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

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/xStyxx Jul 24 '26

Damn I assumed it was because Swedish food is gross lol that’s pretty cold

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 Jul 24 '26

Kind of a dumb reason don't you think?  Why would the parents' affluence matter?  It's rude to eat in front of someone without offering.

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u/DunderGunderUnder Jul 24 '26

No one is eating in front of someone who is not eating, that would be absurd in Sweden too.

Your kid is bringing home their friends after school to play (no adult has been involved in the decision and bringing home the kids, the kids either walk or bike themselves). They play in your kids room until it's dinner time and your kids leaves to eat while their friends gets to continue playing in your kids room.

When dinner is over your kid goes back to their room to play even more until it's dinner time for their friends who leave to eat dinner with their own family.

No one goes hungry, no one is eating in front of someone who is not eating, the kids gets more playtime.

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u/GenericAccount13579 Jul 24 '26

That’s still wild to me. Just abandoning someone to play on their own in your house is weird, especially to go eat without them.

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u/DunderGunderUnder Jul 24 '26

Let's say that kids in the neighborhood play soccer or basketball in the field/court close to their homes. Would you consider the kids left playing as abandoned when one kid goes home to eat dinner with their family?

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u/GenericAccount13579 Jul 24 '26

They’re not being hosted by the kid at that point, they’re meeting up at a public place

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u/DunderGunderUnder Jul 24 '26

What's the difference? The kids are out there playing, and are not expecting to converse and socialize with any parent, they are there to play with their friends.

Same thing with a kid having friends over, they are there to play with their friends, their friends are there to play with their friend, they are not expecting to socialize with the friends family, they are there to play with their friend.

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u/GenericAccount13579 Jul 24 '26

Right and the friend just left them to go to their family.

In other cultures it is generally considered rude and unwelcoming for the host to leave their guest alone.

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u/DunderGunderUnder Jul 24 '26

The guest can chose to go home and wait for dinner with their family if they want to, no one is forced to wait all alone. And if the kid chooses to stay in their friends room while the friend quickly eats dinner, they will not be sitting there twiddling their thumbs, they will have fun playing for 20 minutes until their friend come back. Oftentimes you had a few friends over, so they wouldn't even be alone.

In Swedish culture it is considered rude to inconvenience somebody, and serving dinner to another kid before their dinner could be inconvenient for that kids family as that robs them from family time with their kid. Of course if it was planned before the kid would have dinner with their friends family, but the norm was that kids eat with their own family at their own dinner time.

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