I always thought it was something like not offering refreshments to a guest. But eating dinner in front of a guest while not inviting the guest to eat with you? Are you some kind of psychos?
Did that child bring money to pay for food? If not, why is it entitled to a free meal that someone else payed for.
Get a fucking job, you little shit.
Nuh uh, thats just an American larping a Swede, trying to spread barbarian propaganda😡
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Proof that Germanic peoples don’t have feelings or souls.
I always hear about the great hospitality of the middle east, must be all lies
Can I haz cheeseburgers?
Tbh, food was generally offered if you were at your friends house at dinner time but you were supposed to go home for dinner. If you ate at your friends place it was first agreed by your parents
This again 🙄
Well, not offering Swedish “food” to your guest seems like a nice gesture.
It was the same where I grew up, the difference being that dinner time was when you’d go home to your family to eat with them. My mom is an amazing cook, way better than my friends‘, so I was never bothered by this.
It always made me awkward when I went round someone’s house as a youngen and was ambushed into having dinner with them.
What’s worse is when they had dinner in their room rather than the dining room and they were on low means, and they insisted on feeding you and you were left with the guilt that you were eating from their limited budget so they would have to go without.
Lol i really don’t remember one way or the other. I seriously doubt any parent has refused making dinner for the friend out of principle, there must be other circumstances.
I do remember some people telling other parents explicitly not to make dinner bc the child eats special food. Those people are the worst, and i can only imagine there’s more of them these days
It’s not just the swedes, we do it here in Norway too. You either wait in homeboys room, or you gtfo and go home and eat.
Food in Sweden is so bad, they are actually doing you a favour
In Finland you got usually sent home and told to come back. Because the assumption was that our parents waited us to come to dinner too and to offer food would be hinting that my mother is a bad mom who does not feed me.
In Finland you got usually sent home and told to come back. Because the assumption was that our parents waited us to come to dinner too and to offer food would be hinting that my mother is a bad mom who does not feed me.
Same where I live. If I stayed a little bit longer at a friends place as a child, there was always this awkward moment when his mom would call him for dinne, when they ordered pizza or something, and I would stay in his room and wait until they finished
There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding this, so let me explain;
It’s normal in the Nordics for even small kids to go home from school alone, and sometimes they bring over a friend to play. The parents of the family might not even know that there is a friend over when they come home from work, and thus haven’t even prepared for one extra. This was especially true before cell phones. Neither had the parents agreed to a visit, we just brought friends over to play without them knowing. This is completely normal.
Because these vitsits were ex tempore and usually just for the afternoon it was easier for everyone to go home for dinner. In that way no parent had to stress with suddenly getting extra food, and there was no possibility of “getting indebted”, like why family X offers dinner while family Y don’t, The kids probably ate something like sandwiches when they were home alone, and that is also normal.
If the visit was agreed upon, like your parents agree that you go over to them overnight during a weekend for example, then obviously normal hospitality rules apply and you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner normally with the host family.
Tbh it’s Swedish food.
I wouldn’t want to be offered that shit either.
Idk, usually kids don’t eating much. Although i’d be afraid to feed them something allergic.
I’m dutch, i rarely ate at others, though it happend plenty at our house (parents never had a problem with it) but people usually just leave just before dinner.
Swedish? That’s a Seppo.
Well, children are like farts. You stand only yours
It is an act of courtesy that we all appreciate. Nobody wants to eat rotten fish.
My Nigerian mother thinks it’s weird brits only offer tea and biscuits (rather than a full meal) she would literally pass out and die (from hunger) in Sweden wtf 😭
Bullshit on all charges. This non european is merely envious of the bsc (big swedish cock)
What a sad existence.
I went home for dinner, wasn’t a beggar who eats from other peoples fridges.
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Wait, WHAT?
Fucking hell.
I always thought it was something like not offering refreshments to a guest. But eating dinner in front of a guest while not inviting the guest to eat with you? Are you some kind of psychos?
Did that child bring money to pay for food? If not, why is it entitled to a free meal that someone else payed for.
Get a fucking job, you little shit.
Nuh uh, thats just an American larping a Swede, trying to spread barbarian propaganda😡
Animals
Proof that Germanic peoples don’t have feelings or souls.
I always hear about the great hospitality of the middle east, must be all lies
Can I haz cheeseburgers?
Tbh, food was generally offered if you were at your friends house at dinner time but you were supposed to go home for dinner. If you ate at your friends place it was first agreed by your parents
This again 🙄
Well, not offering Swedish “food” to your guest seems like a nice gesture.
It was the same where I grew up, the difference being that dinner time was when you’d go home to your family to eat with them. My mom is an amazing cook, way better than my friends‘, so I was never bothered by this.
It always made me awkward when I went round someone’s house as a youngen and was ambushed into having dinner with them.
What’s worse is when they had dinner in their room rather than the dining room and they were on low means, and they insisted on feeding you and you were left with the guilt that you were eating from their limited budget so they would have to go without.
Lol i really don’t remember one way or the other. I seriously doubt any parent has refused making dinner for the friend out of principle, there must be other circumstances.
I do remember some people telling other parents explicitly not to make dinner bc the child eats special food. Those people are the worst, and i can only imagine there’s more of them these days
It’s not just the swedes, we do it here in Norway too. You either wait in homeboys room, or you gtfo and go home and eat.
Food in Sweden is so bad, they are actually doing you a favour
In Finland you got usually sent home and told to come back. Because the assumption was that our parents waited us to come to dinner too and to offer food would be hinting that my mother is a bad mom who does not feed me.
In Finland you got usually sent home and told to come back. Because the assumption was that our parents waited us to come to dinner too and to offer food would be hinting that my mother is a bad mom who does not feed me.
Same where I live. If I stayed a little bit longer at a friends place as a child, there was always this awkward moment when his mom would call him for dinne, when they ordered pizza or something, and I would stay in his room and wait until they finished
There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding this, so let me explain;
It’s normal in the Nordics for even small kids to go home from school alone, and sometimes they bring over a friend to play. The parents of the family might not even know that there is a friend over when they come home from work, and thus haven’t even prepared for one extra. This was especially true before cell phones. Neither had the parents agreed to a visit, we just brought friends over to play without them knowing. This is completely normal.
Because these vitsits were ex tempore and usually just for the afternoon it was easier for everyone to go home for dinner. In that way no parent had to stress with suddenly getting extra food, and there was no possibility of “getting indebted”, like why family X offers dinner while family Y don’t, The kids probably ate something like sandwiches when they were home alone, and that is also normal.
If the visit was agreed upon, like your parents agree that you go over to them overnight during a weekend for example, then obviously normal hospitality rules apply and you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner normally with the host family.
Tbh it’s Swedish food.
I wouldn’t want to be offered that shit either.
Idk, usually kids don’t eating much. Although i’d be afraid to feed them something allergic.
I’m dutch, i rarely ate at others, though it happend plenty at our house (parents never had a problem with it) but people usually just leave just before dinner.
Swedish? That’s a Seppo.
Well, children are like farts. You stand only yours
It is an act of courtesy that we all appreciate. Nobody wants to eat rotten fish.
My Nigerian mother thinks it’s weird brits only offer tea and biscuits (rather than a full meal) she would literally pass out and die (from hunger) in Sweden wtf 😭
Bullshit on all charges. This non european is merely envious of the bsc (big swedish cock)
What a sad existence.
I went home for dinner, wasn’t a beggar who eats from other peoples fridges.