I like that custom! (cooking on the grill!)
Hahahaha...you’re lucky! One of our “customs” was eating my mom’s homemade cranberry relish! (made with real cranberries, orange peel, etc)
As a kid, I could eat about a teaspoon of it...I would have rather had the crappy jellied stuff, it was like dessert to a picky eater like me.
We joked about it, and my mom over the years made less and less of it, until she stopped making it altogether.
I think about that homemade cranberry relish every Thanksgiving-I speculate that it might well appeal to my older adult palate better now, and that brings a smile to my face.
My mom never fed us as kids-she fed us as if we were adults, and she fed us a lot of adult things. She was a legendary cook...:)
It is a great custom! Lots of fun, too.
My wife makes homemade cranberry relish like you described and it is wonderful. Our kids like it, but they are now 30 to 34 and have shifted to more adult tastes.