For most of us, there are no big rituals that dictate drinking. Finishing the broken bottle is the biggest goal and hope. But in some other countries of the world, people have different customs and traditions that are followed when drinking alcohol. This is going to tell about some of them.
1. Vodka overflowing Russia
What comes to mind when you think of Russia? Is it vodka? Among the Russians who seem to drink vodka as much as water, there are several rituals that are followed when drinking this type of drink. One is that a drinking glass with vodka should never be placed on a table, the glass should be emptied if placed on the table. Although the story about the glass is the same, these people follow a different ritual regarding the empty bottles. That is, empty bottles are never left on the table. They keep empty alcohol bottles on the floor.
2. The Hungarians’ Cheers Kirill debacle
Like us, the Hungarians probably cheer when they pour a drink. But they don’t do the same thing we do. That’s when you hit the glasses while doing the cheers. There is a special reason why Hungarians don’t do that. A group of Hungarian revolutionaries who launched a rebellion against Austria in 1848 are put to death. Austrians celebrate the kill by clinking beer glasses. Because of that unpleasant past incident, Hungarians do not clink glasses when drinking alcohol.
3. Wait for others to wait for Japan
Japan’s honey culture is also very colorful. The Japanese are a nation that behaves with respect. That Japanese quality can also be seen in their honeymoon. In Japan, when you drink some alcohol, you don’t pour yourself a shot. Instead, the other companion drinking with him should fill the glass. Then we have to fill that person’s glass. That’s how they take turns to drink.
4. Beer circle in Peru
People in Peru follow a strange ritual when drinking beer. This ritual called Beer Circle happens like this. A group of people are sitting around a table. One person buys a bottle of beer and brings a glass. The first thing he does is fill the beer glass and give the bottle with the remaining beer to the friend next to him. After that, he drinks the glass of beer he has filled and if there is any foam left in it, he pours it on the floor. Then give the glass to the friend on the other side. Now that friend has to fill the glass with beer and give the bottle to the person next to him. That’s how people in Peru drink beer while passing the bottle and the glass alternately.
5. Wine-loving France
France is a country where people who are very fond of wine live in a very classy way. So France has a lot of drinking traditions associated with wine. Some of these are changing now. Anyway, an old tradition related to alcohol in France is that it is not very appropriate for women to pour themselves alcohol. That’s why it is always a man at the table who should pour wine or other alcohol to the woman. If there are only women at the table, one woman can take over the work. In Japan as well as in France, the custom is to let someone else fill your glass instead of filling it yourself.
6. Head butt in the Netherlands
A head butt is an attack with the head. There is an ancient drinking ritual in the Netherlands with this name. It involves drinking a glass of alcohol in a strange way. When drinking in this way, the waiter brings a small tulip-shaped shot glass in front of the person drinking. Most of the time, this shot glass is filled with a special type of gin. Now what the drinker has to do is put his hands behind his back, bend his back (without holding the glass with his hands) and take a sip from the drink on the table with his lips. After doing that, you can finish the rest of your drink as usual.
7. The strangest carvings in Spain
The Spanish are a group of people who have strange carvings while drinking. The most special among them are the strange things that people are used to doing while drinking. One of them is to cheer and drink the shot by spinning the foot of the glass on the table and finally tap the glass on the table and pour the shot. That’s not the worst part, in Spanish you have to look into the eyes of the other person you cheered at the moment you take the shot after cheering. The Spaniards believe that if they don’t do that, there will be a poison disaster. You know what happened next. The happiness of the sex life of the person who didn’t do that will go away for 7 years.
