Making sense of Greek

[newtothis]

In fact it's more common in a tavern to say.... ένα κιλό κόκκινο κρασί παρακαλώ (despite the fact that litre is the correct word!)

What has always impressed me is that you can ask for wine in any of about eight European languages and the polyglot waiters will understand you.

 

[dgadee]

Thanks for elightenment. I am the worst linguist ever, but will try to concentrate at the back of the class.

 

[Davy_S]

In fact it's more common in a tavern to say.... ένα κιλό κόκκινο κρασί παρακαλώ (despite the fact that litre is the correct word!)

Odd really, just thinking about what you said, if i want half a litre, i always ask for a miso kilo, so i contradict myself and mix litre and kilo , the end result is the same

 

[SandyP]

Odd really, just thinking about what you said, if i want half a litre, i always ask for a miso kilo, so i contradict myself and mix litre and kilo , the end result is the same

Because a litre weighs one kilo
Ενδαχι?

 

[SandyP]

Possibly the most common place is Episkopi
They're everywhere

 

[jordanbasset]

Remember being told by the owner of the family restaurant in Sivota that when ordering white or red wine at a bar/restaurant that there was no need to include the word wine as what else would you be asking for when you say 'half a kilo of white (or red)'
So for us it was just 'miso kilo aspro'

 

[SandyP]

Remember being told by the owner of the family restaurant in Sivota that when ordering white or red wine at a bar/restaurant that there was no need to include the word wine as what else would you be asking for when you say 'half a kilo of white (or red)'
So for us it was just 'miso kilo aspro'

Don't do it here, you might get diesel

 

[cmedsailor]

Because a litre weighs one kilo
Ενδαχι?

This is for water ?

 

[newtothis]

Don't do it here, you might get diesel

Diesel and Greek wine are not entirely dissimilar.

 

[westernman]

Diesel and Greek wine are not entirely dissimilar.

Retsina not wine is a close relative of bio-diesel.
Normal wine is OK and some of it is actually quite good.

 

[newtothis]

Retsina not wine is a close relative of bio-diesel.
Normal wine is OK and some of it is actually quite good.

The first time I tried retsina I discovered what the Greek word was for paint stripper.

 

[Obi]

Or better yet: ένα λίτρο κόκκινο κρασί παρακαλώ

One is not enough
I was happy to be able to figure that one out, but out of my depth with the replies.

 

[Obi]

Good retsina is fine. Cheap retsina less so.
Also, more or less every guest I had in Greece said they did not like ouzo. By the time they left, every one a convert.