Been through this at the time - Swedes feed guests if they are expected to be there. Sleepovers are expected visits. If you turn up at someone's house uninvited, you probably won't be fed. You might be, depending on the family, but it's not a guarantee like if it were a sleepover.
To be fair, the original saying is "Smaken är som baken, delad(split)" which is usually shortened to skip the "split" part because everyone knows the ending anyway.
I'm Finnish, and apparently also a part of this culture of not feeding kids, at least based on some articles. Can I just say, y'all a bit confused: If a kid comes to a house for a planned sleepover, of course they get dinner at said house, and breakfast, too. (At least where I live.) I assume the origin of this myth is the case where a kid just happens to be at their friend's house during dinner time, to play - like kids here do. When I was a kid, my friends and I were in whose ever house we happened to be, and it's not like we expected to be fed in someone's house, if the parents hadn't even know we were there beforehand. Playdates are very casual, and kids come and go. Usually, we just went to our own homes during dinner time, which is usually way earlier (5 pm or so) than in many other countries, and meet up again later. And sleepovers are a separate thing.
As a Norwegian, if I got invited to a sleepover, of course I would get fed. If I just visit a friend after school there would be no reason to expect them to having planned feeding an extra person. It would be expected that I go home for dinner time, unless we have agreed otherwise
Ofcourse norwegians dont understand us swedes at all. Because noreg culture is noreg culture. Not swedish culture. There is a major difference between our countries.
Yes, always fed on sleepovers. Not getting fed would be the policy in some households when visiting after school, and I think it's mostly a signal that it's time to go home.
one thing is like people say, if its a sleepover or a planned visit you got food. But the unplanned visits or their dinner was planned and only had enough food for the family ofcourse you didnt get food and i never had a problem with that, i do the same with my kids friends now. if i dont have enough food prepped they will have to wait til they get home or they can have a sandwich or something
If you sleep over, you generally get dinner and breakfast. If you stay over to play for a few hours you are usually expected to have your own dinner time set at home
As a Swede i can honestly say that the more Rhett was overdoing his swedish the better it sounded. The pronunciation got better and better the weirder his face got 😅🤣
Alright, the feeding thing. From my childhood, the whole neighborhood was pretty much running in a big pack. One moment we were at a friends house, an hour later we were in the woods, next thing we're at my house etc. That makes it incredibly hard for all the parents to anticipate where we were, and would pretty much require all the parents to make a shitton of food every day if we would just happen to be at their house during dinner. So the obvious solution would be, everyone ate at their own place at the designated dinner-time. However, during a planned sleepover, ofcourse dinner, breakfast, snacks and all the proper accomendations were accounted for and we ate at our friends houses then. (Though I had one friend, whose parents didnt even want us to drink their water due to "expenses" xD That was a weird one..)
yeah this was a good explanation :) btw just gotta ask but was fika also always the exception where/when you grew up ? i honestly cant remember a single time when i was not invited to fika (i was usually at friends house after school because i loved 1mil away from the town/school)
If you are invited for a sleepover Swedes will feed you. It is the surprise meal times this refer to. If dinner come around and you have a friend over without making the plans ahead of time that is when they may not feed you. But if a sleepover is planned of course they will.
The "not feeding your kids friends" was more of a polite thing towards the friends moms (yes, it was almost always moms) who was planning and preparing dinner too. Sometimes my friends moms would call and ask my mom if it was ok feed me, or if it was better to wait 'til I got home. Most often it was time to send me home anyway.
Also, unless its a visit planned by both parents or the parents know each other well, giving food to small children you don't really know all that well aside from the fact that they're friends with your kids, could really be like playing russian roulette, since you could never be sure if they were allergic to something or had some other food restrictions.
How about doing Korean Thanksgiving (추석 Chuseok)? That is just around the corner and there are plenty of Korean traditions and food that go along with it. I'm sure Kalyn would be able to help as well.
It’s not really thanksgiving. That’s just the western translation and it’s inaccurate. 추석 is a mid autumn festival (this year at the end of September) where people visit their hometowns usually in the countryside. They visit and tidy ancestral graves and prepare a table of food for the ancestors (customs referred to as 성묘 and 벌초 and 차례). There are traditional dishes like 송편 (rice cakes made with jujube, nuts, and honey shaped like a moon) and 백주 (a liquor) among many others that aren’t limited to the holiday like 잡채 (a noodle dish) and fresh fruit, and 불고기 (thin marinated beef). There are also folk games they could try like 윷놀이 but this is usually played during the holiday 설날 (the lunar new year). (I’ve lived in Korea 😊 )
I think the last one makes a lot of sense. "Is it the horses birthday?" Like sarcastically saying, your feeding us too much grain (as if the meal is for the horse)
As a swede, we feed the visiting kids on sleepovers or if we go for a trio or something. It is just when we bring a friend over from school or something like that. And I think the reasoning is that often the kids go home for dinner
Also, the parents rarely REALLY know all that much about their kids friends, and they don't always know the parents of the friend, so giving food to a random very young kid might be a gamble since you can't always know for sure if they have allergies or food restrictions that they remember to mention.
