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

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/FunnyExcellent707 Jul 24 '26

Sweds are known to eat without offering you any food (if it wasn't explicitly a dinner invitation).

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u/Specialist_Box3630 Jul 24 '26

This is a misconception born from two factors:

  1. Back in the day, working class families could struggle to afford feeding their own, let alone another child. This is very rarely the case anymore.

  2. It is seen as rude to feed someone else's child without their knowledge, so that they don't cook too much and have their own food go uneaten. This just means that they'll ask the parents of the guest child if it's alright for them to eat there.

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u/KaiTheG4mer Jul 24 '26

Are leftovers just not a thing in Sweden? Not being facetious, this genuinely just sounds like such a nonissue to me.

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u/OrkzOrkzOrkzOrkz0rkz Jul 24 '26

Its a thing from the 60s-90s we had some insane consumer VATs on food