a general rule, if the cafe/restaurant is from run by Arabs/Arabic-speakers, they won't bite you in the ass if you order "Turkish coffee",<ref>Unless they're Armenian-[insert Arab country here], in which case ''don't'' call it Turkish coffee</ref> and while they might gently correct you if you call it Greek coffee, they (usually) won't kick you out.<ref>It helps in this situation that the Arabs, having for the most part the same religion as the Turks but living far away from the Balkans and having friendly relations with the Armenians and other Caucasians--who had and still have large expatriate communities, assimilated to varying degrees, living in the Arab lands--have no particular reason to hate any of their non-Israeli, non-Persian (long story, but Iran doesn't really go in for coffee that much anyway) neighbors, although they might get annoyed with some country or other from time to time.</ref> If the owners are actually Turkish, calling it Arabic coffee might get you a short lecture and bad service (and your coffee), and calling it Greek, Armenian, or other-Christian-country coffee will get you the boot. If the place is run by folks from any of Turkey's Christian neighbors, however, you'd better ''damn'' well know where they're from (particularly if the owners are from the Balkans, where besides hating the Turks, more or less everyone hates ''each other'', too).
*
* Nervous types will order decaf. If someone wants to mess with such a person, they'll switch the decaf for caffeinated, and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. A semi-subversion of the trope is the reverse situation, in which a hard-driving personality type or group of same has their [[Caffeine Bullet Time|extreme caffeine]] replaced with decaf. As ''[[Dilbert]]'''s Wally gasps among the fallen (asleep) bodies of his co-workers: "Must... find... antidote..."
** Note: hilarity may not ensue in real life, so don't try this at home.
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Sometimes though, characters make a special point of ordering against type, such as an hardboiled character ordering milk (as mentioned above) or something sweet and girly.
Compare [[Your Favorite]]. If the character ''always'' orders a particular drink no matter the circumstances, this becomes an [[Overwhelming Obsession]].
{{examples}}
== Strong Drinks ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In an episode of ''[[RahXephon]]'', Makoto Isshiki orders Bond's signature drink. Unlike Bond, he isn't a dashing spy, but (like Bond) he ''is'' a cold-hearted seducer.
** [[Intrepid Reporter|Futagami]] takes it upon himself to order hot rum during the [[Christmas Episode]], all the while while [[Guile Hero|subtly grilling]] the aforementioned [[Smug Snake|Isshiki]] for information.
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* The nameless [[Information Broker]] and her successors from ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' always introduce themselves by ordering a Grasshopper from the bar.
=== [[
* Captain Haddock, of ''[[Tintin]]'', will have a Loch Lomond whisky. In ''[[Tintin/Recap/Tintin and Alph Art|Tintin and Alph-Art]]'' (never completed due to [[Author Existence Failure]]), he was actually suffering from ill-effects as a result of ''not'' drinking. However, if whisky's not available, he's been known to favour rum.
** Tintin himself, meanwhile, invariably goes with something softer.
* The drink of choice for John Constantine of ''[[Hellblazer]]'' is a gin over ice.
* Marv from ''[[Sin City]]'' ordered "a shot and a brew" and told the waitress to keep it coming. He seems to like whiskey and beer. Due to his size, he doesn't seem to get drunk easily.
* In [[The Simpsons (Comic Book)| ''The Simpsons'' comic book]], one issue shows Chief Wiggum has a code at Moe's Tavern so he can drink while on duty. Asking for milk means he wants a white Russian, cherry soda means Sloe gin fizz, Buzz Cola means Harvey Wallbanger, coffee means a straight kaluha, and root beer means regular beer. Moe messes up once and gives him actual milk by mistake, almost making him sick.
=== [[Film]] ===
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* [[James Bond (novel)|James Bond]] drinks vodka
** Fleming explained this preference by noting that it really only mattered if the bartender were female. Shake it!
** In ''[[Casino Royale]]'' he's poisoned and almost dies, when ordering a stirred one. A shaken on the other hand will break up the poison and thus revealing if the drink is poisoned.
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* [[Mad Men|Don Draper]] will have an Old Fashioned made with rye, generally Canadian (and particularly Canadian Club, of which he keeps a bottle in his office). Before [[The Alcoholic|Season 4]], anyway.
** Betty seems to prefer white wine and/or gimlets. Roger Sterling seems to drink whatever's handy, although starting in Season 4 there always seems to be a bottle of Smirnoff in his office. [[Product Placement]], anyone?
* In a late episode of ''[[
{{quote|You put coffee in my coffee!}}
::The actor playing the MP [[You Look Familiar|played Ugly John]] in the first season.
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=== Politics ===
* Given the personal nature of tastes, what one drinks plays a very large part in identity politics. One extreme example is the "log cabin and hard cider campaign." The campaign started when an opposition newspaper mocked candidate Willian Henry Harrison's age by remarking "give him a barrel of hard cider, and ... a pension of two thousand [dollars] a year ... and ... he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin." Given that hard cider was the main beverage of the grain-poor thirteen colonies but had long past been replaced by beer and the only people who still lived in log cabins were crazy old coots out in the middle of nowhere, this was basically the period equivalent of everything that has ever been said about John McCain.{{who}} Harrison decided to turn this around, declaring himself "the log cabin and hard cider candidate" to promote an image of old-fashioned, working-class frontier values (i.e, "small town values"), which was actually very much against his background, as he had been born on his family's Virginia plantation.
=== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ===
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* In the world of ''[[Monkey Island]]'', grog is [[Gargle Blaster|a mixture of kerosene, propylene glycol, artificial sweeteners, sulphuric acid, rum, acetone, red dye no. 2, SCUMM, axle grease, battery acid, and/or pepperoni.]]
===
* In ''[[Ansem Retort]]'', Axel has a noted fondness for tequila. Another time, our... erm... "[[Villain Protagonist|heroes]]" use liquor for [[Time Travel]] and recruit Marluxia to "drink the gay drinks... because you're gay".
{{quote|'''Marluxia:''' So you're saying you want me to drink appletinis until we go back in time?}}
* Graham in ''[[Wizard School]]'' orders a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530011025/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1131 "Scotch. With extra scotch."]
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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** Three very specific, high class [http://www.bumwine.com/ fortified wines].
* In ''[[The Venture Bros]]'', Rusty is at a low-rent strip club where beer is the drink of choice - he orders a Rob Roy, and the burly bartender reaches down under the bar, looking like he's going after a baseball bat (but reaches for a drink recipe card.)
* Eddie [[Awesome McCoolname|Valiant]], [[Hardboiled Detective]] of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]],'' orders a Scotch on the rocks. ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|And he means ice.]]'' (Too late.)
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* [[Hunter S. Thompson]] was noted for his fondness for both rum and Wild Turkey 101, a fondness shared by his [[Author Avatar|alter ego]] Raoul Duke (as anyone who's read or seen ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' can attest).
* [[Frederick the Great]] was fond of [[Uncoffee|coffee boiled in champagne]], which combined perfectly two of his passions: modernity and French culture. Coffee was very modern in the early 18th century, and champagne is of course French. Note that this didn't keep him from [[Hypocrite|banning coffee to commoners]] to protect the brewing industry, despite [[Hypocritical Humor|his hatred of beer (he found it too German)]].
* [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pope_Clement_VIII Pope Clement VIII] was also known to be fond of coffee, his approval of the new (at the time) beverage one of the reasons it first became popular in Europe. According to the traditional (possibly apocryphal) story, many were suspicious of it, claiming it was "Satan's drink"; upon tasting it, Clement claimed, "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."
== Softer Drinks ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'': Judgment (essentially the police force in the setting) supervisor Konori drinks milk. [[Big Eater|Gallons of it in a sitting.]]
* In ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'', the "more British than the British" girls from St. Gloriana drink tea. [[Spot of Tea|From china cups.]] ''In the middle of tank battles.''
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[Batman]] orders black coffee ("and keep it coming") in the epilogue of ''Kingdom Come''. [[Superman]] has milk, and [[Wonder Woman]] just water.
* [[Asterix|Obelix]] favours goats' milk. If he orders several cups, he's in a bad mood.
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
* In ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', Alex prefers Diet Coke to almost every other beverage. Given the absolutely ''huge'' amount of food she has to eat to fuel her powers, almost everyone in the know about her finds this both amusing and ironic.
=== [[Film]] ===
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* In the classic Western ''Shane'', a line is quickly drawn between the titular character and the drunken members of the Ryker gang when he walks into their bar and orders a soda-pop.
* ''[[Rustlers' Rhapsody]]''. When Rex O'Herlihan walks into a Western bar he first orders a glass of warm milk. When everyone in the bar in the bar stares at him he changes his order to a sarsaparilla. See the entry under "Strong Drinks" above for what happens next.
* Xander Cage in ''[[XXX (2002 film)|xXx]]'' orders club soda and cranberry juice. This could just be to contrast him against the James Bond-types who he's intended to be an inversion of, or because he's an extreme-sports fanatic and doesn't want his reflexes dulled while he's undercover, or (considering he has a "XXX" tattoo) he might be [[Straight Edge]].
* In ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'', Fozzie is messing with what appears to be a martini, or possibly champagne served in the wrong glass. He takes a sip, then turns around and informs the people behind him, "Hey, if you add enough sugar to this stuff it tastes just like ginger ale!" He gives the distinct impression that he finds this to be an improvement (possibly the fact that he was adding sugar to it was a pretty solid hint).
=== [[Literature]] ===
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* In ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'' (Book two of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] series), Arthur Dent tries very patiently to get a simple cup of tea from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer which, while it claims to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cares to use it, invariably produces a liquid which is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea" (possibly a [[Take That]] at coffee). Arthur's determination leads him to explain the process of making tea, from geography to the social aspects to preparation. In the end, it almost gets him and everyone else on the ''Heart of Gold'' killed by Vogons, but he does indeed get a cup of good tea out of it.
** The radio Series had a sentient-machine that dispensed drinks apparently tailored to every customer's exact tastes and nutritional needs, provoking Arthur to exclaim "Wonderful, apparently I'm a masochist on a diet" before beginning another rant about tea, and the fall of [[It Makes Sense in Context|a civilisation and the creation of a race of bird-men]].
* [[Dragaera|Vlad Taltos]] is a wine connosseur and also favors "klava," a coffee derivative probably based on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130603000436/http://homepage.interaccess.com/~june4/eggcoffee.html Hungarian egg coffee].
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* From ''[[Star Trek
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': Janeway loves her coffee black.
{{quote|"Coffee. The finest organic suspension ever devised. It's gotten me through the past three years. I beat the Borg with it."}}
{{quote|'''Data's Housekeeper:''' How'dja want yer tea?
'''Picard:''' Tea? Earl Grey. Hot.
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'''Picard:''' Nothing!...(later) Are you sure this is Earl Grey? I could swear it's Darjeeling.
''-- scene from "old" future Picard in final episode of ST:TNG (he's going senile)'' }}
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
** Radar O'Reilly: Grape Nehi.
** In a couple early episodes, we learn [[Recurring Character|General Clayton's]] "usual" is sherry and ginger ale.
* Ryuu Tendou from ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]'', being straight-laced, super serious [[The Hero|hero]], usually orders milk in bars. Hot or cold.
* In Season 5 of ''[[Mad Men]]'' there's a scene where Sally is at lunch in a restaurant with Megan and one of Megan's friends. Sally orders coffee and puts lots of sugar in it (the scene cuts to an overhead shot of the sugar landing into the coffee and fades out before she stops), illustrating how Sally's growing up but is still somewhat of a kid.
