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Why Do We Toast?

3/4/2016

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 "You may have heard that the tradition of toasting originated out of a fear of poisoning- the idea being that clinking two glasses together would cause the liquid from both to spill into one another; thus, the people you’re drinking with wouldn’t poison you as they’d then be poisoning themselves. As interesting as this historical rumour is, not surprisingly, there is not a single shred of evidence backing  up this conjecture."  
Read full article at link below.

 http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/the-origin-of-toasting-drinks/

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