As a Brit, its is VERY customary to phone home and ask if it's okay to feed their kids. It's also considered very hospitable and kind (but also very normal - it's not rare) to feed other people's kids.
I think it is almost anywhere. You might need to know if their mother was already preparing something or had something planned or if the kid has dietary restrictions etc. just makes sense
Dinner time is family time in Scandinavia, so kids usually have dinner ready and waiting for them at their own homes. (Sleepovers are obviously an exception.) It's the same in the Netherlands.
As a Swede..this is so fun too watch..🤣🤣🤣The pronanciation is quite similar accually..good job.🤣😅 I FEED MY KIDS FRIENDS ALL THE TIME AND SO DID MY MUM!😅😉 So all the Swedes dont do like that..😊
Yea my neighbors growing up were from Sweden and I never ever experienced this😂 many times I would be home alone and smell them cooking and just go over. Maybe it’s an “old fashion” trend?
Im from Sweden and i always feed my kids friends if they are in our home when its dinner time and if they have a sleep over of course the kids get breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think its wierd if you dont feed your guests.
same here, I grew up in Lund and neither my family nor anyone I have ever met denied guests food in any capacity, more to the contary... I assume it's a big troll or something?
Det hände mig också, men oftast så fick man frågan om man vill äta med dom. Och då behövde man oftast bara ringa hem och fråga ifall det var okej, annars cyklade man bara hem och åt mat hemma.
@@NightReavyn funderar på om detta kanske bara är i vissa delar av Sverige som man gör så med tanke på att det är ganska många, mig inkluderat, som inte alls känner igen denna ”tradition”
In the Netherlands its also common to expect you to go home for dinner as a kid but in the south it seems a little more common to offer someone to join for dinner. When you sleepover you do get food though haha
I have to correct Steve about the Mediterranean thing. As a south eastern European, believe me, our grandmas don't play about food. Those women won't stop feeding you untill you collapse.
As a norwegian, and the sleepover... we always fed the guest/s! Always! For after-school/weekends, when friends came home with us, we asked if they wanted dinner, or called their family if it was ok that they ate at our home, because they might have something else planned... 🇧🇻
To explain the "not feeding their guests" thing simply; it is like saying ALL Americans act like the infamous Florida men. Technically those things happen and seem to be at least somewhat cultural, but most people aren't aware and find the behaviour strange af.
Definitely do more of these traditions episodes. I am from Slovakia and we have the weirdest Easter traditions :D (other holidays too, but this is the big one)
I would rather see them do Fastnacht/Karneval on November 11th! There might be more potential to learn unknown things and also have a variety of traditions represented because there are differences depending on the region.
I dont understand who’s misleading the americans about entire countries lmao. Im danish and never experienced being denied dinner lmao. Also had a swedish gf when i was 14 and that never happened there either.
@@iamhere1523 Have you considered that the one personal tweet from which Swedengate got trending on Twitter (where mostly non-swedish people weighed in) also isn't indicative of a whole country?
As a Swede I can only say that I were never fes at my friends house, but I always fed my friends! And when my children grow up their friends will always have a plate at our table ❤️ such a wierd thing...
Im a Swede, and that happened every time I was at someone else's place or them at ours. Wasn't weird at all. If they'd ask if I wanted to, i always said no cause i knew my parents had already planned dinner with me included
@@Afsdsh yeah that's how we did even here in Pennsylvania USA too. You couldn't just feed someone else's kid and spoil their dinner that their parents were likely making them at home. Unless they were sleeping over or they called home to ask.
@@Afsdsh If you go to study or play to your friend's house, in the afternoon, is pretty normal. But If you plan a sleepover, I don't think that nobody feeds you dinner and breakfast, it is weird XD
I wonder if the "feeding guests thing" it was unique to a few families and most replies on the thread were trolling, considering that a lot of Swedes either don't know about the tradition or don't practice it
the feeing kids thing, its about being polite and not expect being getting food. You will most likely be fed if you ask politely if you can join dinner. Sleepovers, you get food if you´re sleeping over thats obvious, but not for just visits! And please include ALL SCANDINAVIANS, norwegians, danish and the finnish.
To the Swedes not giving kids dinner, I think it's almost only unplanned dinners, and keep in mind that stay at home mom's haven't been a thing for half a century, so mid week meals are often prepped in advance. Also, Sweden might have a stronger individualistic streak than even the English speaking world. We've moved a lot of the trust we used to place in the extended family and community to the state, from which we expect a lot.
