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May 31 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 VOICES | I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. What’s the problem?
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
"I was laughing when I checked Twitter and saw that #Swedengate was trending.

All this fuss because of the revelation that Swedish people don’t – as a rule – serve food to guests (particularly to other children who are playing at their houses)."
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
"As a child growing up in Gothenburg, I remember not really caring at all that I wasn’t being fed – I just continued playing and had a nice, quiet time while the other family had their dinner. It was usually just a quick “pause”."
"The Swedish thinking goes like this: the other child (or the other family) may have plans for another kind of dinner, and you wouldn’t want to ruin the routine or preparations."
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
"I don’t think it is anything to do with not wanting to feed the other child or because it costs money or anything like that, it’s more to do with tradition and wanting to eat with your own family."
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
"Times have changed, too – today, it’s a different story... But even then, it really wasn’t the “big deal” people on Twitter are making it sound like it was. Everyone did it."
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
Read the full voices piece here ⤵️
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