'Come with your own': peculiarities of a feast in the USA incomprehensible to our immigrants
'26.02.2021'
Source: Kuzminatravel on Yandex Zen
For 3 years of his life in the USA, the author of the Kuzminatravel channel on Yandex Zen I visited a lot of guests at all kinds of celebrations, birthdays and just feasts. Some of the features seemed to her very convenient, and the author could not get used to some. Further - from the first person.
Come with your
Often, gathering for a feast with friends, the inviting party takes on one dish, and the rest is distributed among the invited guests. For the first time, when I was invited to such a feast, they asked what I would bring. This surprised me a lot.
However, this is normal for Americans. Even when I invited American friends to visit, naturally, without asking me to bring anything with me, everyone always came with some kind of dish.
It happens even more interesting: you come, but nothing is ready for the table, and all the guests are cooking together. An interesting situation has developed with this feature as well. I was visiting friends for Thanksgiving, and their American friend came with several bags of groceries. After greeting everyone, she immediately went to the kitchen to cook what she had in mind, while telling what kind of yummy it would be as a result.
Microwave food
Often housewives, collecting guests, do not bother with cooking. They just buy semi-finished products and warm them up in the microwave before the guests arrive.
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This moment also struck me: not a single self-respecting hostess would buy store semi-finished products for a feast. Delivery from the restaurant - yes, but frozen food for the microwave is already overkill.
Buffet table
Often they organize a small table with various snacks and a separate one with drinks. Guests do not sit at the table, but only come up, serve themselves snacks and eat on the couch or even while standing.
Do not pour
It is not customary to take care of the guests and monitor the filling of the glasses, especially insisting on adding more. Everyone pours himself. Or you need to ask.
The birthday boy does not pay
When a birthday is celebrated in a bar, the birthday person does not pay. Each of the guests pays for himself, and the birthday boy's share is paid in a club. Therefore, many people like to celebrate birthdays in bars. I have never had the nerve to celebrate my birthday in this way.
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Wish List for the holidays
This tradition has nothing to do with the feast, but I just really liked it, so I can't help but mention it. A birthday boy on a large marketplace (usually Amazon or eBay) creates a list of what he wants and shares this list with friends. When someone chooses what to buy, this gift option becomes unavailable to others. If only expensive presents remain, you can buy a gift certificate from the store for the amount that is comfortable. So the birthday person gets only what he needs and “double” gifts are excluded.
Original column published on the blog. Kuzminatravel on Yandex Zen
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