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** Don't order a cocktail or liqueurcertain liquours unless you want to be seen as pretentious or effeminate, at least prior to the 1990s. Simple mixers like a "poof"whiskey and soda were acceptably macho but something like Bucks Fizz (similar to a mimosa) or anything with more than three ingredients would definitely get you the side-eye in a lot of places.

* 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 [[Discworld/The Last Continent|"lost continent"]] comes from), Victoria- VB (officially Victoria Bitters, but nobody calls it that), WA- Swan Draught, Tasmania- Boags or Cascade, SA- West End. Inevitably, the beer is drunk either straight from the can or from a "stubby" (a short, squat glass bottle, in contrast to the "longneck").

** 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:

** [[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 alchoholicalcoholic punch drinks.

** Similarly, the [[Determined Homesteader|American frontiersman]] will take a hard cider, or perhaps applejack (distilled or freeze-distilled cider, i.e. American apple brandy-- — [[George Washington]] had a prosperous distillery for it, and [[Good Eats|Alton Brown]] recommends that you use it instead of water for making apple pie crust).

*** 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]] ''[[Overly Long Gag|Turkish]]'' [[Overly Long Gag|Cypriots and the Turks, and the]] ''[[Serial Escalation|Australians]]'' [[Overly Long Gag|and the Turks, and the Turks and the Turks...]] ([[The Simpsons (animation)|Damned Turks. They ruined Turkey]]!) And it's not limited to coffee; pretty much any Eastern Mediterranean food item is subject to [[Misplaced Nationalism]]. Just try ordering ouzo in the parts of Greece where they drink rakki, or if you’re truly suicidal, try asking who invented said coffee variety, or who invented that sweet mint tea, or who invented hummus or any other food or drink anywhere in the eastern Mediterranean or the Levant and watch war be declared as everyone clamours to stake their claim to having invented it (baklava is particularly notorious for starting this sort of nastiness). The only place you can go without raising this kind of ruckus is Israel, whose inhabitants are so new to the region that they freely admit to having stolen half their cuisine from their neighbors and who have invented their own coffee variant that nobody else will admit ever drinking (called "mud coffee," it's made by pouring the grounds and hot water in your mug and drinking the whole thing).

=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===

* 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.

* Graham in ''[[Wizard School]]'' orders a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530011025/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1131 "Scotch. With extra scotch."]

* 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.)

* From ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': Janeway loves her coffee black.

*:* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': Picard, on the other hand, prefers "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." Amusingly enough, this is not supposed to be a character definition, but a requirement of the replicator. In one of the early episode, Picard orders tea. The replicator makes him tea, and it's horrible. So he goes back and orders Earl Grey tea, only to find that it is ''cold''. Hence the line. Probably not an exact version of the scene, but close enough.

**:* Of course, you would think that the replicator could just be programmed to give him the exact tea he wants whenever he just says "tea", but then it wouldn't be [[Rule of Drama]], would it?

**:* Geordi once asked for some water, and it ''still'' wanted to know the exact temperature. When the ''Chief Engineer'' has to do stuff like that, the problem's on the replicator's end.

**:* Klingons as a whole stick to the harder bloodwines, Worf prefers "a warrior's drink": prune juice.

*:* Miles O'Brien of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' drinks "Coffee, Jamaican blend, double-strong, double sweet."

**:* While Captain Sisko typically drinks Raktajino, a Klingon coffee.

*:* Throughout the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise, Romulan Ale (a blue alcoholic beverage) pops up from time to time as a somewhat popular ([[Forbidden Fruit|If outlawed in the Federation]]) alcoholic drink amongst Starfleet officers, its popularity and contraband status evidently being on par with Cuban Cigars. Interestingly enough, in ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'', when Kirk and McCoy are on trial for assassinating Chancelor Gorkon, their previous consumption of Romulan Ale is not brought up to merely suggest intoxication, rather than impact their overall credibility (showing that nobody, even people plotting against the Starfleet officers, takes the ban seriously enough to use their violating it against them).

* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Radar O'ReillyM*A*S*H]]: Grape Nehi.''

** In a couple early episodes, we learn [[Recurring Character|General Clayton's]] "usual" is sherry and ginger ale.

* "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 heredrunkard.com] and [http://www.cracked.com/article_15170_what-your-favorite-drink-says-about-you.html herecracked.com].