Each people is also unique in their simple daily customs, from how yogurt jars are reused to how the wedding bed is made. In the post, 10 bizarre customs about Greece that will make you smile or raise an eyebrow!
A people is known not only by its culture and tradition, but also by the simplest, everyday customs and these are what make it unique. The Greeks have a lot of bizarre. In the post, we will tell you about 10 curiosities about Greece that will amaze you.
Curiosities about Greece that you may not have known about
1. The yogurt jar
Here we must talk about a jar because it is certainly not the jar we Italians are used to! They buy half a kilo of yogurt precisely because they also use it to cook their typical dishes and not just to eat it with a spoon as we do.
And then when the yogurt runs out, a thousand re-uses are invented, some of them quite bizarre: fruit bowl, bowl to mix something, bowl for watering, bowl for the dog, container for detergents and room for imagination ...
2. The toilet paper
You may have noticed this if you have already been to Greece several times; while if you have never come for sure you will be traumatized. Toilet paper is not thrown in the toilet, but in the waste bin! In many hotels and restaurants you will find the sign posted in the bathroom that will invite you to perform this unusual (and certainly unhygienic) gesture. The reason for this curiosities about Greece is that unfortunately there is not always a good sewage system.
3. Coffee
You will almost never see a Greek without his glass of cold coffee early in the morning, in the afternoon and even late in the evening. It is an extension of the arm, they take it with them everywhere: while walking, on the beach, in the office.
The Greek people are very addicted to caffeine and many do not know that the Greeks are indeed a stressed people, not as relaxed as is often believed.
4. Religiosity
Pay attention when you enter the Orthodox churches. More often you will see women making the gesture of repeatedly kissing the sacred icons and then removing the mouth (or lipstick) mark from the glass that protects the icon. Someone simply shakes his head when seeing them ... but on the other hand, everyone has their customs.
5. Everything OK?
I didn't even know this before I came to Greece. The word OK is not of Anglo-Saxon derivation, but Greek, that is, in its entirety "Ola Kala" what does it mean tutto bene.
6. Ancient beliefs
I once asked a Greek lady if there are still people who believe in the ancient gods that mythology is imbued with and she answered in the affirmative, especially among older people, which is why there are often little girls with the name Aphrodites and Athina (Aphrodite and Athena).
7. Obsessions
Greek women are plagued with an obsession with cleanliness. Their favorite product is Klorina, chlorine, they use it EVERYWHERE! Most of the kitchen and bathroom and some take a bottle on vacation to use it even in the hotel, you never know that they have not disinfected well ...
8. Amulets
Although they are of Orthodox religion for the most part, the Greeks love to surround themselves with amulets, especially the eye of Allah, a "good luck charm" that looks just like an eye, usually blue in color, which is hung in the house, on the car and even as a necklace. They are very superstitious!
9. matrimonio
Maybe one of the curiosities about Greece more bizarre and that many ignore. The preparation of the wedding bed. Girls who are friends or relatives of the bride, strictly virgins, must set up the nuptial alcove the day before the wedding.
10. Male chauvinism
Unfortunately it is not only a Greek phenomenon, but still very much felt here. The submission of the woman once she became a wife and mother, but generally the lack of respect for the female gender that some men still perpetrate.
Surely you will have rolled your eyes reading how many peculiarities a people have to show, I really hope I have tickled your curiosity, so as to push you to come and meet them in person.
