Lyrelyre,

The DZ chapter that I assist also writes girls' names on cakes for pref parties. We usually have a kitchen crew whose only job during pref is to make sure that the food and drinks go out on time, and a couple of those girls are the ones who are in charge of writing names on the cakes. They take the pref list that we receive a little before the parties start and use it to write the girls' names who will be attending the first party. Then, while that party is going on, they do the names for the 2nd party, and so on... It's a tight squeeze time-wise, but they've been doing it for years and practically have it down to an art form! :)

When I am in a rush, I prefer Taco Bell.

Oh, you mean food for rush. My bad.

The food that has been mentioned is pretty much the same as what I've seen. Another way to personalize things without dealing with frosting is to use metalic pens and write the girls' names on napkins. This doesn't take much time and looks nice.

The Panhellenic at FSU is very strict and I don't believe that chapters are allowed to serve any type of food. In fact, the only day that you can serve something besides water to drink is on Pref day. This has changed over the past few years to try to make rushees focus more on the girls than on the "frills" of a house.

Someone started this thread to make me feel bad. My favorite rush "food" would have to be....drum roll please...ICE WATER.

It 's so bad, that there was a vote a few years ago to determine whether or not houses could use lemons in the water.

That really stinks that the food of choice had to be ice water. Anyone know why some universities won't let you serve real food?

I'd take a guess that probably because they don't want rush budgets to go out of control?

we go no frills here @ my chapter and school, but all your foods sound AMAZING!
One thing we never ever forget is the candy dishes. infact we have to swat sister's hands OUT of the dish before the parties start otherwise sometimes there would never be any M&M's etc left. It's bound to happen tho...with 40some girls someone HAS to be in the mood for chocolate
Our advisor/alumn always gets the new girls a cake for after initiation in blue and white frosting, yum yum.

The silly answer we are given is that they don't want girls joining a house based on the food.

Hmm...
"the girls at XYZ were super sweet and I could really see myself there, but ABC had better cake so I'll join ABC" !!!????

Im not sure where the cheesecakes someone else was mentioning, but they have mini cheesecakes at Sams Club....someone brought them to a birthday party and they were absolutely delicious! They look like reeses cups...that shape, but like 4 flavors of rasberry, white chocolate with almonds, chocolate chip, and something else...but they were very good.

My favorite foods that we do are on our third night, which is our philanthropy party. The theme is "Bee Your Best" so we have garden decorations and stuff. We serve veggie pizza, which is a pizza crush smothered with ranch dip, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower. I'm not a big vegatable person, but I love it! Also, we serve dirt cups with the little gummi worms in it. Yum.....*eyeing up Christmas dinner left-overs*

Zeta's on our campus always have this fantastic cheese ball that the rushees rave about. We had a joint open recruitment party with them this past year, and I had a hard time tearing myself away! LOL

At Cornell for preference the Panhel orders and delivers the food, so every house is serving the same food for each of the three pref rounds.

Example:
RD1 - all houses get veggie and cheese trays
RD2- all houses get mini sandwiches and stuff
RD3 - all houses have cookies and small desserts

So the pnm's never get the same food twice but it is still equal to all the houses.

Although I like being able to serve your own choice of food better, the above is an idea for campuses looking to do away with food altogether.

We have really strict no frills rush, but we are allowed to serve food on pref night. This may sound silly, but everyone ALWAYS remembers us for our cheesecake. Every girl gets a regular sized piece of this fantastic cheesecake garnished w fudge and strawberries. A lot of times girls won't eat it because they're nervous, but you better be sure not a piece makes it to midnight because if they pnms don't eat it, the sisters do aferwards! We also have the regular fuirt and veggie trays annd a bread bowl w spinich dip...great stuff...not to mention the table is set up right outside me room :D

Thank God for those Pi Phi alums! They take care of all the food for our rush. They circulate the party the first night with flutes of shirley temples. The second night they provide rushees with white chocolate angels and apple cider. Kappa has "Kappa Kappacino" which is just a splendid idea. The third night ties into our philanthropy and I will refrain from posting on that since it is special to us. Pi Phi's PM if ya need a spirit or philanthropy night idea! ;)On pref night most all chapters provide a very formal dessert. We go all out with hours of decorating our formal room. We sit down at the dinner tables with rushees and share cheesecake and cider. Usually everyone is so busy crying and talking that rushees rarely eat. Especially since rushees are so nervous. In between parties we would shove down the left over food. We do personalize the arrow cookies at the top of the girls place setting. We get our pref list an hour before so while we are being assigned pref rushees, the alums are personalizing cookies!

Eating schedules are so off during rush for actives. We don't eat all day. Voting goes on until 4 AM and set up starts again at 9 AM. Luckily those blessed alums provide salads and veggie sandwiches and fondue for after the parties for all the actives.

This is just amazing to me, yall have spectacular foods and desserts for rush. We don't even serve water! I don't know why.

There is an NPC rule that says we could get a rush infraction if a rushee takes anything out of the room after a party. For this reason we don't even have tissues! Isn't that crazy? Maybe it goes back to that rule. I haven't ever thought about it before...

I believe everyone has this rush rule. For this reason we are mad dog about the flutes and napkins. We simply take whatever the rushee has in her hands into ours with a simple "Oh, let me take that for you." We can't have any loose confetti or feathers or anything because if a rushee has so much as a wine or blue ribbon stuck to the bottom of her shoe, we get slapped with a huge fine. Rush infractions are getting ridiculous.