# Comfort food. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729 "2005-07-09T06:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/41 "2005-07-10T16:45:52Z")
Meatloaf, preferably with a crispy, sticky crust of ketchup Macaroni and cheese from the box Spaghetti and marinara sauce Ramen noodles New York style pizza-by-the-slice ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/42 "2005-07-10T17:23:38Z")
-Meat loaf -Made-from-scratch mashed potatoes -Creamed peas The above meal MUST be eaten with a spoon to make it even more comfort-y. I’ll put my blues on hold, just to have the time to prepare all of the above. Definitely worth the wait, and the time and energy expended. Can’t even wait that long? Bowl of onion dip, and a bag of Doritos™ Either of these meals can also be applicable, in case I’m ever on death row and the padre’s lookin’ at me. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/43 "2005-07-10T18:06:16Z")
Porcupines is what Mom called them. Beef meatballs with rice in them, cooked in tomato soup. I made them last year while pregnant, and they got gobbled up. I hadn’t had them in the 20 years previous, and they were just as good as I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/44 "2005-07-10T18:16:34Z")
Vegemite sandwiches (white bread). Chocolate milk. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/45 "2005-07-10T18:27:40Z")
Actually, I just reminded myself of something I’ve been meaning to ask here, so I’ll hijack this thread (ir’s only one of **kambuckta** ’s anyway 😃 ): A couple of years back, I went down to the Vietnamese bakery for a pork roll for lunch at work, and picked up a carton of chocolate milk while I was there (OAK brand - the best). When I got back, my English mate Doug commented that Australians have a fetish for flavoured milk. “Whaddaya mean?”, I asked. “Well, in the UK, if you go into a shop, there might be one row of flavoured milk in the fridge. Here, you’ve got shelves and shelved devoted to it.” So I’m wondering how much flavoured milk is consumed in other places. It’s true that the average milkbar, takeaway shop, or corner store will have five or six different flavours (maybe chocolate, caramel, iced coffee, strawberry, vanilla malt, even banana…), and these will all be represented in different sized cartons and bottles, and there will often be more than one brand. It’s nearly up there with soft drink. Is Australia unusual in that? My friend insisted we were. Would you be able to buy chocolate milk in a Vietnamese bakery in LA, say? It’s ubiquitous here. Anyway, it’s a definite comfort food for me. Only chocolate though - I don’t care much for the other flavours, nor do I enjoy plain milk. ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/46 "2005-07-10T20:22:50Z")
> [@cherry](#): > > My comfort food is butter chicken with naan. I eat it while it’s cooking, then get out the naan and start dipping into the sauce. Homemade Butter Chicken?? Can I have the recipe?!?! My favorite is homemade mashed potatos with butter and sour cream with homemade beef gravy. Oh man. I would eat 2 potatoes worth at least. English Muffin, perfectly toasted with butter, peanut butter and a dollop of jam in the middle. With a glass of milk. Chicken and Dumplins’ – extra dumplins’! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/47 "2005-07-10T22:06:01Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > It’s true that the **average milkbar** , takeaway shop, or corner store will have five or six different flavours (maybe chocolate, caramel, iced coffee, strawberry, vanilla malt, even banana…), and these will all be represented in different sized cartons and bottles, and there will often be more than one brand. It’s nearly up there with soft drink. Is Australia unusual in that? (emphasis added) I dunno, but there’s no such thing as an “average milkbar” here in the Southern US, and I’ve never seen one up north or out west either. We don’t have milkbars except as very rare oddities. So I’d say, yeah, y’all got a fetish :). Daniel ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/48 "2005-07-11T06:09:50Z")
> [@blackhobyah](#): > > Kambuckta, just for you … not quite chocolate soup, but comfort food nonetheless. > > Take a bit more than a mugful of milk (I like organic, unhomogenised), a tablespoon of good quality Dutch cocoa (no Cadbury’s no, no), two squares (or four, or more) Lindt dark 70 or 85 % chocolate, a teaspoon of sugar, and some cream. > > Gently heat the milk in a saucepan, add the cocoa and sugar and stir til dissolved, add the chocolate and allow to melt, stirring constantly. Now bring the chocolate mixture to the point where the milk bubbles up the side, take off the heat and allow the bubbles to subside. Do this a couple more times until the mixture has thickened a little. You could even thicken it a bit more with a little cornflour dissolved in water, in the Italian manner. > > Then pour into a mug, top with some cream, and perhaps a little ground cinnamon. > > Sip slowly and feel the world set itself to rights. Oh YEAH. I’ve dissolved out of my blues, and into a state of complete orgasmic oblivion just _reading_ this post…I’ll be back later, when I’ve actually drunk some. It sounds superb…😛 Mmmmmmmmmm. Hic. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/49 "2005-07-11T06:31:01Z")
For me, it’s pudding. Any kind really, but preferably chocolate. Butterscotch at a pinch. For non-savory, it would have to be Toad-in-the-Hole. Or stew. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/50 "2005-07-11T06:39:12Z")
Savoury: baked beans on toast Sweet: chocolate (milk chocolate only - with or without nuts) ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/51 "2005-07-11T06:54:41Z")
My comfort food: Dreyer’s Berry Rainbow Sherbet. Drinks: A purple cow from the Purple Cow nearby. When the days are chillier, I like a nice cup of coffee (got my Tim’s from home!) or hot chocolate… in Canada, I remember I used to get big tins of a kind called “After Eight”, which was hot chocolate flavoured like those After Eight mints - heavenly! ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/52 "2005-07-12T07:03:01Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > Vegemite sandwiches (white bread). God almighty, you know how to kick yourself when you’re down. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729/53 "2005-07-12T15:49:21Z")
> [@EarthStone777](#): > > Before I was diagnosed Diabetic II, my comfort food was: > > A bag of Chips Ahoy cookies > A bag of Oreo cookies > A quart of whole milk > […] > Nowadays, I don’t think I have a comfort food. I feel your pain, **EarthStone**. But I also recognize that part of the reason I became T2D was that comfort food usually _was_ a bag of this or a quart of that. If a person wants to put on 60 lbs in 10 years, that’s an excellent way to do it. Have you checked out Jell-O Sugar Free Instant Pudding? I find it awfully comforting, and only 6-8g carbs per serving. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food/311729.md?page=2)