As a native swede I never heard of this thing before. I and everyone I know ate at friends houses with no issues. My guess is that this is only in some parts of Sweden
@@englishatheart you didn’t put a period after moms* so your sentence reads as “moms no apostrophe in plurals.” Which makes no sense. Please fix your comment, thanks. 🥰
Im swedish and i was as baffled as you when I heard we didn't share food when we had friends over! My mom always gave them food regardless if they wanted it or not, and so did my friends parents as well. I'm a small town/farm boy so that might be why though.
Also, The kids don't get feed IF they have other dinner plans, We always ask the kids or their parents about their dinner plans because dinner is a family affair. NOONE DENIES THE KIDS FOOD UNLESS THERE IS A VERY GOOD REASON LIKE ALLERGIES OR OTHER PLANS.
Well “is it the horses birthday?” isn’t that crazy it just means the bread is sliced too thick and related to that the horse gets a bigger treat (slice of bread) because it is its birthday 😅
Yes it's not a general rule. It's probably more common to feed them than to not do it. That's not the point tho. It's still common enough to be normal, we don't think it's strange. As you can tell by their reaction they think it's very strange.
I'm from a rural town in the US and I don't think it's weird at all. Actually very normal. If a kid is just playing at your house during the day and you had them in for dinner you would be spoiling their dinner that their parents cooked them.
In Scotland we have a saying “you’d get a piece(sandwich) at anyones door meaning you’re lucky in everything. But if you are in my house at mealtime you get fed. I would never think of not feeding someone.
As a swede, watching you trying to pronounce swedish words really do put a smile on my face 😅 especially "fågelholk" which I guess you could pronounce "faugle hawlk" but yeah. Good job.
(Swedish) I don't know how it works now, but when I grew up in the 70-80ies kids were always fed, the parents would call the kids parents and ask if it was OK first though. It may be a geographical thing, I grew up in southern Stockholm.
The only friend I have that said they experienced not being fed and that it was normal for friends not to be fed lived in Örebro. Curious about what it's like in the other parts of the country. I grew up in the countryside of Västra Götaland, and we always had dinner when we visited friends or vice versa.
I would like to see more episodes like the main one! I understand if it would be infrequent as it probably takes more to produce one with the set and whatnot but I enjoyed and would like to see more :)
Hey. Hank from Sweden here and let me just say this. If I had friends over, be it sleepovers or not, my parents ALWAYS fed my friends. Always! Breakfast, lunch, dinner, the whole 9. Always!!
I really enjoyed the GMM today, definitely do more of these type of episodes. :) Also Sweden is beautiful, I visited family over there as a kid and had a wonderful time.
I totally forgot about the "is it the horse's birthday?" phrase! 😝 Oh, and as a Dane... you pronounced it pretty okay. Especially Rhett. Even though you both sounded like you've had strokes.
@@TheDanishGuyReviews Aner ikke om det er regionalt, men er ret sikker på det er en anelse gammeldags. Eller bondsk. Det er i hvertfald en rigtig bedstefar kommentar til en tyk skive brød, rug eller ej.
Okay, while I don't mind planning a meal with the neighbors kid included, however, when they come over to play and then just start searching my kitchen for food without asking, I can understand the Scandinavian mindset.
i would love to see more national holiday episodes like that! hogmanay, dias de los muertos, holi, there are some really fun festivals to learn about :D
Never heard of the food thing here in Denmark. When we reached dinner time we just usually called it a day and went home. For sleepovers of course we had dinner at the hosts place.
Im officialy submitting Brazil's Festa Junina (something like June Festival). Its kinda like our version of Midsummer, but is very adapted to brazilian culture. It has a lot of food and games, and i think it would be perfect for this format.
The food thing was never a thing when I was a kid in Denmark. If you're around in the afternoon the parents would just ask if you were staying for dinner or not so they could prepare. It was just as common to go home as it was to stay.
Reagrding the not feeding guests thing: To explain the reasoning here, it is not that food is so precious it can't be spared. You could easily get fed at a friends house. But family dinner is(was) an internal and integral part of the family, so having non family there was seen as intrusion of privacy. And the same thing with the visitor, if they were fed they would not spend their time with their family. Remember, Swedes used to be very private. This seems to not be so much of a thing any more. But I feel I need to explain it. See it from the point of the kid coming home, full, not having dinner when dinner is the first time you actually get to spend with your family.
And No cow on the ice (Ingen ko på isen) is better explained as: There's no cow on the thin ice, so nothing to worry about, since then there's no risk of any falling through. They're otherwise in perpetual danger on the ice, but now it's all peace and love and hakuna matata
That one kid that not got breakfast, is not the typical.. if you showed up unenacted, its more likely that you didnt get dinner becuse the family didnt have enough food for everyone. If it was planned, you would get food. But i think its something about our parents and there generation if you are born 80-90's.
I'll explain the concrete thing, as a swede though. If you sit on for ex. cold concrete or mountain/rock, you commonly get a uti. Im thinking that's what they got it from
i've been learning swedish for a couple of years now as a side education sort of thing. trying to decypher what they're pronouncing as someone who has a slight fundemental (but not much more than that) understanding of the language is very difficult with the pronunciation but also great practice into slang
In Scandanavian countries food is very expensive as is everything.. maybe that is a factor. My Swedish friend is always telling me when she comes over that things in our stores in the UK are half the price that they are in Sweden...
Been through this at the time - Swedes feed guests if they are expected to be there. Sleepovers are expected visits. If you turn up at someone's house uninvited, you probably won't be fed. You might be, depending on the family, but it's not a guarantee like if it were a sleepover.
To be fair, the original saying is "Smaken är som baken, delad(split)" which is usually shortened to skip the "split" part because everyone knows the ending anyway.
I had a friend who didn't know the full saying until his 20s and just assumed it meant "tastes like a$$".
@@RatedManatee 😂
@@RatedManatee im 33 and I just learnt the rest today
@@RatedManatee that's what I literally just learned now 😅
smaken är som röven, klöven (bred värmländsk dialekt)
The sentence "Se ut som en fågelholk" became more and more authentic the more Link made fun of it! xD
Damn
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yeah the pronounciation of å was perfect on a few of them and he also went southern swedish on it which surprised me
I think it actually is "se ut som ett fågelbo" the nest, because you look ruff like the twigs in the nest
Exactly! 😂
Absolutely you should explore more foreign holidays with as many natives/diplomats you can get to join you
Don't do zwarte piet
I couldn't agree more
I’m here for that 😝
Agreed
But maybe keep the really bad accents for More.
I'm Finnish, and apparently also a part of this culture of not feeding kids, at least based on some articles. Can I just say, y'all a bit confused: If a kid comes to a house for a planned sleepover, of course they get dinner at said house, and breakfast, too. (At least where I live.) I assume the origin of this myth is the case where a kid just happens to be at their friend's house during dinner time, to play - like kids here do. When I was a kid, my friends and I were in whose ever house we happened to be, and it's not like we expected to be fed in someone's house, if the parents hadn't even know we were there beforehand. Playdates are very casual, and kids come and go. Usually, we just went to our own homes during dinner time, which is usually way earlier (5 pm or so) than in many other countries, and meet up again later. And sleepovers are a separate thing.
Oh that makes sense! 😅
and sense was spoken
It's weird to me that people think that is weird because we did it the same way and I live in a rural town in the US.
You must be a bot because Finland doesn't exist !
@@hitendra_singh No, not a bot, a Mythical Beast! 😃
As a Norwegian, if I got invited to a sleepover, of course I would get fed. If I just visit a friend after school there would be no reason to expect them to having planned feeding an extra person. It would be expected that I go home for dinner time, unless we have agreed otherwise
Exactly
This.
That is the same here in Sweden.
Ofc you feed Your kids friend if he/she sleep over asa sweed 😅
Ofcourse norwegians dont understand us swedes at all.
Because noreg culture is noreg culture.
Not swedish culture.
There is a major difference between our countries.
Can all us Scandinavians please agree that if we were having a sleepover as a kid we would be fed both diner and breakfast?
Yes, always fed on sleepovers. Not getting fed would be the policy in some households when visiting after school, and I think it's mostly a signal that it's time to go home.
Yes, without a doubt you'd be fed during sleepovers. After school visits? Probably not, that's the time when one shoud head home
Yes, definitely ☺️
Technically Nordic, not Scandinavian, here, but yes, of course we were fed during sleepovers.
one thing is like people say, if its a sleepover or a planned visit you got food. But the unplanned visits or their dinner was planned and only had enough food for the family ofcourse you didnt get food and i never had a problem with that, i do the same with my kids friends now. if i dont have enough food prepped they will have to wait til they get home or they can have a sandwich or something
If you sleep over, you generally get dinner and breakfast. If you stay over to play for a few hours you are usually expected to have your own dinner time set at home
This is the truth
Yes this is correct!
As a Swede i can honestly say that the more Rhett was overdoing his swedish the better it sounded. The pronunciation got better and better the weirder his face got 😅🤣
True true, sanning.
Yes!
Speciellt när han gjorde en riktig swedish chef imitation🤣
@ Han freakade ut en stund :-)
Yes I want to say more countries’ traditions on the main episodes. For Scotland you could do the Highland Games
i would be so exited for that!
