Food/Drink that reminds you of your Fraternity/Sorority?
 

What food or drink reminds you personally of your Fraternity or Sorority?

This could be anything from the main dish at the theme party your fraternity threw every year to a drink that the only person who you've ever met who drank it was a sorority sister or anything else...

Wine and cheese.

We had a wine and cheese mixer with a local sorority my Freshman year, so I always associate wine and cheese with that disaster, I mean mixer.

This is an interesting thread to start, though!

ETA: Also, mostaccoli. Every. Single. Event.

Parent dinner? Let's make mostaccoli.
Mixer? Mostaccoli?
Retreat? Definitely mostaccoli!
Event after retreat? Leftover mostaccoli!!!

I can't look at falafel without thinking about the house cook we had when I was a junior. He was "earthy", and if you remember the Scooby Doo cartoons, he looked exactly like Shaggy. Let's just say that his idea of good food vs. what our housemother thought was good food were not the same and he did not work for us very long.

Frosted animal crackers. We served them at rush because they are pink and white.

Anthill Pie-crushed Oreo crust with Peppermint ice cream and Oreo crumbs on top. We served it at prefs.(all 4 years I was in college) and had it occasionally as dessert on Thursday nights-guest night. I make it every Christmas season.

Eggs and onions...Yep...one of my sisters made them one Sunday for brunch. OMG, nirvana........

Spaghetti. We had a pasta feed for half our philanthropy and ate a form of pasta almost every Monday before chapter.

Friday Fish Fry. Every Friday. My job was to come home from Happy Hour half-buzzed and make the tartar sauce for our cook, Anna. I had to mix mayo from an industrial-sized plastic jar with pickle relish. I don't remember how this became my regular job, but she counted on me every Friday, so I was always careful not to drink too much before I went back to the house. She was a nice lady.

Glass bottled Coca Cola. We've served them during formal recruitment for at least the past two years. The party theme is "Always Classic. Always AOII."

Chocolate dipped strawberries - we made the for prefs. One year half the pref committee was too sick to set up, thus - I made ALL of the chocolate dipped strawberries (we're talking hundreds.)
Girls from small chapters have to know how to do everything....:cool:

Grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup and hot chocolate!! We did not have many REALLY cold days but on those rare raw days it was great to be warmed up with Marie's cold weather fare!! I am sure there are some cringing with the calorie and carb counts but it was wonderful!

Frozen fruit salad. The year I was a rush counselor, my group & I were discussing the food served at the open house round. I'll always remember that conversation, because they were talking about how bad the food was - at my house. I sat there with my heart in my chest while I tried not to act too interested in what they were saying.

It seems that the fruit salad had not thawed out and was frozen, so it was hard to eat. I remember thinking, "I wonder just what happened?" I also felt really sad that I was not with my chapter. :)

It was one of our chapter's favorite desserts...and mine! Our house Mom always made sure it was on the menu at least twice a month! Another chapter favorite were the rice krispy treats. Our cooks made them two ways: plain and peanut butter with melted chocolate chips on the top. We had them every Friday night at walk through dinner. And my all time favorite lunches grilled cheese and tomato soup, we had it once a week. :D

I think those bags of frozen fruit are tricky; the fruit never seems to have thawed out entirely when it's served. The half-frozen watermelon balls are the worst.

We had this too only we called it grasshopper pie. I was never partial to it, but we served it at our pref parties and it was special to most of my sisters. I believe the Pi Phis on my campus had it as well...

I don't associate a specific food to Alpha Gam but at Convention, all the meals have a red food item, yellow food item and green food item.

Yea, it can get imaginative, lol.;)

Cherries Jubilee, served at Preference.

Yes, we used brandy. Seriously. It was a Long Time Ago. No way that would happen today.

I will never forget the time that the brandy went POOF! in a huge explosion when lit and the Rush Chair dropped the entire preparation on the floor as she leapt backwards. So much for elegance and impressive style. I don't think we ever made it again after that.

Quaker Oats Rice Cakes, Little Debbie Raisin Cakes, and Amaretto Di Saronno.

For the dieters, the sweet tooth, and the cold evenings.

Cheese balls. As in, spherical cheesy poofs, NOT the appetizer served with crackers. I think we snacked from the same industrial-sized tub of them for my entire pledge semester. As time went on and I eventually held positions of authority, I could ensure that every party had cheese balls.

Peanuts and olives - sorority tradition says that when our first initiate, Clara Warden, was being initiated, someone (Alpha Phi or fraternity men, depending on who tells the story) stole the elaborately prepared banquet laid out in the dining room - everything except the peanuts and olives. We even have a song in our official songbook - "The Peanuts and Olive Song". (!) " In Gamma Phi Beta from Alpha to Eta we eat peanuts and olives too." I really wish those miscreants had left, oh, chocolate or cake - but no. Peanuts and olives.

Gamma Phi dip - SO GOOD and served at all kinds of alumnae events. Equal parts artichoke hearts, mayonnaise and Parmesan cheese. Whirl it around in the blender or food processor - put in a dish and broil until hot, bubbly, and slightly brown on top. Serve with Townhouse or Ritz crackers.

I probably should include mine...
 

