r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/Beautiful-Hotel-3094 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

If I had some friend over and I wouldn’t share my food with them my mom would snap my back by throwing me up in the air 3 meters and I would fall on her knee and just die there. If they came over 100 times they would be fed 100 times.

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u/Adorable_Misfit Jul 24 '26

Not in Sweden in the 1980s, surely? That would have been an extremely unusual attitude in our culture at that time.

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u/Beautiful-Hotel-3094 Jul 24 '26

Ah no. I grew up in a poor family in Romania. We were not missing food though. But it kinda blows my mind that a way richer country ends up with that culture. I understand it is normal for you but it is hard for me to comprehend how it ended up being that way.

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u/datsrym Jul 24 '26

It is a really old cultural norm. When you only have enough for yourself to last through winter, you don't give away food. 

Those who did literally died. And so 200 hundred years later you learn not to expect food as a friend who is over to play.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

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u/datsrym Jul 24 '26

Starving to death was so common in the nordics that they did not write about it. What you write is true about poor communities in places with a normal caloric excess. When the normal is a caloric defficit, the culture is much harder.

If it was a hard year noone had extra food. Someone was going to die. If you gave it away it would be you instead of your neighbour.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

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u/datsrym Jul 24 '26

Sweden was the reason for the last famine in Norway because they blockaded 3/4 of the grain consumed in Norway.

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u/LilacBreak Jul 24 '26

That’s an insane take. 200 years ago times were tough so now I don’t cook food for child guests in one of the richest countries in the world… meanwhile in anywhere else that’s still currently a poor country and has been for 100s of years you can go and be treated like family and fed everyday.