=== Politics ===
* [[Played With]] in the coffee choices of [[Canadian Politics|Canadians]]. The Conservative Party (on the right) likes to think that "[http://www.parli.ca/tim-hortons-voters/ Tim Hortons Voters]" support conservative values and drink Tim Hortons coffee while "Starbucks Voters" support liberal values and drink Starbucks coffee; thus, you see a lot of Conservatives campaigning at the local "Timmies" during election time. Actual research shows that people drink the coffee they like, with no relation to their politics.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
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* Coffee of Doom in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' ''does'' do the fancy-schmancy drinks, but in "small", "medium", "large", "WTF" [[Couch Gag|and occasionally "Fuck You, Bladder"]] sizes. When someone uses a certain chain's faux-Italian size names, the offender is told "No habla Starbucks".
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2y_GwKzxck Is it French or is it Italian?] Perhaps [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Fretalian]]....
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* [[The Spiffing Brit]] drinks Yorkshire Tea. And ''only'' Yorkshire Tea.
* An important part of early character design for ''[[RWBY]]'' according to [[Word of God]]. When they figured out that Blake drank tea and Weiss drank coffee, [[Monty Oum]] and company felt they were starting to get somewhere.
** [[Genki Girl|Ruby]], by the way, drinks coffee, black, with five sugars. Of course.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The Australians' affinity for beer is parodied on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' when Marge fruitlessly tries to order coffee.
{{quote|Marge: I'll just have a coffee.
Australian Bartender: Beer it is.
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Marge: Coffee. C-O-
Bartender: B...E... }}
* [[Kim Possible
** "Cocoa Moo" was mentioned in a couple of other episode. Maybe it's a brand name in the KP-verse.
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Uncle Iroh]] has a passion for tea.
* The "ginger ale... in a dirty glass" bit was also used in the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Don Quixote Cody." We are talking about a cartoon from the middle eighties...and the two Rangers were on duty, after all. [[Fanon]] will usually depict Niko as a tea-drinker, and Goose taking his coffee strong enough to melt the spoon.
* ''Every'' member of the cast of ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' likes Pitt Cola, a peach-flavored soft drink. This is a reference to director Joe Pitt.
* On ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'', Adrian seems to prefer simple milk while in his Cat-Noir identity, likely as because the cat-man identity is more than simply a costume.
* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer's favorite non-alcohol beverage is eggnog. He stocks up and hoards it during the holidays, wondering why it is only sold then.<ref>For those wondering the same thing, the reason is, the cream used to make it is the same as the type used to make ice cream, which is far more profitable to sell year-round than eggnog.</ref>
* [[Cat Girl|Dr. T'Ana]] on ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' has often said she needs a bowl of cream when she's stressed or agitated [[Dr. Jerk|(which is most of the time)]], a [[Furry Reminder]] gag.
== Against Stereotype ==
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* Roberta from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' orders milk, and she's a human Terminator! It's a good way to provoke a fight. Also drinking milk in the series were Torch, a psychopathic Mormon [[Pyromaniac]] and Rotton the Wizard a (not so) [[Badass Longcoat]] who can't hold his liquor. However, in a later appearance of Roberta, she orders tequila, signaling a return to her bloodthirsty past personality.
* [[Badass]] giant robot pilot Van of ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' has as his drink of choice... ''milk.'' He does have an excuse, however - he [[Can't Hold His Liquor]] worth a damn.
* Same with above example, although the guy in question is Yusei Fudo of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] 5Ds''. Has a yellow shape on his face? Criminal. Wears leather or denim with shoulder, elbow and knee pads? Biker. Bar near a prison? This guy came
** Of course, he expects to ride in a high-speed motorcycle race at any time, so staying sober is probably a good idea.
** Also Justified, as ordering milk at that bar while giving the bartender a specific card was a code for, "I'm here to see [[Knowledge Broker| Saiga.]]"
* The favorite drink of [[Afro Samurai]]: "Lemonade. Ice cold." (Lemonade is a major part of one of his few good childhood memories.) Do ''not'' interrupt the man while he's drinking, either.
* Colonel {{spoiler|Paya}} Livingston from ''[[Dai Mahou Touge]]'' orders "the usual" at the bar and gives the barkeep a jar with "sake" written on it. However, "the usual" turns out to be chocolate milk, which the barkeep pulls from under the counter.
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=== [[Film]] ===
* A John Wayne quote ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|that he never said]]): "Get off your horse and drink your milk."
