Thanks for the confirmation. As I alluded to I didn't know how universal the experience was.

Maybe you can give me an insight into the American thinking around eating, dinner, guests, because I only see what people do on the outside. I don't know what the thougth process is.

I remember when I was in the US how often we ate in the car, or simply went out to eat. It felt like a very different food culture on many levels. Like the whole thing of sitting around a table and eating seems more pronounced in much of Europe.

But I know we have some profound difference. I remember talking to a Frenchmen about hiking. Like we take a sunday stroll in Norway, walk to a cabin, mountains or whatever. We may bring a food pack, chocolate or orange.

But the Frenchman remarked on how the eating is the center of the whole day out for the French. It is a picknick. We don't really do picknick. Like they would bring a basket with all sorts of good food and really sit and enjoy that food. Us Norwegians are more like snacking in comparison.

Yet, there is still that sense that food should be eaten together with people.