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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 15:09:15 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   I saw a map the other day that just said "Guests get food" and "Guests don't get food" and the Nordic countries seemed to not feed their guests. Sounded super weird to me as a Swede.
   
   Turned out when you read further that they were talking about kids visiting each other. Aha! That's not guests, that's just kids randomly hanging out.
   
   I've joined and not joined dinners at friends' places. Normally they'd sync with the kid's parents so that no dinner would be uneaten at home because the kid came home full.
   • Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 15:13:02 UTC Sexy Moon

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     @clacke friends with a displaced german family, sometimes I would visit as a kid and then wait for my dad to pick me up, and they would have dinner in the dining room while I sat in the living room, lol
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 15:59:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sexy Moon
     @Moon Oh, so it's Germans too. Northern Germans, I'd assume. My idea of e.g. Bavarians is that they wouldn't do that.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 16:02:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • David Bremner
     @bremner Yeah the whole thing is you'd have kids randomly coming and going. The parents would look in the communion room in the basement and discover ten kids playing cards or something.
   • David Bremner (bremner@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 16:02:17 UTC David Bremner

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     @clacke My grandmother used to put a little sign on my uncle saying "Do not feed <uncle name>" when they lived in an isolated small town. At least to hear the stories it sounds quite idyllic. No cars and children in and out of most houses in the town.

   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 19:05:29 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke I don't know what age group you're talking about, but having grown up in areas where many families had more mouths than money, we usually had to leave our friends' homes before dinnertime, so we could eat at home and they could eat without feeding us. If someone's parents had made arrangements, one could stay for dinner. And on weekends, some kids could stay over at friends homes. And that meant, of course, sharing in all the family meals.
     
     I did have one friend whose family wouldn't say when dinnertime was coming. When that time came, someone would call us to the dinner table along with the family that lived there.
     
     And of course, those families who were on public support were often out of money and food around the 13th-14th of the month (paid again on the 15th) and again around the 28th of the month until the end. It was common to bring a kid home for the last few days of the month if your family had food and theirs did not.