# re:why does people clink their glasses together after a toast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 24, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-why-does-people-clink-their-glasses-together-after-a-toast/220762 "2003-12-24T01:52:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kageshirou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@kageshirou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kageshirou)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-why-does-people-clink-their-glasses-together-after-a-toast/220762/1 "2003-12-24T01:52:03Z")
I’ve heard from my food & nutrition teacher that the missing part of a meal is sound, you have taste, sight, smell and touch, but sound is missing from the meal, so people clink their glasses right before they eat. The source came from a video. That might be the answer. [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mclink.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mclink.html) here’s that site to the staff report ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-why-does-people-clink-their-glasses-together-after-a-toast/220762/2 "2003-12-24T02:00:05Z")
But there’s lots of sound at a meal, unless you stuff cotton in your ears. I don’t buy it. ---
**Author:** ![kageshirou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@kageshirou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kageshirou)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-why-does-people-clink-their-glasses-together-after-a-toast/220762/3 "2003-12-24T02:21:43Z")
:smack: good point haha i didn’t really bother to think a lot about that, I remembered studying it for a test from my teacher so it just popped up