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View submission: What’s the weirdest “unwritten rule” everyone just follows?
In the Netherlands: only eating one hot meal a day.
There's no cultural superstition surrounding this. It's just something everyone does.
People even ask "heb je al warm gegeten?" (have you had a hot meal yet?) when offering food, as if it'd be bad for them to have warm food more than once a day. But again, no such superstition exists. Nobody actually knows why they care.
Comment by CalderaCraven at 03/12/2024 at 17:19 UTC
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Okay, I now have a desire to know what a typical day of eating looks like in the Netherlands! 😅
I'm in the US southern states, and my meals could be 2 "cold" ones and one "hot" one, depending on what time of year and/or what I'm doing that day. However, I think it would be more accurate that I eat two meals that have been cooked per day, on average.
Comment by UnintelligentOnion at 03/12/2024 at 14:38 UTC
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Does that include toast/eggs and coffee? And leftovers for lunch you warm up?