Favorite Rush Foods!!!
 

To get in the spirit of those who are rushing in the winter ...

What were you favorite foods from rush?

I'd have to go with chocolate covered strawberries, shrimp and dip, sushi (yum!) and 'mocktails' (i.e. kiddie cocktails ... I love those even though I'm not a kid anymore).

The sad thing is that during our rush the rushees only ate about 30% of the food ... actually not so sad because we all raided the kitchen afterwards.

Petit fours and pink and green turtle sugar cookies! Those are my two favorites!

Rushees are usually so nervous that they barely touch their food, so after they leave we always have plenty to munch on! I always volunteer to help the collegiates out with pref parties during Rush since that's when all the fun food is brought out. YUMMY! :)

Chocolate covered strawberries, those mini cheesecakes and fruit and dip. We ALWAYS have tons left over, so before we start voting, everyone gets a plate and has a snack, since voting takes awhile :)

I've never seen the mini cheese cakes .... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!
I'll have to bring that one up!

Definitely the chocolate covered strawberries. Since the strawberry is a ZTA symbol, we had tons. I wish I had one now!

At Chi Omega, we give each of the rushees a cake with their name written on it in frosting. The girls are stunned when they get it.

Dream Cake - enough said!

How do you do this? We only get our returns about an hour (sometimes less) before pref. starts. Not that our anal panhel. would allow it anyway.

We don't have food until Pref day at the Country Club. We had strawberries, melon and cheese cake a couple of years ago-- our colors- Red, Buff, and Green. This year we just had cheesecake.

While I love chocolate covered strawberries I do not like them for rush unless you get very small ones that can be eaten in one bite. Otherwise you take one bite and the chocolate heads one way the strawberry another -what a mess.

I love tiny petit fours, so elegant!
Fruit with a great dip is fun too.

We did personalized cookies with the new members' names on it for our bid day party. Baked the cookies ahead of time, then wrote the names on them as soon as we got our bid list. The only problem was when one of our new members turned out to be diabetic, and she had this beautiful personalized cookie that she couldn't eat :(

My personal favorite was homemade sushi. One of my sisters knew how to make it, so on the day of pref, she and I and a couple of other people got together in her kitchen and made a bunch of rolls. All veggie - raw fish doesn't hold up too well in August :) The rushees barely touched it, so we had a LOT left over to munch on during our final voting round. :)

I actually have no idea how we do it. I think that more than likely we get a cake for every girl going through rush. Our rush usually only has 60 girls tops going through, so our cuts are never brutal. Also, I know this may sound snobby, but no one ever really turns us down for an invitational party. I think it's a little different, because we have a really small greek system.

That would explain it. We have about 60 girls per party and 3 parties. Trying to get their names on cake would be a nightmare. Our chapter policy is also that only CRIB (Collegiate Recruitment Information Board) knows who is being released. So we could not even begin the frosting until about an hour before parties. I can see the mass chaos now.

Re: Favorite Rush Foods!!!
 

Oh my LORD!! WHAT KIND OF RUSH BUDGET DID YOU HAVE?!

That food sounds absolutely incredible...darn, you know U of I was my second-choice school, shoulda gone there :) nah, I liked my college. In any event...

My chapter had very supportive alums who made all our food, and we tried to keep things healthy because we were eating it too. There were always veggies and dip, and cookies cut out in the shape of the Kappa symbols. There were also these amazing cucumber sandwiches, on little rye bread squares with some kind of yummy dressing and cucumber slices.

For pref party, we had more sweet stuff, the alums made lemon bars and things like that, nothing I really remember. No personalized food, we only find out who got bids about half an hour before bid night parties start. Then we eat leftovers, heehee, and other good stuff.

The day after bid parties there's always a NM/activ/alum luncheon with wonderful lasagna (both vegetarian and not) and cake, all made by our alums.

We had for pref the best ice cream cake stuff ever! We had an amazing cook, Margaret, who is still there...she made an Ice Cream Oreo cake. Oreo crust on top and bottom, cookies and cream ice cream inside...mmmmmm!

The year I went through she made this frozen strawberry thing, that was awesome! Also...that whipped cream/chocolate pudding cake (it has tons of names, dream whip cake, better than sex cake..etc.) is great.

We always did just one simple dessert, worked very well, and was served by our alumnae (since the house boys/men could not be present during recruitment).
The ASA's did big sugar cookies with our names on it in icing (we got our lists the night before, so plenty of time). The Chi Omega's did cake with red and yellow.

We usually have mixed fruit, mini quiche, these little hors douvre roll thingies, and pimiento cheese or chicken salad finger sandwiches that are made in a ravioli press so that they are sort of filled sandwiches...you'd have to see it. Then that gets taken away and you get turtle cheesecake (he he) or this year we had white petit fours with a pink rose with green stem...sooooo pretty. And to drink there is some kind of really yummy red fake champagne punch stuff. Everyone loves it. I would make it all the time if I could remember how! Oh yeah...I forgot the chocolate covered strawberries!

As for writing the names, we don't do that, but some chapters have before and they do it very speedily as soon as they get their pref lists. So when the rho chis show up with the girls, they come to the door and freak out because "oh crap, you can't already be here 'cause we're still writing names on the cookie crowns!" (that girl looked so panicked...it was cute, I loved being a rho chi!). The personalization really makes the girls feel good.