Let the Food Keep Us Quiet

After praying, he said something along the lines of quote, let us dig and let the food keep us quiet. My understanding of this has always been that you shouldn't speak with food in your mouth or be extremely loud at the table. I wouldn't say it's a cultural thing though. It was all in quotes, by the way. After a few minutes, I was too weirded out and asked about their day and how nice it was that they invited me there. And his mother did the hush thing, so awkward. So I thanked them for the food and left to the hotel, me and my boyfriend stayed out.