It seems like every culture expects guests to want to eat regardless of their circumstances, and if you refuse, you’re automatically rude and insulting.
If I offer you food and you refuse, I’m going to be quite happy. It means I get to save money and have more food to myself. I ain’t offering a second time if you say no the first time :maduro-coffee:
Sharing food is a tradition so ancient that some people argue it’s evolved straight into your psyche as proof of intrinsic altruism. Is this the commodity form in action, deterritorializing the ritual of hospitality so it can be managed more efficiently in the profane language of economics? :bern-disgust: