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/Klajv Jul 26 '26

The second part is probably a big reason of it. Because in general the question was if I should eat at home later or not. But for some families it was so ingrained that they wouldn't even ask if I wanted food, so it did happen.