I guess for me it is ice cream. I like it ok but I rarely eat it. If it is served as a dessert by someone I will have a few spoons of it. I almost never buy it though.
Guacamole too but while I do like it for some reason it does not like me so I avoid it.
(I’ll make a slight exception for waffles if they are made with flavorful ingredients like cornmeal, and they are very crunchy. But once you start tinkering with the ingredients, I don’t think they count as comfort food any more.)
I love some pasta, too. Spaghetti and meatballs (my meatballs) I’m all in. Lasagna I wil be there, but stuffed shells don’t do it for me. My daughter loves them all, but would rather another pasta besides spaghetti.
What I don’t (do not) understand about a “comfort” food is Pie.
My family doesn’t think its dessert without pie. A crust, a filling, a topping. In any configuration.
There’s been long discussions about it and the reason it’s so. Because they do agree they prefer pie to any other dessert.
The consensus (other than my great culinary skills ) is, its comforting. So a “comfort” food.
Thank you! I always feel like a Martian when everyone starts rhapsodizing about lumps of usually-mass-produced pasta with melted “cheese-like substance” over it.
My kids always wanted the Kraft stuff.
Nowadays, they’ll even order Mac’n’Cheese Pizza!
Thank God I have health and weight loss as an excuse now… I mean, white bread and cheese? How is that doing my body any good?
Now, waffles aren’t much better, but they’re comfort food to me. Ooh, just figured out why! My mom was gone sometimes when we were little, and all my dad could make was waffles, chocolate malts and PB&J. So those are my biggies.
And if it’s not comforting to me, then it’s not a comfort food. So, no, there are no comfort foods that don’t “do it” for me.
But don’t mind me. I’m the guy who considers that the reason breakfast is the most important meal of the day is because if one never breaks one’s fast, one starves to death.