Family Feud was on and I was half heartedly watching. One question asked was to name something people toast to. The family got “weddings” right away but then things stalled. Usually I can tell if an answer has a chance to appear on the board but in this case there were multiple guesses but few hits. Then I realized I had no good idea of what people toast. In fact I don’t recall toasting to anything myself. My family did not drink and I gave it up 40 years ago. I might have done some casual, spur of the moment toast when out with friends but I certainly don’t remember any. Here’s to me!
Job promotion?
One of the guesses, but buzzzzzzzz!
From the British version.
The King!
I was at a ceremony after Her Majesty’s death when that toast was offered.
Health
Absent friends
Happy New Years
“To my big brother George, the richest man in town.”
Sorry, but I just had to say it.
I noticed that, as the kids grew and stopped going to church, we switched from saying grace to one of them raising a glass of wine and saying something like “To family and good food!”
Or “To Mom’s shrimp and sausage gumbo!” “Amen!”
Special birthday/anniversary?
A birth (first grandchild)?
College graduation?
That your family doesn’t drink alcohol doesn’t mean they can’t raise a toast. Just do it with the non-alcoholic beverage of your choice.
To life, to life, L’chaim!
I like the L’chaim toast.
When visiting with my Norwegian family we can sometimes toast all night about everything and everyone - “Skål”
My Polish friend does a birthday toast “Sto lat” which means 100 years. There’s also a little song about that.
Serious drinkers never run out of things to toast. As a last resort they’ll give a toast to toasting.
To absent friends. To the chef. Here in the UK, we chink glasses just when we’ve got the first drink of the night which is a toast, but I’m not sure what of.
Weddings are a rich source as you toast everything - the bride, the happy couple, the bridesmaids, the mothers… I once went to a jewish wedding in London where we toasted the Queen and then the President of Israel, which was a new one on me.
I’ve sung that song hundreds of times. I believe it translates to “May you live 100 years.”
Which always makes me wonder - do you sing it to someone who is celebrating their 102nd birthday?
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Fair winds and following seas.
“To Harry S. Truman!”
“To Bess Truman!”
“To err is Truman!”
Beautiful toast!
I don’t think I want to live 100 years though lol…
I was thinking that, too, but for some reason it is rarely done.