alt Hacker NewsI used to hear that when you finished eating ramen and you should say this as a replacement speech of "thank you". It basically means "It must be tired of you to go around to design and prepare for the meal" which implicitly implied an appreciation
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fluoridation • today at 6:05 PM
You can look it up, it's in online dictionaries.
gochisou: "feast"
sama: honorific
deshita: past conjugation of "desu", meaning "is"; thus, "was"
In other words, "[that] was a feast".
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Talking about being "tired", the phrase お疲れ様でした (otsukaresama deshita) is commonly used to express "thanks for the hard work" and it's a catch-all greeting for coworkers now, but it literally means something like "o tired one" and the character 疲 still means tired.