You can see them in the kitchens of tavernas and restaurants the world over. With the heady smell of superglue masking the familiar smokey fragrance of kebabs they hunch over piles of tragic shards, the result of millions of Zorba's noisy crockery-smashing dances.
The tradition of claiming 'plates broken while dancing" against tax, thought to have started in Aristotle's time, has been widely blamed for the stricken country's current condition. "Now, the dancing has to stop and the gluing must begin" lamented Souvlakis Theordorakis, owner of the Athens Taverna in London's Stoke Newington. He's part of a global movement to mend and then sell billions of broken plates on the world's crockery markets, the proceeds to be returned to the Greek treasury. But Athens commentator Costas Kavralou regards the mending as a futile gesture. "The genie is out of the bottle," he said. "No, don't put that bit in. It sounds a bit Turkish. 'The stuffing is out of the vine leaf.'.. Better! Yes. The stuffing is out of the vine leaf. There is no going back, however many plates are mended. The government is doomed. Greek civilisation gave the world tragedy. Now history is repeating itself. We have already heard from military sources that the army is dusting off it's bouzoukis."
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