Only if they are both in kilts
@@gabiluch87 now I'm really excited haha
thisss
That would be the funniest thing, seeing them try to lift a tree trunk while dressed in kilts and playing bagpipes
Alright, the feeding thing. From my childhood, the whole neighborhood was pretty much running in a big pack. One moment we were at a friends house, an hour later we were in the woods, next thing we're at my house etc. That makes it incredibly hard for all the parents to anticipate where we were, and would pretty much require all the parents to make a shitton of food every day if we would just happen to be at their house during dinner. So the obvious solution would be, everyone ate at their own place at the designated dinner-time. However, during a planned sleepover, ofcourse dinner, breakfast, snacks and all the proper accomendations were accounted for and we ate at our friends houses then.
(Though I had one friend, whose parents didnt even want us to drink their water due to "expenses" xD That was a weird one..)
yeah this was a good explanation :)
btw just gotta ask but was fika also always the exception where/when you grew up ? i honestly cant remember a single time when i was not invited to fika (i was usually at friends house after school because i loved 1mil away from the town/school)
If you are invited for a sleepover Swedes will feed you. It is the surprise meal times this refer to. If dinner come around and you have a friend over without making the plans ahead of time that is when they may not feed you. But if a sleepover is planned of course they will.
So just make more food..? Or offer a couple of sandwhiches.
@@Steertanzerthe reason is that their parents have dinner prepared at home for them and the expectation is that they will go home soon
The "not feeding your kids friends" was more of a polite thing towards the friends moms (yes, it was almost always moms) who was planning and preparing dinner too.
Sometimes my friends moms would call and ask my mom if it was ok feed me, or if it was better to wait 'til I got home. Most often it was time to send me home anyway.
Yes same thing in my rural town in the US. Doesn't seem weird to me.
Also, unless its a visit planned by both parents or the parents know each other well, giving food to small children you don't really know all that well aside from the fact that they're friends with your kids, could really be like playing russian roulette, since you could never be sure if they were allergic to something or had some other food restrictions.
How about doing Korean Thanksgiving (추석 Chuseok)? That is just around the corner and there are plenty of Korean traditions and food that go along with it. I'm sure Kalyn would be able to help as well.
I"m intrigued, if only because it means I have an excuse to order mandu and juk from my favorite Korean restaurant here in D.C:)
It’s not really thanksgiving. That’s just the western translation and it’s inaccurate. 추석 is a mid autumn festival (this year at the end of September) where people visit their hometowns usually in the countryside. They visit and tidy ancestral graves and prepare a table of food for the ancestors (customs referred to as 성묘 and 벌초 and 차례).
There are traditional dishes like 송편 (rice cakes made with jujube, nuts, and honey shaped like a moon) and 백주 (a liquor) among many others that aren’t limited to the holiday like 잡채 (a noodle dish) and fresh fruit, and 불고기 (thin marinated beef).
There are also folk games they could try like 윷놀이 but this is usually played during the holiday 설날 (the lunar new year).
(I’ve lived in Korea 😊 )
I want to watch them play Yut Nori SO BAD now that you said this LOLOLOL rather id like to see them TRY to playa
omg i wish they would do that!! hopefully this year..
I think the last one makes a lot of sense. "Is it the horses birthday?" Like sarcastically saying, your feeding us too much grain (as if the meal is for the horse)
Yes, I got it. It’s basically saying that you are going to too much excess, like unnecessary excess to the point of it being ridiculous
As a swede, we feed the visiting kids on sleepovers or if we go for a trio or something. It is just when we bring a friend over from school or something like that. And I think the reasoning is that often the kids go home for dinner
Also, the parents rarely REALLY know all that much about their kids friends, and they don't always know the parents of the friend, so giving food to a random very young kid might be a gamble since you can't always know for sure if they have allergies or food restrictions that they remember to mention.
As a Brit, its is VERY customary to phone home and ask if it's okay to feed their kids. It's also considered very hospitable and kind (but also very normal - it's not rare) to feed other people's kids.
I think it is almost anywhere. You might need to know if their mother was already preparing something or had something planned or if the kid has dietary restrictions etc. just makes sense
Dinner time is family time in Scandinavia, so kids usually have dinner ready and waiting for them at their own homes. (Sleepovers are obviously an exception.) It's the same in the Netherlands.
As a Swede..this is so fun too watch..🤣🤣🤣The pronanciation is quite similar accually..good job.🤣😅
I FEED MY KIDS FRIENDS ALL THE TIME AND SO DID MY MUM!😅😉 So all the Swedes dont do like that..😊
Yeah, when I was with my friends their family always feed me. And my mom feed them too
Yeah I don't understand how Swedengate even gained traction? I'm Swedish and was always fed at my friends' house when growing up.
@@Scamspam It was like 50/50 when I grew up
Yea my neighbors growing up were from Sweden and I never ever experienced this😂 many times I would be home alone and smell them cooking and just go over.
Maybe it’s an “old fashion” trend?
i think the feeding culture might have changed a bit. i think it a lot more common these days.
