"Poftă bună" (same as Bon Appetit) in Romanian and at the end of the meal "Să vă fie de bine", which I have no idea how to translate. Something along the lines of "may the food feed you well".

In English I don't really say much when I eat with family or with friends you just eat lol. Never payed attention what my parents or other family members say in Spanish before eating. Usually we gather around the table and say a quick prayer in Spanish like "Gracias Dios por la comida que no as dado". (Thanks God for the food you have given us) But that's only with family not much with friends 🙂

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In German it's "guten Appetit"

That's formal, though.

"Guten Hunger" or just "Mahlzeit" are more common over here.

hmmm where I´m from "Mahlzeit" is used as a hello during the time from12-14pm
and we either use "guten Apetit" or (waaay more common) "`n gute´"
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In finland we doesnt really say anythin before we eat =P

"Kiitos ruoasta."
Although it's not that common to thank family members or
your friends.

I dont know what the finns say since Im Fin/swe. =P
And we only say "tack för maten" after we have eaten. =3

My family doesn't say anything before we eat because all we think about is stuffing our face 🙂

If I'm eating with people inclined to say grace, I'll join them. If not, I'll just politely comment on how good the food looks, whether it actually does or not.

If I'm by myself...

OM NOM NOM NOM

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In my culture;

we prance around in our underwear while doing the hokey pokey, the first one that screws up has to go eat with the hobos around the corner. D:

and the rest of us laugh happily ever after.

nothin...jus sit eat and talk bout sports and stuff like tht wit my family/friends

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I don't know if anyone said anything for the Chinese.

These are just some of the phrases I've heard.

開動了- kai dong le <-- Mandarin. Used often in Chinese mangas to replace Itadakimasu
大家食飯 - dai ga sik fan <-- Cantonese. It means "Everyone eat" literally. Usually it's deemed polite for a kid to "tell" his/her elders to eat before they actually start eating.
我唔客氣啦- ngo ng hak he la <-- Cantonese. It means "I'm not going to be polite" literally (sorta). Basically said when you eat before others start eating.

請慢用 <-- I've seen people use this as an example. This isn't something that a person eating would say perse, but something a waitress/waiter would say. Just not someone who is partaking in the action of eating.

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In my culture;

we prance around in our underwear while doing the hokey pokey, the first one that screws up has to go eat with the hobos around the corner. D:

and the rest of us laugh happily ever after.

That's one crazy culture you've got there!

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i dont think any Greek wrote it so, in Greece we say Καλη ορεξη-Kali orexi

Action speaks louder than words. I wolf down on my meals immediately to show that I'm going to "start my meal". =D

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I'm Chilean and speak spanish, so i say " Buen provecho ", " A comerrr " or if the food looks ugly i sometimes just cry ... ahahaha nah jk

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In my culture;

we prance around in our underwear while doing the hokey pokey, the first one that screws up has to go eat with the hobos around the corner. D:

and the rest of us laugh happily ever after.

That's one sexy culture you've got there!

Fixed for you.

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In Italian:

"Buon appettito" is in general before eating something.
"Buon pranzo" for lunch.
"Buona cena" for dinner.

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