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What does your favorite drink say about your personality?

Kathy Flanigan / MCT Campus

You’re used to getting advice from all sorts of places, but the Aluminum Can Council might be the most unlikely. A recent survey the council funded reveals what your favorite beverage says about you.
Canned beer drinkers (77 percent) and those who opt for a mix of alcohol and canned energy drinks (70 percent) describe their romantic demeanor as “friendly and open.” Men and women who prefer energy drinks also define themselves as “super sexy” (11 percent) and “smooth as silk” (12 percent).


If you can’t spot the drink in hand, observe how your potential date is acting. The canned beer drinker (36 percent), the energy drink drinker (38 percent) and the wine drinker (34 percent) describe themselves as the life of the party.
Here’s what the council found might happen should romance occur:
Bottled beer drinkers tend to be more open to the idea of committed relationships and have the personality of a bartender. They talk to everyone.
The average canned beer drinker is single, friendly and open and is most often a hard-working, younger professional.
Those who prefer canned energy drinks consider themselves the sexy Casanovas of the 21st century.
Wine drinkers most often are white-collar women who are considered the “ultimate hostess.”
Suave and sophisticated folks who like drinking alcohols such as scotch are typically white-collar divorcees.
Those who like non-alcoholic beverages are often widows or widowers with teenage children.

 

 

61 percent of Elon studentsdrink five or more drinks in one sitting compared to 48.5 percent nationally.
Elon studentsdrink almost twice the amount of alcohol per week than students nationally.
Facts taken from the Elon substance education core data in the Spring of 2005

 

 

Photo courtesy of MCT Campus

Aileen Richardson serves one of the increasingly popular specialty martini drinks for the after-work crowd at a bar in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.