2007-09-19 01:41:33 · 5 answers · asked by Lady G 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
See Copy and Paste's answer. Are you seeing a pattern here?
2007-09-19 03:51:23 · update #1
People clink their glasses before drinking a toast -- 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 touch - or clink - the host's glass with his own.-
2007-09-19 02:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It apparently goes way back to the Middle Ages. They were a paranoid bunch. If your adversary had poisoned you at the dinner table, clinking chalices (glasses) would cause wine – and theoretically poison – to spill from one chalice into the other.
2016-05-18 04:05:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know how that started. Just raise your glass...clinking is tacky.
2007-09-19 01:49:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
one theory is that its to spill wine or whatever you are drinking into each others glasses
so that you are sure none of them has poison in it
all the best
Ian
2007-09-19 01:52:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
toast who ever or what ever
2007-09-19 04:27:20 · answer #5 · answered by hippiemom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