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Friday, September 13, 2013

TAXIDI Smashing Plates To Opa

To the great dismay of Greeks, the custom of breaking plates was banned during the 1960's by the dictator Georgios Papadopoulos. His xenophobic politics might still be simmering below the surface in Greece, but poor Georgios isn't around these days to see the plates raining down like hailstones around us. We were in a backstreet restaurant in Pastida on the Greek island of Rhodes, the ...

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