The guest should break off a piece of bread, salt it and eat it. This symbolical gesture means that the person is in friendly relation with the greeting person and is ready to eat with him the ‘barrel of salt’, that means to share mischief and worries. In the country beliefs, if greeted with bread and salt you should not eat it, you would inexcusably offend the host.

The bride and groom are greeted with bread and salt after marrying to this day. When they appear in the wedding hall they are greeted by their parents with bread and salt, and the bride can take what she likes of ‘The bread, the salt or the groom?’. The proper answer is ‘The bread, the salt and the groom to work for it.’ The piece of bread has to be dipped in the salt and further they have to kiss their parents.