Im from Sweden and i always feed my kids friends if they are in our home when its dinner time and if they have a sleep over of course the kids get breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think its wierd if you dont feed your guests.
same here, I grew up in Lund and neither my family nor anyone I have ever met denied guests food in any capacity, more to the contary... I assume it's a big troll or something?
Yes, as a Swede this baffled me. I always ate at friends houses as a kid
@@Aninija Nej. Det hände mig
Det hände mig också, men oftast så fick man frågan om man vill äta med dom. Och då behövde man oftast bara ringa hem och fråga ifall det var okej, annars cyklade man bara hem och åt mat hemma.
@@NightReavyn funderar på om detta kanske bara är i vissa delar av Sverige som man gör så med tanke på att det är ganska många, mig inkluderat, som inte alls känner igen denna ”tradition”
Link talking weird roasting Rhett was the funniest thing hes.ever done
Soo funny
it's funny every time he does that 😂
In the Netherlands its also common to expect you to go home for dinner as a kid but in the south it seems a little more common to offer someone to join for dinner. When you sleepover you do get food though haha
I have to correct Steve about the Mediterranean thing. As a south eastern European, believe me, our grandmas don't play about food. Those women won't stop feeding you untill you collapse.
Exactly 😂💯
Also omg your username 😂😂 bts
Same with Swedish grandmas 😂 At least when I grew up (90s)
I usually end the first one with ”some has more than others” 🤣 But mostly the whole thing is ”taste is like a butt; split”.
I love how the automatic captions just gives up when they're speaking Swedish🤣
Fun to watch as a Norwegian, Rhett sounded very Norwegian for the first pronunciation.
As a norwegian, and the sleepover... we always fed the guest/s! Always! For after-school/weekends, when friends came home with us, we asked if they wanted dinner, or called their family if it was ok that they ate at our home, because they might have something else planned... 🇧🇻
Yes!! More of the international celebrations!! I learn more on this show than I ever did in school, and it’s so much fun
To explain the "not feeding their guests" thing simply; it is like saying ALL Americans act like the infamous Florida men. Technically those things happen and seem to be at least somewhat cultural, but most people aren't aware and find the behaviour strange af.
Definitely do more of these traditions episodes. I am from Slovakia and we have the weirdest Easter traditions :D (other holidays too, but this is the big one)
You should do an octoberfest one! Since it is back after two years of covid-cancellation, that would be great!
YES! I was going to mention Oktoberfest!
I would rather see them do Fastnacht/Karneval on November 11th! There might be more potential to learn unknown things and also have a variety of traditions represented because there are differences depending on the region.
I live in Denmark and have never experienced (or heard of) not being offered food when visiting friends. :)
Præcis. Man fodrer da vel gæster.
Food, as in sandwiches, or meal as in steaks, potatoes and salad?
@@elinakeranen4499 both.
I would love to see more international traditions episodes!
I dont understand who’s misleading the americans about entire countries lmao. Im danish and never experienced being denied dinner lmao. Also had a swedish gf when i was 14 and that never happened there either.
Our school system is a joke
Have you consideres that your one personal experience is also not indicative of a whole country?
@@iamhere1523 Have you considered that the one personal tweet from which Swedengate got trending on Twitter (where mostly non-swedish people weighed in) also isn't indicative of a whole country?
@@Scamspam but it is a thing tho
@@hughmungus8110 though* Using actual words isn't hard.
I really liked today’s main episode! I definitely would love to see more international traditions interpreted on GMM!
5:10 the fact that Rhett’s pronunciation became better after he changed the way he “held his face”…
Love how he's actually closer to nailing it when he's exaggerating @5:16 xD
I'm impressed he actually pronounced "ä" the right way and not as "a" like most American tend to do.
You should do an Aussie one but that would have to be Good Mythical Evening because they probably all involve getting pissed 😂😂
I'd think the C word would be involved 😂
@@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH Oh for sure 😂
Perfect game idea! The goon bag on the Hills Hoist
As a Swede I can only say that I were never fes at my friends house, but I always fed my friends! And when my children grow up their friends will always have a plate at our table ❤️ such a wierd thing...
I've never heard of anyone here in Sweden who doesn't feed their guests. I don't know if it's like a regional thing.
Im a Swede, and that happened every time I was at someone else's place or them at ours.
Wasn't weird at all.
If they'd ask if I wanted to, i always said no cause i knew my parents had already planned dinner with me included
@@Afsdsh yeah that's how we did even here in Pennsylvania USA too. You couldn't just feed someone else's kid and spoil their dinner that their parents were likely making them at home. Unless they were sleeping over or they called home to ask.
