Advice needed, Any Greek People here?
 

Can someone tell me something aboug name parties?

I was invited to one last night and I am expected to show.

All i know is that there will be free food and belly dancers.

Do I need to bring a gift? Do I bring Ouzo? A shank of lamb? A hunk of feta?

I may be the only non-greek there, but I hate to turn down a party and I'm sure there will be nice looking women there.

Advice please.

I'm Greek. Yiassou.

Bring a bottle of Metaxa. Can't go wrong with that, and Greeks can never have enough Metaxa.

Chris - ATKCash

Thanks.

He's a Nick i guess they are just celebrating this Friday.

OPA!

I figure there were no greeks on here, they all own or work in diners and pizzeria's lol

The Sponge docks hold all your anwsers :winkwink:

No problem! Have a good time... name-days are fun. Mine's Christmas day, so I usually get gyped for gifts. :winkwink:

If these are REAL Greeks, which I suspect is the case because only real ones throw name parties, they will get you *drunk.* And if they're dancing, you'll be drunk AND dizzy.

If you wanna impress them, request your Ouzo on the rocks so it turns milky white and sip it. :thumbsup

OPA!

Christos - ATK

So true... my grandparents owned diners in upstate NY and Long Island for years.

Two FACTS about Greeks: we can cook, and we can make love.

yeah, "work" is not one of these two things :winkwink:

Being Greek myself, A bottle of Metaxa is a nice suggestion. Bring some 5's and 10's for the belly dancers too.

I'm still recovering from a wedding I attended in New York a couple of weeks ago. You will always have a great time at any Greek party.

exactly... because (see above post about restaurants) cooking IS work. :1orglaugh

btw - greece is one of my favorite countries - i still dream of having a boat there, wasting the day with a nice bottle of retsina :glugglug

I'm on the damn atkins diet, non-family parties are going to throw me off.

Damn.

Yeah, I will probably be the only non-greek there. I live in a predominantly Greek area.

I love Greek food, it's one of my favorites and part of the reason I'm tubby.

There are some amazing Greek women in the area too.

I find it funny that Greek Americans that have lived here most of their life if not all of their lives have such thick accents. I've met more than one American born Greek who learned Greek as a first language.

Interesting culture to me.

I love Greek food. I plan to go to Greece someday. Gosh it looks amazing. :thumbsup

Lo and behold, not only do I find a real Greek woman on our site for you, but it's about as appropriate to your situation as can be. This is what Greek women look like at the END of name parties. OPA!

http://atkcash.com/hl/greek.jpg

:thumbsup Christos - ATK

Based on our location of "Sunshine State" I would bet my bottom dollar you either live in Tarpon Springs or Clearwater. According to my Grandmother, I have a number of cousins and aunts there that I've never met. If they're Greek, I'm somehow remotely related to them, at least in her mind.

What's a 'name party'?

A person's name day is the feast day of the saint after which they were named.

Shamelessly pasted from this page. which has a nifty chart of names and name-days. You can find yours even if you aren't Greek and have another excuse to throw a party.

Name Days, not birthdays, are celebrated in Greece. Great significance is attached to the name given a child, and the process of choosing a name follows fairly rigid conventions. The idea of a child being given a name just because the parents like the sound of it is unknown in Greece. Even naming a child after someone as a mark of respect or admiration is unusual.

Children are never named after parents, but the eldest son in a family is often called after his paternal grandfather and the oldest daughter after her paternal grandmother. Names are usually of religious origin. Each island or area in Greece has a patron saint, and people living in that area often name a child after its patron saint.

Each saint has a special feast day. A person's name day is the feast day of the saint after which they were named. On someone's name day, open house is held and a feast is laid on for the friends and neighbours who call. They will give a small gift to the person whose names day it is, but there is less emphasis on the giving of presents than there is in birthday celebrations.

did you know that "pornography" is actually a greek word meaning "writing about prostitutes"...the greeks invented every word

NAME DAYS are bigger then B-DAYS

I was *waiting* for you to chime in!! :winkwink:

no idea-----

Hello... greek man here from Athens !!!! :D

Well I thought I was the only greek here but i was wrong.

Kalispera se olous

Yes Tarpon Spring and Clearwater are both heavily Greek.

It was funny when I was looking around at homes I got a lot of blank stares and even some dirty looks for house shopping there. It seems everyone is Greek. To me that was a plus because I have only in my life met one Greek that I didn't like. However, I wasn't sure if I would feel comfortable in a neighborhood that didn't want me.

Well as it turns out I think they were just being nosy. My Greek neighbors are the nicest. One gave me a really nice Papaya tree and has the best gardening advice.

Greeks are SO overated people

watch your back, not to be trusted

I knew they are loud, selfish, and arrogant, but now I found they are also pussies enough to skip my posts lol

let me guess: you live on the turkish side of cyprus, right?

got you

Greek here testing our response time :glugglug

:1orglaugh seems as if they failed, they're probably eating or fucking :1orglaugh

Yia sas Pedia,

hm, odd to write greek and not use the cyrillic alphabet:-)

If you bring ouzo, put some thought in to it. Don´t just buy the cheapest one. Try to find one that is produced in the area of greece where the person who has his name day is from.

And how is it with Metaxa, there is a 3, 5 & 7 star Metaxa. But if I rember correctly the 5 star one is the one that is most commonly liked. To me they all taste like gasoline.

Have fun and enjoy the party. You will probably not be in charge of either how much you have to eat or drink :winkwink:

how is that stuff called that they drink besides Ouzo or Metaxa?? lots of people make that themselves - looks like water, but burns like fire... i forgot, they told me the name before i drank it - so it was erased again immediately :1orglaugh

ha - i remember: Tsipouros - beware of that! :Oh crap

tsipouro and tsikoudia

tsipouro is the best

This thread makes me feel warm and fuzzy and my grandmother would be proud. As a Greek American who moved away from his Greek family long ago and doesn't get to hear (or think) Greek much... this has been refreshing.

Xapika pou sas gnorisa. Euxaristo kai xponia polla!

exactly, it may sound dumb to non-greeks,but really it's an important matter for a greek to give the name of his father to his son or the name of his mother to his daughter.


xronia polla xristo :)