Given that I started the thread. Two things.

1) Baked Ziti, at a conference for the DC & MD chapters at Catholic University of America, the host chapter decided to go really cheap and ordered lots of Baked Ziti from University catering. I think they ordered about twice what they actually needed for the people who showed up, to the point that the representative from the host chapter was *begging* people to eat more...

2) Raspberry Lemonade. Heard the comparison many years ago that ever Alpha Phi Omega chapter had a different balance of Leadership, Friendship and Service like every lemonade is a different balance of Lemon, Sugar and Water. But the chapters at the Historically Black Universities were like Raspberry Lemonade, that is Lemonade, but with something extra! Now I can't look at Raspberry Lemonade without thinking of that comparison...

I totally forgot about that!!! Thanks for reminding me! :)

I love this thread.

Remember the strawberry soup at the Centennial convention? Most foods are either red, buff or green, if you think about it. It would be much worse for some other GLOs, like Tri Sigmas or Alpha Xi Deltas if they only ate food that fit their sorority colors at their Conventions!

White Castle. Every semester we had an invite only formal dinner, which was potluck for the brothers and every semester somebody would bring a crave case.

^^On that same tip, not a food item specifically, but...

PERKINS!!!!

THE go-to place for post big-little night or initiation dinners, hangover breakfasts, late night meals and more.

Melon Ball Shooters!

Mmm.. potato pancakes...

I preffed at Alpha Gamma Delta and they served strawberries, cheesecake and green grapes. Observant suck-up as I am, I made note of it to my hostess. She was most pleased.

Now, as for my stroll down memory lane, a lot of them have been mentioned here, but...

Clearly Canadian - because the year I rushed, that's what our house served at the ice water round, and they got dinged for it. Hahaha!

Cokes in the little glass bottles, which were a staple of the second round parties not only at our house...

Froot Loops. Because I ate them every day for breakfast...

Gumby's Pizza, with Pokey Stix. Garbage pizza, but I loved it.

Cheese straws, which along with petit fours (decorated with icing violets) and strawberries were our pref party refreshment.

Oh I remember that Strawberry Soup. I wasn't a fan. :(

My chapter events always included SEVEN LAYER DIP. The Sarahs always seemed to make enough Seven Layer Dip to feed the Duggars 3 times. It's because of this that I haven't eaten Seven Layer Dip in YEARS!

I remember gumby's pizza and pokey stix! That was standard Sunday night dinner fare when I was a freshman at brumby and the cafeteria was closed on sunday nights. I was so sad when they closed a few years ago..

Cheesecake and punch with sherbet always remind me of my days in the sorority. That was what we always served for prefs.

Strawberry smoothies.

When I was a freshman, there were 4 NPC sororities and a brand-new local on campus. The local held their rush after NPC FR ended. I went through FR, and none of the NPCs felt "right" for me ... so I checked out the local. Their first rush event was a mocktail hour, where they offered 4 or 5 different mocktails, including strawberry smoothies (I think I had 3 over the 2-hour period).

Diet Coke also holds a slight connection to my sorority for me. During my junior year, I was in charge of bid day. During an early round, I spoke with a PNM who mentioned to me that she was diabetic - the only thing she could drink at parties was water, and she couldn't eat most of the hors d'oeuvres offered to PNMs. When I saw her name on our pref invite list, I alerted the day chair for pref to ensure she would have something besides water to drink (we usually do sparkling cider but I think she got Perrier) and I made damn sure there was a Diet Coke for her on bid day. She became my little. :)

French Toast.

On all weekend/week long trips we always had French Toast for breakfast on the last day. The smell was amazing.

aephi alum talking about diet coke reminded me of Tab-it was the go to diet drink in the coke machine in our study.

Oh, that triggers memories of Your House, a 24-hour diner. We always started initiation around midnight and afterwards the chapter would head to Your House for a celebratory wee-hours breakfast. It closed a while back.

And it's probably trite, but to be honest, kegs never fail to bring back memories of chapter parties (especially since I was often the one responsible for getting the kegs). And we always had an affinity for Bass ale, purely because of the logo:

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(Well, not purely I guess -- the logo and the goodness.)

Hy-vee Catering's Sesame Chicken - I've never had another even come close. When it was my turn to pick house dinner, you could be sure that's what we were having.

Our old housemom was also our cook, and she made the best chili. I wish I had the recipe for it...

and I also remember that fruit pizza always made an appearance at Moms & Dads weekends

Packaged chocolate chip cookie dough.

It reminds me of my favorite sister. We ate it out of the package with a spoon, in the middle of the night. It was especially good when there was boy trouble.

Thank you for the laugh! I can see that happening.

One year, my Big remembered between the first and second parties on Saturday that she hadn't picked up the petit fours for Pref (the next day!) from the bakery and they were going to be closed on Sunday. We made a mad dash out of there between parties to pick up the food before the bakery closed. We made it back for the third party. Then we stayed up way too late to pipe the names of the women preffing on the petit fours. If I never see another petit four again, it will be too soon.

vegetable lasagna. I had never had it before having it in the sorority house, and everytime I have it now I think back to that.

Cheesecake squares. They're a pref round staple at my chapter...everybody loves them!