@@Afsdsh so did you go home at that point? That’s what’s unclear
@@Afsdsh If you go to study or play to your friend's house, in the afternoon, is pretty normal. But If you plan a sleepover, I don't think that nobody feeds you dinner and breakfast, it is weird XD
Please do more of these kinda episodes😍
it was so funnn
I wonder if the "feeding guests thing" it was unique to a few families and most replies on the thread were trolling, considering that a lot of Swedes either don't know about the tradition or don't practice it
It's more common the further you go back in history, lots of young people commenting means it will skew in that direction.
11:27 as a swede this is definitely not true always gets food and snacks when i go to friends 😂
I can konform😂
It has never happend to me 😮 as a Swedish person
the feeing kids thing, its about being polite and not expect being getting food. You will most likely be fed if you ask politely if you can join dinner. Sleepovers, you get food if you´re sleeping over thats obvious, but not for just visits!
And please include ALL SCANDINAVIANS, norwegians, danish and the finnish.
When rhett really did the swedish chef version of ”smaken är som baken” it really sounded like a swedish person saying it🤣🤣🤣
To the Swedes not giving kids dinner, I think it's almost only unplanned dinners, and keep in mind that stay at home mom's haven't been a thing for half a century, so mid week meals are often prepped in advance. Also, Sweden might have a stronger individualistic streak than even the English speaking world. We've moved a lot of the trust we used to place in the extended family and community to the state, from which we expect a lot.
Moms* No apostrophe in plurals.
As a native swede I never heard of this thing before. I and everyone I know ate at friends houses with no issues. My guess is that this is only in some parts of Sweden
@@englishatheart you didn’t put a period after moms* so your sentence reads as “moms no apostrophe in plurals.” Which makes no sense. Please fix your comment, thanks. 🥰
that's the opposite of individualism
Im swedish and i was as baffled as you when I heard we didn't share food when we had friends over! My mom always gave them food regardless if they wanted it or not, and so did my friends parents as well. I'm a small town/farm boy so that might be why though.
Also, The kids don't get feed IF they have other dinner plans, We always ask the kids or their parents about their dinner plans because dinner is a family affair. NOONE DENIES THE KIDS FOOD UNLESS THERE IS A VERY GOOD REASON LIKE ALLERGIES OR OTHER PLANS.
Well “is it the horses birthday?” isn’t that crazy it just means the bread is sliced too thick and related to that the horse gets a bigger treat (slice of bread) because it is its birthday 😅
The not-feeding thing is not true. Some families might do it, but it's not a general rule.
Yes it's not a general rule. It's probably more common to feed them than to not do it. That's not the point tho. It's still common enough to be normal, we don't think it's strange. As you can tell by their reaction they think it's very strange.
I'm from a rural town in the US and I don't think it's weird at all. Actually very normal. If a kid is just playing at your house during the day and you had them in for dinner you would be spoiling their dinner that their parents cooked them.
Exactly. Seems more uncommon than common.
In Scotland we have a saying “you’d get a piece(sandwich) at anyones door meaning you’re lucky in everything. But if you are in my house at mealtime you get fed. I would never think of not feeding someone.
8:00 link actually sorta saying it right and rhett hopping in every time and being wrong is legit hilarious
I live in Denmark and I always got offered dinner when at a friends house as kids
I also haven’t heard about the horse’s birthday saying 😂
I live in Sweden, and it was the same for me. Very strange not to offer food when you're having guests.
I was hoping so badly that Gudrun would stay for this More
International episodes are the best!!! You've taught us way too much about American food and now you can experience foreign cultures! So fun ❤️❤️
So much made me laugh in this video. Best channel on TH-cam
As a swede, watching you trying to pronounce swedish words really do put a smile on my face 😅 especially "fågelholk" which I guess you could pronounce "faugle hawlk" but yeah. Good job.
Yes please do more like this. Loved this. Guy Fawkes night for the UK or May day
YEs, YES, YES. Please do more of the country tradition episodes. They are so good.
(Swedish)
I don't know how it works now, but when I grew up in the 70-80ies kids were always fed, the parents would call the kids parents and ask if it was OK first though.
It may be a geographical thing, I grew up in southern Stockholm.
The only friend I have that said they experienced not being fed and that it was normal for friends not to be fed lived in Örebro. Curious about what it's like in the other parts of the country. I grew up in the countryside of Västra Götaland, and we always had dinner when we visited friends or vice versa.
Yes more international tradition episodes!! That was so much fun to watch, maybe an episode about Ramadan next summer :)
More episodes of this! Main episode was fantastic!
I would like to see more episodes like the main one! I understand if it would be infrequent as it probably takes more to produce one with the set and whatnot but I enjoyed and would like to see more :)
Oh yes please do more of those festive episodes. For Germany please do "Schützenfest".
I love this & definitely would love to see more main episode's like that one, it was so much fun to watch lol.
Do an entire episode guessing other countries sayings. It was really fun!
