Here are a list of tropes to do in some way with potables; drinks, beverages, thirst quenchers, what have you. For tropes about just alcoholic beverages, head on over to Hard-Drinking Tropes (and have two pieces of ID handy.)
And now that you've had your drink, if you're hungry you should also visit the related index Food Tropes and its subcategories.
Tropes:
Also see:
- Hard-Drinking Tropes (alcohol)
- Instant Index: Just Add Water!
- A Whole Latte Tropes (coffee/tea)
- And a Diet Coke: Where a person orders numerous fattening foods, but the last one is some form of diet food.
- Asians Love Tea: An Asian character is an avid tea-drinker.
- Bad to the Last Drop: A non-alcoholic drink that tastes bad, most often coffee.
- Bar Slide: A cup being slid across a table in a cool way.
- Bizarre Beverage Use: Using a beverage for something besides drinking.
- Brain Freeze: Getting a headache from cold food or drink.
- Brits Love Tea: British people always drink tea.
- Caffeine Failure: When caffeine doesn't make you energetic like it should.
- Calming Tea: Tea is used to soothe frazzled nerves, anxiety, and other extreme moods.
- Can-Crushing Cranium: When a character crushes a drink can against his forehead.
- Coffee Shop AU Fic: A fanfic where the cast works at or regularly visits a coffee shop.
- Comical Coffee Cup: A character's coffee cup has an amusing slogan on it.
- Constantly Lactating Cow: Cows and livestock can always be milked.
- Cool, Clear Water: All clear water is perfectly clean enough to drink.
- Discreet Drink Disposal: A character secretly dumps out a drink they don't want to consume.
- Distressed Drink Jitters: Showing anxiety via shaking hands while trying to hold a drink.
- The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: A child ropes someone into playing tea party.
- Drink-Based Characterization: Character has a favourite drink, which is an indicator of their personality.
- Drunk on Milk: Character gets drunk off a non-alcoholic beverage.
- Frothy Mugs of Water: Alcohol is dubbed into non-alcoholic beverages, but still behaves like alcohol.
- Gargle Blaster: A drink that is infamous for its unusual effects.
- Gigantic Gulp: Drinking from a very big cup.
- Hot Drink Cure: A sick, hoarse, injured, or hypothermic character is given a hot drink.
- Hot Sauce Drinking: A character drinks hot sauce, either accidentally or intentionally.
- I Do Not Drink Wine: Alien won't eat or drink our food and drink.
- I Drank WHAT?!: Accidentally eating/drinking non-food/drink.
- Klatchian Coffee: Coffee that makes your brain go into warp-speed.
- Lactating Male: A male who can produce milk.
- Lactose over Liquor: Ordering milk in a place that usually serves alcohol.
- Lemonade Stand Plot: One or more characters start their own lemonade stand.
- Libation for the Dead: Pouring a drink on the ground for spirits or gods.
- Magic Potion: A drink with magical properties.
- Mid-Battle Tea Break: Briefly interrupting a battle scene to do something ridiculous, often a tea party.
- Must Have Caffeine: Character is "addicted" to caffeine.
- The Noisy Straw: Producing noise when slurping through a straw even if the glass is not empty.
- No Such Thing as Dehydration: Video game characters can live without drinking anything.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: A character has a very complex beverage order.
- Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Two or more enemies have a drink. One of the drinks is poisoned and the glasses get switched around.
- Poisoned Drink Drop: A poisoning is signified by a beverage being dropped.
- Reading Tea Leaves: Divination via tea, coffee or wine in a cup.
- Real Men Take It Black: Preferring black coffee is associated with toughness.
- Science Cocktail: Creating a drink with a chemistry set.
- Screwball Serum: Someone ingests a mysterious concoction and it either shapeshifts them or changes their personality.
- Slipping a Mickey: Putting a knockout drug into a drink.
- Soda-Candy 'Splosion: When a combination of soda and candy creates an eruptive geyser.
- Soda Can Shakeup: A shaken soda can will open with explosive, fizzy results.
- Spit Take: Spitting out food or drink, often due to surprise.
- Spraying Drink from Nose: When a drink shoots out of someone's nose due to surprise, laughter, or whatever.
- Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: A chief steps out for a break, often to get coffee, providing the hero with enough time to steal files or read up on something.
- Sweetheart Sipping: Two love interests share a drink.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Putting deadly poison in food or drink.
- Tea Is Classy: Tea is used to indicate that a character is of high class.
- That Poor Plant: A plant dies after being fed disgusting food or drink.
- Toilet-Drinking Dog Gag: A joke about dogs drinking from toilets.
- Umbrella Drink: A drink decorated with a little umbrella.
- Uncoffee: A parody of coffee.
- Unconventional Smoothie: A smoothie with unusual ingredients.
- Unsuspectingly Soused: Someone eats or drinks something unaware there is alcohol in what they're devouring and become intoxicated as a result. Hilarity or something dark may ensue.
- Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: Trouble sleeping? Some warm milk will get the job done.
- You, Get Me Coffee: A newbie or rookie is assigned a trivial task, such as getting the boss a cup of coffee.
- You're Drinking Breast Milk: A character mistakes human breast milk for cows' milk.
