![]() Make sure there’s something in your glass. Make sure you look the person you’re toasting in the eye, otherwise it’s seven years of bad luck (and no one wants that!). Look the other person in the eye! It didn’t begin as an Italian tradition, but we’ve adopted it.There’s even a theory that the clinking sound was made to scare away any lurking evil spirits! Only hearing is missing, and by making the clinking sound the five senses are complete!.You can feel it as it enters the bloodstream (and goes to your head).One theory is that a vigorous clink would mean that a little of your drink splashed into the other person’s glass (and vice versa) so it was sure right away that no one was poisoning anyone else!Īnother possible explanation for clinking glasses is that you’re satisfying all five senses: We’ll leave this one out of the ‘official’ rules.įun Fact: There are lots of legends about why people clink glasses. Rules For Toasting In Italy – Should You Clink Glasses?Ĭlinking glasses can be ‘controversial.’ Some say it’s not proper etiquette, while others are too lazy to clink glasses with the entire table (which you must do if anyone clinks during the cheers). So that’s the story of the verb ‘to toast’, but what do we actually say when we clink the glasses in Italy (our version of cheers)? ![]() So, from bring dir’s to brindis to the modern-day Italian brindisi! Spanish troops took up the toast of their German counterparts and transformed the verb into brindis. Their toast was bring dir’s (literally, I bring/give to you).ĭuring the same period, many parts of Italy were under Spanish (Aragonese) control, including the Duchy of Milan. German soldiers known as Lanzechenecchi or Landsknecht were mercenary troops who were the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire’s Army from the 15th – 17th centuries. It’s a verb that has made its way through German to Spanish and then into Italian.ĭifferent areas of Italy have been dominated by different populations. In Italian the verb ‘to toast’ is brindare or fare un brindisi. Today we prefer to drink to the health of the living. This custom may come from the rite of drinking to the gods and to the dead in ancient Rome and Greece at banquets. Let’s celebrate! In English we ‘toast’ or ‘raise our glasses’ (and later clink them gently together). Cheers in Italian – How we say ‘cheers’ in Italy, when we say it, and Italian toasting rules
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