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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: GrayBeard on October 09, 2010, 09:44:21 pm

Title: Things I Didn't Know!
Post by: GrayBeard on October 09, 2010, 09:44:21 pm

Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?

A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously.
When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.

And now we know!

~~~GB~~~

Title: Re: Things I Didn't Know!
Post by: Marcellarius on October 10, 2010, 06:53:39 am

sound plausible to me.

Title: Re: Things I Didn't Know!
Post by: Russ C on October 10, 2010, 07:03:49 am

I wonder if someone ever forgot witch glass they put the poison in?  ::)