When it comes to food and family tradition, I don't really have much. Sure, my family has a Thanksgiving meal with all of the standard items like turkey, mashed potatoes, and rolls, but its not at the same location every year or with the same people. My family has no traditional meals that have been passed down through generations or have cultural sisignificance (beyond the aforementioned Thanksgiving). We'll get together for Christmas, Easter, or any other major holidays or special occasions when called for. But the meals for those events are random, picked by whoever volunteers to cook at the time and whatever household volunteers to host.
Outside of major events, food has never held much significance as tradition. Growing up my parents would fix meals for my brothers and I, often having us all eat together. The older we got, the more that we were on our own to fix whatever we wanted to eat, or go out and buy something. Chinese, Mexican, Italian, we never really focused on any specific genre of food, but just ate what we felt like at the time. Most of what we ate would be prepared at home, take-out or restaurants were fairly uncommon. No specific food was connected to any specific traditions, and there were no traditions in how we ate the food either.
Food is what we eat to survive. Eating it can be pretty enjoyable, too. It can be used to supplement many family events. But there is no significance in the food itself or its involvement in the event. It is what it is: food.
