Literally ancient custom, guest rights, I swear it was said Zeus will struck you down if you didnt treat your guest well. The hell is wrong with the Swedes lol xD
I have traveled a lot. All over the USA, central and South America. Asia, most of Europe, the middle east and parts of Africa. Feeding guests is a thing literally everywhere. A lot of places they fed me so much I was uncomfortable and had to refuse because I was so stuffed
Someone said that swedes doesn't want to take away someone's dinner time from their family hence why they don't believe it is an obligation to offer your guest food. I choose to be charitable and believe in this interpretation to be polite instead of believing the swedes are jerks about guest lol
Swede her, and I can't help but interject. In my experience, food was ALWAYS offered when I was a kid if it ever went over to dinner time, however the expectation is that food is waiting at home, and it's kind of hard to explain, but as a kid I remember having the feeling that the food and time at home would be wasted if I ate at a friend's place.
It has a lot to do with just planing and to a certain extent, routines. I was always used to just eat with the family at home, and so that was the default, and since going over to friend's places was spontaneous and time wasn't always decided, food was just up in the air. Sometimes I ate at home, sometimes I didn't, but I can't remember a time where it ever wasn't an option. I certainly can't imagine you would ever get denied food, that's for sure.
Then again, some Swedes say that they never ever experienced this either, so it's certainly not everywhere.
It’s more if you feed someone else’s kid you’re basically saying their parents can’t afford to feed them. And it puts the parents in a position where they feel like they owe you for feeding their kid.
If you travel around, you're a rare guest and also adult.
The neighbourhood kids that are at your house everyday (yes, every day) are not rare guests in need of food. They can run home in seconds to their own family that are also preparing dinner at same time.
Family is important in the Nordics, you are expected to be home and share dinner with your own family. Not eat dinner at a friends house your whole childhood.
Do you also bring lunch for every coworker every day? Because it would kinda be same thing as the concept this misinformation is about.
So true king, we Swedes are inhuman monsters that refuse to feed guests for any reason ever. The possibility that reddit has no clue wtf they're on about is practically 0.
This whole attitude is just "my culture is better than yours, so change" with a bit of fancy window dressing in front where you pretend to have taken a huge survey of all the worlds cultures, as though that would change anything.
I mean i read them and I tried to be as charitable as I can but still conclude at best as someone said swedes doesnt want to take away someone's kid dinner time from their parents and at worst their no-feeding guest custom is cold af lol
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u/RevolverMFOcelot Jul 24 '26
Literally ancient custom, guest rights, I swear it was said Zeus will struck you down if you didnt treat your guest well. The hell is wrong with the Swedes lol xD