Hey. Hank from Sweden here and let me just say this. If I had friends over, be it sleepovers or not, my parents ALWAYS fed my friends. Always! Breakfast, lunch, dinner, the whole 9. Always!!
Glad Midsommar my sweds 🥳
Glad midsommar to our Swedish friends!
I really enjoyed the GMM today, definitely do more of these type of episodes. :) Also Sweden is beautiful, I visited family over there as a kid and had a wonderful time.
This might be the funniest I’ve even seen Link. Dude was on fire today
Yeah mythical crew, the main episode was really well done. Please consider incorporating more of these celebrations!
I totally forgot about the "is it the horse's birthday?" phrase! 😝
Oh, and as a Dane... you pronounced it pretty okay. Especially Rhett. Even though you both sounded like you've had strokes.
Tøv en kende ... Er det et gammelt udtryk, eller bare sjællandsk? Jeg har aldrig hørt det før.
@@TheDanishGuyReviews Aner ikke om det er regionalt, men er ret sikker på det er en anelse gammeldags. Eller bondsk. Det er i hvertfald en rigtig bedstefar kommentar til en tyk skive brød, rug eller ej.
Please stop saying “like you had strokes.” It isn’t funny.
Please come over to Sweden and celebrate midsummer for real! 🙌🏼
Okay, while I don't mind planning a meal with the neighbors kid included, however, when they come over to play and then just start searching my kitchen for food without asking, I can understand the Scandinavian mindset.
i would love to see more national holiday episodes like that! hogmanay, dias de los muertos, holi, there are some really fun festivals to learn about :D
Never heard of the food thing here in Denmark. When we reached dinner time we just usually called it a day and went home.
For sleepovers of course we had dinner at the hosts place.
Would love to see you learn some Indigenous traditions / celebrations! :) Miigwech !
I enjoy this style of video! It was really cool to see a consulate from that country to give perspective
Im officialy submitting Brazil's Festa Junina (something like June Festival). Its kinda like our version of Midsummer, but is very adapted to brazilian culture. It has a lot of food and games, and i think it would be perfect for this format.
The food thing was never a thing when I was a kid in Denmark. If you're around in the afternoon the parents would just ask if you were staying for dinner or not so they could prepare. It was just as common to go home as it was to stay.
Reagrding the not feeding guests thing:
To explain the reasoning here, it is not that food is so precious it can't be spared. You could easily get fed at a friends house.
But family dinner is(was) an internal and integral part of the family, so having non family there was seen as intrusion of privacy. And the same thing with the visitor, if they were fed they would not spend their time with their family. Remember, Swedes used to be very private.
This seems to not be so much of a thing any more. But I feel I need to explain it.
See it from the point of the kid coming home, full, not having dinner when dinner is the first time you actually get to spend with your family.
I would love to see more of these cultural things with people from that country/culture. Gudrun was so great!
And No cow on the ice (Ingen ko på isen) is better explained as: There's no cow on the thin ice, so nothing to worry about, since then there's no risk of any falling through.
They're otherwise in perpetual danger on the ice, but now it's all peace and love and hakuna matata
I would love to see more international episodes! It's so fun to learn about other cultures.
Please do an episode on King's Day (Netherlands) next year, PLEASE 😍😍
I think an episode where you try to guess a place from a picture or video is also could be fun. Like an interactive version of Geo Guessr
Yes loved the main episodes! Would enjoy more like it 💙
That one kid that not got breakfast, is not the typical.. if you showed up unenacted, its more likely that you didnt get dinner becuse the family didnt have enough food for everyone. If it was planned, you would get food. But i think its something about our parents and there generation if you are born 80-90's.
I'll explain the concrete thing, as a swede though. If you sit on for ex. cold concrete or mountain/rock, you commonly get a uti. Im thinking that's what they got it from
"Smaken er som baken!" He sounded like a norwegian dubbing an american cartoon! hahaha
Love the conversational mores. Please keep em comin
Definitely more main episodes like that
do an episode on ma day/labour day/worker's day in scandinavia! here in finland it's super fun, at least as a student lol
You should do Bonhomme Carnaval! It’s a festival in Quebec , Canada 🇨🇦
i've been learning swedish for a couple of years now as a side education sort of thing. trying to decypher what they're pronouncing as someone who has a slight fundemental (but not much more than that) understanding of the language is very difficult with the pronunciation but also great practice into slang
I love how Rhett looks to the crew while applauding to egg them on to applaud as well
In Scandanavian countries food is very expensive as is everything.. maybe that is a factor. My Swedish friend is always telling me when she comes over that things in our stores in the UK are half the price that they are in Sweden...
Wow, that person has been lying to you. Food is much more expensive in the UK than in Sweden. Especially if you're comparing bigger cities.
Yes please do more of these videos these have been a new fav for me
Yes please to do more foreign holidays! I love how you guys handle it.