Apparently this comes from a linguistic community.

In Mexico we do say "Provecho" or "Buen provecho" every time we eat or a waiter/waitress serves our food they usually do say provecho, different cultures. Then again, every time we greet each other here we greet with a hug or a kiss

every half civilised culture honestly has a way of signaling to other people the sentiment that goes along the lines of 'i see you're eating and i hope it's good, i shall not try to talk to you now as i see you're busy chewing'. it's unfathomable to me, coming from a culture where not saying an equivalent of 'bon appetit' is considered terribly rude, that english language doesn't include such a basic phrase on which we built our civilisation.

@guest- While I respect cultural diversity and can understand the confusion that comes from differences in cultural manners- I do find the wording here insulting. The implication being that American culture is not even “half civilized,” a sentiment found in elitism and colonialism. The American culture has at its core tenants of individualism and utility. A pre meal prayer was a common tradition for a majority of Americans at one time, but as the country became more diverse and religion became less central to the masses, such prayers became less common, especially where mixed communities or groups dined together. No common replacement emerged because it wasn’t needed. People are hungry, there is food, people eat. It’s also very common for Americans to talk or do other activities while eating, and it is assumed that one with eyes will see you are eating and are aware of the fact. If you are hungry you will eat. If you are not hungry you will not eat. Generally if everyone...

... present has their food and a place setting- that’s the signal to begin the meal. In more formal dining someone will usually serve. For smaller groups you generally, but not always, wait for everyone to be served before eating. At a very large group, one usually starts eating once those around them are served. There may or may not be a toast. Most American dining isn’t that formal though. Many people do not even eat as a family or group, and many people do not even eat st the dinner table and may eat at their work station, or at home on a couch or chair or even bed while watching tv or doing other things. American culture stems from frontier times where trappings of manners weren’t completely forgotten but largely adapted or truncated to meet the demands of the environment.

Laughing out loud because I'm from the Netherlands and understood it without the translation, 'vreet smakelijk' haha!

It's actually "Op jou merke, gereed, vreet".

That sounds hilarious and amazing

It's interesting when friends are over to say the least lol