Last year, Jennifer Lopez launched an alcohol/cocktail line called Delola. They’re basically premixed cocktails sold in bottles with all of the modern branding (“hand-crafted, vegan!”) at exorbitant prices. I have no idea if Delola is selling well, or if this is just something J.Lo has slapped her name on. Considering she’s never been known as a drinker at all – even a casual drinker – it does feel like she just wanted to cash in on the lucrative celebrity-liquor craze. Well, Delola is offering a new drink for the summer: a lite, low-calorie margarita. To promote the new drink, J.Lo recently chatted with Harper’s Bazaar about booze, food, cooking and more. Some highlights:

Margaritas are the most popular cocktail in the US: “For me, it was the perfect addition because of what you just said: It’s the most popular cocktail in the United States. People love a margarita. We all love an occasional margarita. And we wanted to create a ready-to-enjoy option, since we all know that making a margarita from scratch takes a little bit of effort and it’s a little bit of a mess. It was just the perfect fit for our our brand. It’s easy, it has great flavor, it’s low in sugar. So, it’s a healthier option. It only has like 125 calories per serving.

Her favorite Latin foods: “The first thing that comes to my mind is arroz con gandules y pernil (a Puerto Rican rice dish), for some reason, but it could be anything, to be quite honest. I mean, just all different types of Latin cuisine. I do think of Mexico; I think of Cinco de Mayo.

She loves to cook? “I love to cook. My kids love to bake. I love hosting at home, family and friends, especially now that the weather is warmer. I like to have people over. I don’t like to go out a bunch.

She doesn’t drink that much: “For me, it’s the drink that was missing for somebody who’s a light drinker. Cocktails always seemed so heavy to me—it seemed like so much alcohol content, so much sugar, so many calories, you know? It just wasn’t right for me. And that’s why I decided to create something that felt right for me, and that I think a lot of other people will appreciate. I’m also very busy. I don’t want to be spending time making cocktails. When my friends come over, it’s like: Pour it over ice in a wine glass and we’re done, you know?

She swears that she does have a drink every now & then: “I have done it, yeah. I’m so fortunate at times to be going to these really dreamy events—whether it’s a big awards show or a premiere or something. And so, we’re always trying to not just make it feel like work all the time, and instead make it feel like a special occasion. So we have fun with it, and have a little cocktail right before we leave, and stuff like that—especially when the glam squad is over!

The viral “orange drink” from her bodega order: “Haha, I know that there was a lot of talk about it. But the orange drink was basically … it’s just a plain orange drink. It came in a little plastic container with a little bit of aluminum foil over it. And it wasn’t called anything except orange drink or grape drink or whatever. There was orange, a grape, and a fruit punch. And that’s why I said, “If you know you know,” because you bought it in the bodega and I used to go after school and get that for like … I mean, this is many, many years ago, it was worth 25 cents, and I got it with a bag of potato chips. And that was like my after-school treat for myself.

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

The orange drink thing is so weird and it’s become yet another “thing” which people have weaponized against her, like she’s fake for saying “orange drink, if you know you know.” The youths don’t know that, back in the day, convenience stores and bodegas had mystery drinks like that all the time. It was probably just some no-name orange soda or a sugary orange juice. Now, all that being said, she IS lying about drinking booze. Please, she barely drinks and I don’t even believe that she has a cocktail when she’s getting ready for a red carpet or awards show.

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