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"Be my guest, but don't touch the food!"

• philwelch 4y ago
  There's a lot of talk on Twitter the last couple of days about how this is apparently a cultural norm for house guests in Nordic countries!
  • na85 4y ago
    I mean if an electrician or whatever came into my house to do a job, and ate my food without being offered it, I'd consider that extremely rude.
    • Nextgrid 4y ago
      Scale and context matters. The loss of a single food item in your own house has a much larger impact than the loss of a single food item in a kitchen stocked to feed dozens of employees - in the former case, your lunch disappeared but in the latter case there's just one less pack of crisps in a box of 100 that nobody will even notice and the positive impact of that (in terms of morale, especially for regular contractors) outweighs the 50c the pack of crisps costs.
  • cgriswald 4y ago
    For the curious, here is the reddit thread and comment that seems to have started it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uxz68j/what_is_the_weirdest_thing_you_had_to_do_at/ia1ji6z/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uxz68j/what_is_t... > @Wowimatard > I remember going to my swedish friends house. > And while we were playing in his room, his mom yelled that dinner was ready. And check this. He told me to WAIT in his room while they ate. > That shit was fucking wild.
    • klipt 4y ago
      So what do Swedish guests do - bring their own food to others' houses, or just always leave before mealtime?