A closer look
Hungarians strictly refuse to clink their beer glasses together during a toast, a tradition that dates back to the 1848 revolution when Austrians allegedly celebrated the execution of Hungarian generals by aggressively clinking their steins. To this day, maintaining eye contact and saying cheers is fine, but tapping your pint glass against someone else's will immediately mark you as an ignorant tourist or an accidental sympathizer of a nineteenth-century empire. It is a fantastic reminder that when you travel, your polite little drinking habits might secretly be an offensive historical faux pas, and you should probably just drink your incredibly cheap Budapest lager in completely silent, motionless paranoia
