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Show Drinking Toast Dates Back to Pagan Times Just as nutmeg, spices and so on are --' still sometimes put into such n drink, as "punch," so In the olden days a common custom was to slip n mite of toasted hreail into a glass of ale with j.. the Idea that the taste was thereby . .. Improved. Ami so It came about that , a drink was called n toast. The custom of drinking to someone , ... really dates from the old pagan days when sucrltlces used to be made to the cods. Later en an offering of wine was made Instead. Its red color typl-.' typl-.' fylrnt the actual blood of the real sacritloe. Later still men made their offerings not to the Rods but In honor of a friend. So our ancestors would ' ' drink a glass or toast In honor of "- someone, and the person honored was " lis often as not called a toast for short. |