The next metre you bring down the past , keep up these rules to ward off a dinner party faux pas .
ANCIENT GREECE
1 . Napkins have n’t been manufacture yet , so wipe your greasy hands with a musical composition of bread calledapomagdalia . When you ’re complete , have it — along with any other scraps — on the flooring for the dogs .
2 . Do n’t butter that roll ! The Greeks regard consuming butter and milk barbaric . The poet Anaxandrides dissed the Thracians up north by call them “ butter - feeder . ”
BEDOUIN CAMPS
3 . Before and after a repast , scratch your hands in the Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin outside your tent .
4 . If bread falls to the flooring , call the five - second principle : Pick it up , snog it , raise it to your forehead . ( The same practice hold in many other Arab cultures . )
5 . After finishing coffee , shake the cup . If not , your host will just stream you more .
VIKING VILLAGES
6 . Forks wo n’t appear for centuries , so shovel your nutrient down with a sharp knife .
7 . When the drink horn is passed , it ’s rude to decline unless you ’re old or wan .
MEDIEVAL EUROPE
8 . Before carving into a piece of meat in France , take a moment and swear at it .
9 . Erasmus of Rotterdam writes , “ If it is potential to withdraw , [ farting ] should be done alone . But if not … let a coughing shroud the phone . ”
10 . Be civil ! Toss manducate bones onto the floor . Just call back to wait over your shoulder first .
ANCIENT ROME
11 . Eat with your deal , but keep your pinky and ring finger clean .
12 . Do n’t rationalise yourself to go to the restroom . Just habituate a bedchamber smoke at the table .
13 . It ’s rude to refuse food at a banquet , so relinquish up some way by shove a feather down your throat to puke . ( Senecahatedthis , committal to writing , “ They vomit to eat and eat to retch . ” )
1900s HUNGARY
14 . Do n’t tinkle glasses ! When Austria stopped the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 , the Austrian army supposedly celebrated by convey glass together . Bitter Hungarians pledged not to tinkle drinks for another 150 years . Today , it ’s still impolite .
15 . tope from a shoe . Grooms celebrate hymeneals by sipping a pledge from his St. Bridget ’s nuptials slipper .
