Hoodie or not?

In Sweden there is a discussion if kids at school can have hoodie on during
class. Some schools say no others yes. The hoodie lovers then say that Muslim girls wear scarfs. The hoodie haters say you can see the face of the girl but not the face of a person with a hoodie especially when they bow their heads.
According to be well behaved - no hoodie or hat or cap indoors.
Iit is not good for your skin either.

That would be very bad manners, much worse than a hoodie at the dinner table!

Sideways vision can be reduced which could lead to accidents in the street. A few weeks ago I say a young guy with a neckbeard riding a bicycle on the pavement (sidewalk), with a hoodie up, while looking at his phone. He rode into a lamp post, fell off his bike and smashed his phone.

Just curious.
How do you handle the situration outside of your home, say hospital, hotel etc where utensils are used for everything?

it's not unusual here for people to put together snacks/meals for themselves when at friends/family members' homes

it's pretty standard to tell people where things are in the kitchen the first time they visit and then to let them know they are free to prepare things as they need

if someone wants/needs something to eat, I don't expect them to wait til I am hungry - unless they're over for a specific meal - and even then they could make themselves a snack if things were getting desperate

what?

That was the explanaion which was from some schools.
You use a hoodie outdoors to keep your head warm, At least what it is supposed to do. Then wearing it indoors your head builts up heat which can develope some skin problems on your head.
Do not ask me why Muslim girls do not get skinproblems with a scarf.
Another argument was that during class Muslim girls behave better than boys wearing hoodies.
Guess it is not the hoodie but the behavior in general. And these kids have to learn to behave. First step is to take off the hoodie.

Do you really mean that when someone comes over to your house for a few hours you show them where everything is and then you let them make snacks for themselves?
I have never ever experienced anything like that.
If someone just come over I make the snacks
If they are invited I make the breakfast, lunch or dinner.
If they come and spend a week end. I make all the meals with some help.
After all I plan I want to know what is in the kitchen.
If people came to stay for several days or weeks I still do the cooking or I do it one day or the others the next day or we do it together.

That's not a problem; the utensils, plates etc have been washed properly (we hope!). It's not a ritual objection like halal or kosher, just a preference that our pans are not used for cooking meat which can leave grease and make a smell. Anyhow, if a guest brought some ham or salami and wanted to cut it up and eat it we wouldn't mind that.

yes

that's what I learned from my parents and my family in Germany

it's also done quite commonly here

I have never experienced it in Germany where I have lived,nor in any Scandinavian country where I have lived,nor in Switzerland or USA or GB.

One thing that bugs me in US TV dramas is where someone goes to a fridge and gets a large container of juice or milk, removes the cap, and then puts the spout to their lips and takes a drink. Surely the remaining liquid is going to be contaminated with their saliva? Is this normal? Does everyone in the house have their own separate container? After someone had done that I would not want to consume what was left.

We always have orange juice in the frog, but we have never had the experience where a visitor helped themselves to anything in or out of the frog.

In my experience, you would be asking for trouble to do that, even in the bosom of one's family.

The couple from across the street were out walking their almost toddler. The mother was dressed very stylishly (almost) in black, and wearing large, black-framed sunglasses . . . and bright, safety orange sneakers. If she had come to our house, i'd have made take those damned shoes off!

I barely can stand to drink after myself even.

It´s TV. I have never seen it in private houses - nor what I see on TV over here.
People go to the fridge take out a yoghurt and eat with one finger and puts it back.
It´s TV people who want to be smart...not normal people.

...and would ask her to take off those large sun-glasses.

Gross! God knows where that finger has been!

On cooking in people's houses, I have quite a number of times, usually to help the cook, but sometimes to make a meal for my friends, upon request. They have known me well and like my cooking. When I've stayed over at their places and we do separate things over several days, they will have already shown me the refrigerator**, but I don't remember using it unless they were there in the kitchen too, us working together, or in the case of my doing the cooking - say, making linguine with clam and anchovy sauce. It would have been myself who brought the ingredients, including the chile flakes. Yeah, I'd use their salt and pepper, and water for the pasta cooking.

Tes doesn't have to be there. Several of my friends, female and male, have been great cooks, and I've learned a lot from them. Who but Bonnie taught me to make gnocchi? Who but Nancy taught me to make a bread that was from a Nancy Silverton (La Brea Bakery) recipe? Who but my friend David taught us to make the world's best bruschetta (on the outdoor grill, it makes me salivate to remember).

I guess we live in our own sets of food worlds.

Not to mention bacterial worlds.


** edit - in both of my cousin's houses, I was welcome to make my own eggs and toast in the morning. They didn't worry about my eating stuff they were planning for dinner.