Each society's culture is transmitted to children through eating with the family, a setting in which individual personalities develop, kinship obligations emerge, and the customs of the group are reinforced. Children learn at mealtimes to express a formal reverence for food through the custom of saying grace, as in what Christians know as the Lord's Prayer ("Give us this day our daily bread"), and they become acquainted with the regulations governing what their society considers edible. For many African children, this amounts to learning that a meal is not a meal unless it includes porridge. Europeans are brought up to feel much the same way about bread, and many North Americans genuinely believe that dinner is not really dinner without meat.