A Swedish Custom

This is not only weird, it violates what I would have thought a universal law of hospitality. 

8 comments:

E Hines said...

I couldn't read the article; it's behind a paywall, and I've already used up my free NYT articles for the month.

However.

Pickled herring? I wouldn't "share" that with an enemy, much less a stranger and especially not a friend. I like my friends.

Eric Hines

Grim said...

Funny; I could read it and I have no subscription to the NYT. The upshot is that Swedes often don't feed their children's visitors at mealtimes, but instead send the visitor to play somewhere while everyone else eats.

Anonymous said...

NYT sucks

PLEASE give us warning so we don't go there
Also there was a paywall
NYT does not deserve to be paid

You insist we leave our name and I comply, please as well warn us about NYT

Thank you

Greg

David Foster said...

Reminds me of the 1987 film 'Pelle the Conqueror', in which a man and his son (Pelle) emigrate from desperately-poor Sweden to much-better-off (but not very friendly) Denmark.

Grim said...

Greg, go somewhere else if you don't like what I do here. I don't work for you.

Grim said...

Also, if you hover your pointer over the link for a moment before you click it, most browsers will tell you where it goes. That way you can avoid ever clicking a NYT link anywhere, not just places where the hosts alter their editorial policies to please you. Figure out the technology and make it work for you instead of trying to make other people work for you.

douglas said...

I believe a lot of papers will let you read today's news stories, but not after the first day without subscription. It's an odd model, I think.

douglas said...

On the one hand, I think children shouldn't be treated as the center of the universe- on the other, I'd think feeding them is a minor courtesy that there's no good reason to discard.