why do greeks smash plates
 

i just went for a meal in a greek place and the guy gave me funny shot an said we should come back on a saturday cos the smash plates seen it in films but why do they do it?

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Dont know

Love to waste money. I dunno

aint it some sort of celebration thing for them... like when they get married they stamp on a glass..'thing' and smash it :s not sure.

I'm a Greek Australian.Not many restaurants in Sydney still do it. One that I know of. It usually happens spontaneously during the dancing where a man is soloing in that carefree drunken sort of way and he smashes a plate as a way to say "nothing matters, materialism doesn't matter, money doesn't matter....enjoy life". Then everyone cheers and joins in. I don't think many restaurants even in Greece still do it so if you get the oppurtunity got along and have a laugh.

It saves on the washing up.

:laugh2: so thats where i have been going wrong

not cheaper rippin paper plates lol