You are right, of course you can use those phrases, but there are phrases that are used specifically to thank your host after a meal | Arab use these phrases for thanking the host or anyone who offers you a meal or any food for that matter, especially if they have made the food themselves |
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In a Yemeni and Egyptian dialects it would be:• | When your hosts offers you perfume you are supposed to put some on and say:• But in dialects there are variants:• Bonus: when some one offers you a perfume: It is a tradition for the host to offer perfume after a meal to the guests |
There are old poems mentioning this tradition, which goes back to The Abbasid Caliphate 750 CE.
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