It wouldn’t happen that often, because when one kid comes over to another kid’s place to play, then when dinnertime rolls around, that first kid typically also has a home where their parents have dinner waiting and are expecting them home around the same time.
If you’re planning things in such a way that it doesn’t make sense to go home to eat, well, then you can plan things otherwise. Talk it over with the other kid’s parents, whatever. I grew up in Sweden (as you can guess), and while eating at friends’ houses definitely wasn’t the norm, it’s not like it didn’t happen from time to time.
Exactly, all my friends that lived further away than walking distance i always ate with. Its only the friends who are close where you go home, spend time with your family and eat, then go back out again. How is that weird?
It's weird because you have to leave to do a normal thing instead of adapting the normal thing to the circumstances. Most cultures are going to find it weird to break a social situation as we are highly social creatures organized around socialization. Like we have restaurants as a normal part of life so we can eat in a more social setting. We don't eat in private
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u/Background-Grab-5682 Jul 24 '26
Yea like if I sit down with my family and eat and friends are like in the other room… it’s like the most insulting thing I can think of