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CONVERSATION COFFEE TIME

(1) Everyone has a duty to talk to the (1) After the toast, coffee is served.
person sitting on either side.
(2) The creamer set is placed on the table
(2) The volume and tone of voice is which contains: brown sugar and
important and must be regulated. creamer goes with coffee, white sugar
and milk goes with tea, but this can be
TOASTING changed depending on personal

preference.
(1) Nowadays, one does not drain a glass
of champagne or wine – a favourite for SMOKING
toast, but take a sip or two so there will
be plenty of wine left for other toasts. Smoking is not allowed at the dinner table.
Upon informal occasions, any drink at
hand may be used when making a toast. WHEN TO LEAVE
It is the word of love appreciation and If a guest of honour or VIP is present, no one
respect which are shown to the person leave until the VIP or guest of honour takes
toasted, which is important.
leave.

(2) It is disrespectful for anyone not to
participate in a toast; a “teetotaller” PASSING THE PORT DECANTER
need only go through the motions of
holding the glass to his lips.

(3) In a dining-in, toast is generally given
at the end of the dinner, during or after
dessert as soon as the wine/champagne
is served and before any speeches are
made.
The Port decanters are uncorked, passed
(4) When you are the one making the toast always to the left, and then stopped, before the
at a formal occasion, you must have Loyal Toast. This practice suggests that the
advance information about the person or wine is served only for that purpose. If the
persons to be toasted in order that your port is passed again the decanters remain
remarks are accurate. unstopped until they are removed. The origin
of the custom of passing the port always to the
(5) When you are receiving a toast, you
remain seated while everyone else left is uncertain. It may be merely symbolic of
stands and you do not sip your drink or the movement of the earth in turning toward
you will be drinking to yourself. After the sun, which ripens the grape.
everyone sits down, you may rise and The custom, which we know from early
thank them and offer a toast in return. biblical times of protecting a man while he is

drinking, continued into a more recent era.

When the cup of cheer was being passed two
men stood at a time, one to drink and the