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LaurenEMorrill
07-08-2010, 06:15 AM
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this question ... but I need some info from some UK folks (or anyone who's ever partied in the UK!)



Do teenagers drink out of kegs and solo cups in the UK? I'm writing a scene set at a London house party (wealthy teens partying like crazy). I have them drinking out of red solo cups filled from a keg, but I want to be sure this isn't a totally American phenomenon...


SO, tell me, what was it like the last time you were at a London teenage house party?
Jumpy2
07-08-2010, 08:36 AM
Apparently the red cup is only an American thing. But that's just what I've heard.
Momento Mori
07-08-2010, 01:06 PM
As a Brit, I've never been a party with a keg. You're more likely to find loads of bottles of beer or spirit mixers (or even - shudder - alcopops).

We do have plastic cups but I've never seen red plastic cups (doesn't mean we don't have them - I've just never seen them).

MM
bertrigby
07-08-2010, 03:23 PM
The red plastic cup is a thing of legend in the UK. You see them in movies and everyone wonders if people really use them in the US...and now I see that you do!

Wealthy teens partying like crazy would probably be drinking spirits - expensive vodka brands, shots etc.
egoodlett
07-08-2010, 05:32 PM
Also, if they go to a bar or anything, I've noticed that almost none of the bars I've been to in the UK served the fancier mixed drinks (cosmos, manhattans, etc). I got weird looks when I asked for a cosmopolitan <.<
Vodka and lemonade ftw!
LaurenEMorrill
07-08-2010, 07:45 PM
Yay! Thanks guys. My editor read the passage and said she thought the red cups didn't "cross the pond," as they say, but she wasn't for certain.

I'll get to rewriting that now!
Mistress Elysia
07-08-2010, 07:56 PM
We drink pints, or if that's not possible, straight out of the bottle here. Cider (Strongbow was our tipple of choice), alcopops (like WKD) and Vodka Redbulls with a possible lager or two tend to be the teenage tipples of choice. I didn't have a clue what a 'kegger' was as a teenager, and by the questions my pupils ask me at school, neither do they!