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The Grand Meal Tradition Should Not Be Ignored By Toddlers, Children, and Teens
worldofdrakan
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Okay, why is the Grand Meal tradition ignored by toddlers, children, and teens? Is it because the meal has to be cooked? If that's the case, then that makes no sense. The tradition doesn't complete exclusively by cooking the meal. It also completes upon eating a serving of the meal, which is a thing that Sims of ALL ages can do. With that in mind, it really doesn't make any sense that toddlers, children, and teens would ignore this tradition. Gurus, I would greatly suggest making the Grand Meal a tradition for all ages.
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Sure, Sims is a little bit different, but... I see why it is what it is.
So for everyone saying "Eh, idk", there actually *are* toddlers who love the Grand Meal tradition. All others ignore it apparently because of their age. Some children ignore it because they are mean. Others all ignore it because they are children. It's extremely arbitrary, and doesn't seem intentional. If it is intentional, it doesn't seem reasonable.
Children and teens are also able to fulfill the "Grilling" tradition by eating grilled food, which makes me think even more that this is an error. And as for whether a particular age group would care irl about Grand Meals, that's the difference between participating in a tradition and loving it. If you really want to nitpick, we can go through all the traditions and decide which ones *realistically* each age group would care about. But this is built into the game already. Some sims ignore traditions because of their traits (mean, snob, etc.), but Grand Meal in particular being ignored--except when it's not--by all sub-adult age groups seems like an oversight.
I wish that the baking tradition applied to eating bake goods as well as the actual baking, just like with the Grand Meal, because I added that to my Thanksgiving so sims got something sweet after their big meal, but of course they get the yellow tick only if they actually bake something.
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I'm not entirely sure about that. Sim Guru Nick just posted on a bug reports thread on the issue. He says that this toddlers, children, and teens ignoring the tradition is apparently by design. At the same token, upon looking at SimsVIP's rundown of the traditions, toddlers also ignore the grilling tradition for some reason, even though it's fully capable of completing simply by eating grilled food.
> Crisis averted! OP is mistaken. There are some toddlers, children, and teens who do like the Grand Meal tradition which means the results are based upon traits which is by design. False alarm.
This was already stated. The only minors who participate *love* the tradition. ALL the rest of them ignore it because of their age or because of a trait like mean. There's no middle ground. It's an arbitrary thing that makes no sense. If one type of toddler/child/teen loves a tradition, it makes no sense that all the rest can't participate at all because of their age. They should just be neutral participants.
Everyone can eat food. It makes sense for sims with the specific characteristics (mean, etc.) to ignore a tradition like this, but it makes no sense that kids are capable of *participating* in the grilling tradition--again, just eating food, not saying they have to *love* the tradition--but they can't participate in Grand Meal because of their age, while others specifically ignore it because of traits. It's just bizarre.
A lot of people seem to only be associating Grand Meal with American Thanksgiving. It's just a big special meal. It's food. People of all ages like when there's extra special holiday food. Except when they don't. Some will love it for reasons. Everyone should be able to participate in it regardless, because everyone eats.
I remember my sisters and I used to LOVE having christmas dinner, because it was something special, that we didn't have very often. Yes, of course we were impatient, but that had nothing to do with the food. More with the presents we knew were waiting for us after dinner (we celebrate and exchange presents christmas eve). There are traditionally not many such occasions in our country. We have christmas, new years and easter, and that's basically it. There is usually no special grand meal associated with easter, even.
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