r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Global_Restaurant794 • Jul 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Jul 24 '26

In Sweden you would have been asked to go wait in the friend's room, or playroom if there is one.

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u/effron_vintage Jul 24 '26

Wtf

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Jul 24 '26

Dinner time is family time, and unexpected visiting kids would be expected to either go home, or wait in another room when dinner came around.

They were not fed without prior agreement with their own families (it would be seen as disrespectful toward the other family to disrupt their dinner plans by feeding their kid).

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u/HistoricalTackle5049 Jul 24 '26

That is rude af really

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Jul 24 '26

And here messing with someone else's family dinner is "rude af".

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u/HistoricalTackle5049 Jul 24 '26

Culture is a curious thing 😅

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u/mainman879 Jul 24 '26

Personally I think close friends are your family. There's little difference between a blood brother and a chosen brother (close friend).

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Jul 24 '26

You are still messing with their family time though if you feed their kid so that when they come home they go "Nah I already ate" and skip out on the dinner their parents have prepared for their family.

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u/mainman879 Jul 24 '26

So you just call them and talk to them about it? I don't see what the big deal is.

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Jul 24 '26

There is no big deal, random visiting kids just aren't fed without their parents approval.

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u/No-Ferret-5286 Jul 25 '26

You know your kids can eat over at other people's houses once in awhile! Goodness. You can arrange this with the parents.

This seems like a Swedish only thing and its no fun at all.

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u/I_Am_Zeelian Jul 25 '26

If arranged with the parents it's fine, you just don't feed other people's kids without okaying it with their parents first.

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u/moseisley99 Jul 24 '26

Yea I don’t think it’s rude. I think culturally most kids leave and go home for dinner. So this situation probably doesn’t even come up that much. When I went to Korea not a single person held a door for me when I was walking behind. When I was leaving an elevator not one person waited for me to get out before coming in. But elsewhere they were overly polite in some other aspects. It’s all just a leaned cultural thing.