Pref Night Food & Special Stuff
 

What has been some of the more memorable Pref night foods or things served for you all? Do you all "personalize" some food item, cakes, chocolate cover strawberries in tuxedo's to impress your potential new sisters? Were there any "turnoffs" with regard to food or drink on Pref Night?

Can you tell it is lunchtime and I'm pregnant? All I think about is food!!!

Denise_DPhiE

I think the least special thing is cheesecake, because so many houses seve it! Also, it is SO heavy and rich and you are eating two or three desserts that night, so they should be lighter!

I know my chapter does petifores (ok I cant spell) but we make it special by writing their names onto their plates. It looks really nice and is eatable...

we actually were encouraged not to have food at preference bc it was getting out of hand with expense. (a way of cutting back on the frills i guess.) but we did have sparkeling cider and sparkling grape juice in plastic wine glasses that we decorated their names in double blue and gold.
As for other rounds, we've had chocolate covered pretzels...bad idea! gets all over your fingers and on your clothes, brownies with their names in diff. shades of blue and yellow icing, Alpha Xi Punch blue coolaid with lemons floating in it...as good as it is, it turns your mouth blue...
when i went through other sororities did pink lemonade for phi mu (the girl taking me around ended up knocking it all over me--yeah i wasn't happy! esp. bc i was wearing a nice white shirt), zta always had strawberries, aott had cupcakes with red roses made out of icing on top, tri-sigma had diff. kinds of cookies in the shape sailboats with some kind of purple drink that also stained your mouth purpule, and ASA had cookies with raggedy ann dols and lady bugs painted on them with icing---totally freaked me out!

I'm curious, because I never went through a Formal Rush...

what does a rushee (sorry, PNM) do if they don't like the foods being served? For example, I don't like sweets and absolutely HATE chocolate....but I wouldn't want to look bad by not eating it, you know? Just curious

no, we had a girl that was allergic to chocolate when we gave her the brownie, she was just like "no thank you." and was very plesant about it. no big deal, more for the sisters to eat later!

That's "petit fours"! :D

Chocolate covered strawberries are messy, but unfortunately I have no good alternative suggestions to make! :)

One thing I know is that Pi Phi usually does angel food cake. It's a cute idea. We usually did punch of some kind, and when I was Pres we did a fruit pie. It was a tiny pie shell with a whipped cream mix and fruit on top. They were good but oh so hard to eat like a lady! :rolleyes:

For our "movie night" party we had popcorn and cokes----was nice to eat something other than sweets.

At one house I preffed there was this HUGE piece of cheesecake with fondue toppings or something. Very rich, I could barely eat half of it. At another there was yummy chocolate mousse with some champagniny stuff that was tasty!

I loved pref!

We've found that a good alternative to chocolate-dipped strawberries is a fruit tray with various types of dip available. We usually offer chocolate, caramel, and plain (cream cheese & sugar). It's a much lighter fare compared to what the other chapters offer, so women attending all three Prefs aren't bogged down by triple cheesecake.

We also offer hot tea & cider, which the women like 'cuz January in Wisconsin is COLD!

We did large cookies personalized with each PNM's name... then we had some little things like petits fours, chocolate-dipped strawberries, etc. We were restricted to snack/finger-food type food.

We did have a PNM come through one year who refused her cookie during pref - but she told us that she was diabetic, so that we wouldn't think she was being rude. Good thing she did, too; when she came to our bid day party, we had a Diet Coke and some sugar-free candy waiting for her :)

That is awesome and so thoughtful of your chapter! :D

honestly i don't know what my chapter serves because when I preffed i was too nervous to eat and i must have turned down the food 5 times!

The chapter that I advised steered clear of sweets and instead did plates of three different cheeses with grapes and some crackers. The pnms loved it and would ask for seconds (that's what I like to see)!

one chapter had cheese and crackers at an open house and i guess the cheese was bad or something bc all these girls ended up getting really sick. after that panhell decided that no food, just drinks for the open house which is outside, in the hot northcarolina septermber sun.

What a nightmare! Those poor girls! And talk about making a bad impression.

yeah, the glo was then named something really awful by the PNM's after that. I think eventually they got over it though.
Moral of the story: if its hot out, do not use DAIRY!

maggieaxid....where did you go to school at in NC?

