Alongside these is a fascinating frontispiece engraving by an unknown artist in a 1685 treatise on coffee by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour that depicts three men — representing the Middle East, China and the Americas in native dress — drinking their preferred beverages: coffee, tea and chocolate.
The preferences for type of drink also differed between genders: men mostly preferred drinking spirits on special occasions and many drank beer as well on ordinary days, and among women wine and sparkling wine were more popular.
The elite took pride in not drinking pulque, a drink of commoners, and preferred drinks made from cacao, among the most prestigious luxuries available.
He preferred drinking and gambling.
Apparently star pitchers Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, and John Lackey preferred "drinking beer, eating fast-food fried chicken, and playing video games in the clubhouse" while their team disintegrated.
Well, for starters, he said, President Woodrow Wilson suffered an incapacitating stroke at the end of 1919, while his successor, Warren G. Harding, universally considered one of the worst presidents in American history, preferred drinking, playing poker and golf, and womanizing, to governing.
During the days leading up to Easter week, drinking chocolate is preferred to coffee.
I preferred drinking Pepsi to doogh [a yogurt drink], which wasn't allowed.
With alcohol consumption among women and young adolescents increasing in the UK (Meng et al., 2014; Smith and Foxcroft, 2009), and preferred drinking venues changing across the life course (Information Services Division, 2010), the role of place should not be overlooked.
Alcohol use information included frequency of alcohol use, frequency of having six or more drinks on one occasion as well as drinking contexts (i.e. preferred types of alcoholic beverages, preferred locations for drinking and preferred persons to drink with).
