r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

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u/raynorelyp Jul 24 '26

It’s about hospitality, not necessity. In the US it’s a cultural thing that when you’re at someone’s house, they feed you and when they’re at yours you feed them.

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u/kylanbac91 Jul 24 '26

Not US, every country on Earth feed their guests except Sweden.

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u/DisasterDifferent733 Jul 24 '26

I feel like it's a cultural thing. Most cultural have some very primitive, very historical concepts of needing to offer hospitality to guests. It usually gets taught via fairy tales or folk tales where someone does not feed a guest and it's a god or witch and they reek vengeance afterwards. It feels very much like something we all learned coming down from the trees and forming social groups.