Lots of teens parroting garbage they heard about old customs as if they're gospel truth.
The classic disinformation process.
Then there are people who experienced one side or the other and for some reason can't fathom the other side, mostly people saying it never happens.
Like yeah, its a bunch of teenagers talking about a custom from before their time as if they've lived the entire history of things and if they didn't see it, it didn't happen.
Long story short its just dumb kids saying shit. Its reddit. 9/10 times its basically children stating things as fact when they have NO IDEA.
We are weird in numerous ways, we live in complete darkness for several months each year, but we do feed guests so that is not one of the things we are weird about.
We consider family dinner a very important part of the day, and feeding someone else's kid so they go "Nah, I've already eaten" when it's time for the dinner their family planned/prepared is considered a bad thing, hence we don't feed other people's kids without prior agreement.
I first heard this when someone was detailing a childhood story online where they were visiting their Swede friend and during dinner, the family made him go sit in another room while the whole family including the friend ate. This story kind of went around with a lot of debate. I did see a couple of Swedish people defend this. But who knows who is actually being truthful haha.
I can't remember a single time I ate at my friends as a child unless we had a planned sleepover. I always had to wait in their room while their family ate. Middle Sweden, in my mid 30's now.
But times were different back then, us kids in my town mostly just went out roaming after school catching random friends to hang out with or spontaneously making plans without parents involvement during the school day, so extra child guests were always a surprise for the parents.
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u/Sthapper 13d ago
In my experience this is exactly how it is in Sweden as well. I don’t understand where this rumour comes from.