Talk:Drinking from shoes

Scope
I think this article can be beefed up a little bit. The article is almost exclusively related to a couple of recent instances of motorsportsmen drinking the celebratory champagne from their own shoe. I daresay there is more to the history of drinking from a shoe (whether it be a lady's shoe or even the German beer boot to which the article links) than the relatively recent trend with which the article deals. Depor23 (talk) 08:37, 3 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I've been padding this out with some history, and it seems possible to write as much about champagne slippers and German beer boots as the modern Australian trend - is it maybe worth moving the article to Drinking from shoes? --McGeddon (talk) 15:15, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 21 November 2016

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The result of the move request was: Moved Fuortu (talk) 17:13, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Shoey → Drinking from shoes – We've got at least two other major examples of drinking from shoes as a form of celebration and/or punishment - the lady's slipper and the German military boot - and both seem at least as significant as the modern "shoey". There's enough here to reframe this as a wider article on the general subject of drinking from shoes, divided into sections. McGeddon (talk) 15:02, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. If we are to have an article on this concept, a nickname for that concept is not the right name for it. MrStoofer (talk) 17:39, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Support okay the "shoey" is having a bit of publicity in Australia, but in an encyclopedia the champagne slipper and this! mean we should have an article which covers the lot and a generic title understandable to all to reflect that. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:56, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


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History
Surely this tradition must be older than 1902. The epic Poem "The tales of ensign Stål" by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, first published 1848 and dealing with the Finnish War of 1808-09, has a poem about the russian general Yakov Kulnev, where he drinks out of a lady's shoe. There is even an illustration of it in some editions of the poem. Even if that particular event might not be historical, at least is suggests that it was a known practice as early as the Napoleonic era. Should this be added to the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.241.168.119 (talk) 05:09, 9 February 2022 (UTC)