* Forgot the exact source, but a bartender in some western once explained he keeps milk around because people tough enough to dare order milk at his bar really aren't the kind of people he'd want to offend by not offering them any.{{verify}}
* Jean Girard from ''[[Talladega Nights]]: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' daintily sips an espresso from a real china cup and saucer as he drives his stock car. It's against stereotype for NASCAR, but totally in-stereotype for a gay Frenchman. At least he's not downing Bordeaux during a race.
* The Mariachi from ''[[El Mariachi]]'' and ''[[Desperado]]'', despite his [[Badass]] [[The Gunslinger|gunslinger]] persona, orders soda when visiting a bar. He explains that he doesn't drink because he's a musician and afraif that it would ruin his voice.
* When Bond loses it all in ''[[Casino Royale]]'', he evidently does not give a damn about whether his martini is shaken or stirred.
* Billy Costigan in ''[[The Departed]]'' orders a cranberry juice. A mob flunkie who cracks a joke about it gets the glass in his face.
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* In "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", the Western episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'':
{{quote|'''Rimmer:''' Leave this to me. I've seen Westerns. I know how to speak cowboy. [''turns to the bar woman''] A dry white wine and Perrier, please.}}
*
{{quote|'''Worf:''' This is a ''warrior's'' drink!}}
** Klingons consider water to be an entirely unworthy drink option. To Klingons, blood symbolizes power and control - water is about as far from blood as you can get while still being a liquid, and so symbolizes weakness. Prune juice, in turn, is entirely unlike water, and therefore a great choice.
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=== [[Film]] ===
* A successful filmmaker in ''[[Four Rooms]]'' (played by Quentin Tarrantino) raves about his Cristal for almost 10 minutes of screentime. He shares it generously, but one of his buddies (played by Bruce Willis) drinks something brown in a chaser.
* ''[[Mystery Team
=== [[Literature]] ===
* [[Dracula]] [[I Do Not Drink... Wine|does not drink...
** Neither do the Igors of Pratchett's [[Discworld]]... which is the cue to extract the ubiquitous canteen from its hiding place on your person and offer them a slug.
* [[X Wing Series|Rogue Squadron pilots]] in the comics have lum as their general drink of choice during off hours; the squadron during the books prefers lomiin-ale. In ''Isard's Revenge'' a pilot from the comics lineup temporarily returned to the squadron and was a little shocked when he was told that they'd never drink lum. Whether these are alcoholic or not depends on who you ask.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' students will drink butterbeer, while their professors enjoy Firewhiskey or a Gilly water.
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** Exactly what this is supposed to demonstrate about the red guy (other than that he likes frappes) is a mystery for the ages, though.
*** Frappe is, like many unfathomable terms, a regional term for what would otherwise be called a milkshake. Presumably it means he's considerably less of a threat than you might think.
* [[P. G.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Fawlty Towers
* ''[[Kenan and Kel
* One episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' had Penny practicing making alcoholic drinks, and got frustrated when Sheldon wouldn't order. When he does...
{{quote|'''Sheldon''': I'll have a virgin Cuba Libre.
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'''Sheldon''': Could you make it diet?
'''Penny''': (Growls) There's a can in the fridge. }}
** Somebody [[Did Not Do the Research]] there; a Cuba Libre is not just rum and coke.
* In ''[[Kung Fu]]'', Caine, being a Shaolin monk with appropriately simple tastes, usually just asks for plain water when at a bar.
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=== [[New Media]] ===
* "What your drink says about you" lists are practically their own genre of Internet humor. Examples at [http://drunkard.com/issues/54/54_secret_language.html
=== [[Video Games]] ===
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* Barney's girlfriend (a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Yoko Ono pastiche]]) in the "Be Sharps" episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' orders "A single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat." Moe conveniently has exactly that behind the bar.
* An amusing scene in one episode of Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' series had Mechanicles enter the [[Bad Guy Bar]] and order mint tea. Abis Mal mocks him for it.
* Poison Ivy in ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'': Long Island Ice Tea, no ice.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
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