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I have never encountered or heard of this behaviour. I would be rather startled if someone I had just met asked me to buy them a drink. I'd guess they were too poor to get their own (and with all respect to poor people, my interest in pursuing a relationship with them would substantially diminish).
I can understand your explanation, but I would find an opposite explanation just as plausible (they are trying to determine if the cost of a drink is a mere trifle to you, hence buying them one = good).
Is this a culturally specific thing? Where is this action, with this meaning, a standard pattern of behaviour?
It seems very weird to me that this seems unfamiliar to you. It's a cliche in movies and the like.
It's a cliche in movies but it's actually rare in real life, in my experience, except as a joke.
I just realized that one person's joke is another person's status test, of course.