Elon College, now university...yes, we have SigmaK, some of my good friends are SK's.

I find all your responses fascinating as our campus does not allow food or drinks served at any Recruitment party! In addition, we are also not allowed to write the recruits names on anything – notes, letters, food, etc. I do think there are benefits to the absence of any food/beverage items. I cannot imagine the dilemmas and “cook offs" that must occur.

Dorky Advisors contribution to preference food
 

Last year I found this great cookie cutter in the shape of a house, and I thought it would be a great idea to make sugar cookies in the shape of these darling houses and arrows (of course!) for preference.
So I started baking like a week and a half in advance, and after something like fourteen DOZEN cookies later I decided that I now HATED sugar cookies and if I never see pink icing again in my entire life it will be too soon.
They were awfully cute though...anything for my Pi Phi girls!;)

I don't remember having food as fancy as many of you have described. One party I went to had a Candyland theme. My roommate and I didn't really talk to many sisters. We just stood at the table and ate candy all night. :p

Bumping b/c hey, everyone else is bumping today due to the vandals last night on GC....

And no, I'm not pregnant!

This was MY first thread on greekchat. And my child just turned 3!

Denise

At my campus, we were not allowed to have food. We did water, sodas and non-alcoholic punch.

Other chapters I have worked with do custom petit fours at prefs, etc.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries and cream puffs.

We've had: chocolate coins with anchors on them (made them from a mold), chocolate covered strawberries, petite fours, nuts (I think) and various fruits.

My chapter is the only NPC on campus so we do not have to follow no-frills guidelines, before I get reamed YET AGAIN for this...

For pref, we have it catered by the University, and generally have fruit and veggie trays, cheese and crackers, and cheesecake or some sort.

When I rushed, one of the houses had a HUGE buffet for Pref: Swedish meatballs, fruit-kabobs, meatball-kabobs, cheese, crackers, assorted canapes - it was amazing!! We served larger petit fours, tea sandwiches, nuts, fruit kabobs, mints, coffee, tea, and punch.

For the round prior to Pref, we were allowed to serve food, and knowing that the other sororities all served desserts, we served a selection of salads. It went over VERY well!

Now, I think every sorority on campus serves cheesecake for Pref - the only difference is how it's presented. I'd like to see cheesecake banned, even for one year!

It's almost a test to see if the PNMs can eat properly in a social setting while carrying on a conversation. Drippy meatballs, spinachy things, poppy seeds....

A test of what? Are you for real?

Must be what they did at "top tier" houses back in ancient times. My original post was to see if there were special things like a DG posted about lovely chocoloate anchors not "test" food. Yeesh.

Denise: rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

george - see that post by alum? If she's for real (which we're not sure of) she's not joking...and all the posts after are making fun of her. Search for some of her other posts and you'll get it.

We always do chinese food/oriental theme (based on some of the history of my sorority) and everyone makes a special little candle holder for the event. Everyone gets a white rose and a wee bracelet in our colours too. It's good craic and great food.

Actually, it still goes on and not just "top tier."

Back during "full frills" rush, we always served chocolate fondue with strawberries, cake, etc. for the round before prefs. We would always serve something different for prefs, but I remember another house serving their "own" dessert - sort of a layered thing with chocolate mousse, crust, whipped cream - and they told us that sisters received the recipe only when they got married. That dessert was pretty yummy - I almost pledged there so I could have a shot at getting the recipe!

I love Preference and the beauty of the ceremony.

But I too support a cheesecake ban...I think I'm scarred for life because of it!

Ditto. Honeychile isn't kidding about our campus.... the only time I thought the cheesecake was a good thing was when the grandmother of our rush chair (the grandmother had raised her) came to stay during recruitment and made all these individual cheesecakes that were darling (and delicious- and I don't even like cheesecake!). We also personalized them with the KD letters in some sort of berry sauce and also wrote the PNM's name on them.

I would recommend getting one of those cake stands with levels. Then you could have top-tier cheesecake, middle-tier cheesecake, and bottom-tier cheesecake.