# Your current/past go-to comfort food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738 "2011-07-12T13:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/61 "2011-07-29T21:58:00Z")
Maybe I’m the only person who didn’t already know this, but if you spread peanut butter on toast and then spread Nutella on top of that, it tastes like you’ve melted a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup on your toast. Nice. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/62 "2011-07-29T22:11:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe I’m the only person who didn’t already know this, but if you spread peanut butter on toast and then spread Nutella on top of that, it tastes like you’ve melted a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup on your toast. Nice. 🆒 That’s the only way I can eat Nutella. It’s too sweet by itself. I agree with the tomato soup / grilled cheese crowd, but I will add [pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.](http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-cookies-iii/detail.aspx)Sooo good. My Mom would make them every year around Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/63 "2011-07-29T22:48:09Z")
I’ve had the same Go-To Comfort Food all my life: scrambled eggs on toast. . ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/64 "2011-09-17T15:59:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@DCnDC](#): > > > > [Fried dace with black beans](http://www.tastyislandhawaii.com/images/fried_dace_opencan.jpg). That’s exactly what it looks like when you open the can, and yes, it tastes just as horrific as it looks, but I grew up eating it and absolutely love it. > > Okay. I looked at the picture, and I still don’t know what I was looking at. Is this some kind of smoked fish? If so, please tell me more, as I’m inexplicably fascinated by smoked canned fish. It’s a whole fish, minus guts and head, that’s been fried to death and put in a can with black beans then filled with oil and sealed. It’s exceptionally salty and greasy, with the texture of half-dried beef jerky, and it smells like death (whenever I hit the Asian grocery store and bring home a couple of cans my GF makes me eat it outside). The bones are still in it, but so cooked and sitting in oil that they’re soft and edible, like the bones in canned sardines but much bigger. Back when I was a kid my mother would feed us this over rice and I loved it, but it’s definitely an acquired taste. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/65 "2011-09-17T16:06:20Z")
For lunchtime during a rough day at work, bibimbop. For chilly, dark winter mornings before a four-hour chemistry laboratory in college, sausage biscuits and gravy. For lazy days at home, because of snow or sickness, Kraft macaroni and cheese. For post-grocery-shopping-with-a-baby reward, a cake doughnut with icing. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/66 "2011-09-17T16:26:28Z")
Since I first tasted it, probably even before 1st grade according to my parents, I crave chips and salsa when I feel bad in any way, emotionally or physically. The worse I feel, the hotter it needs to be. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/67 "2011-09-17T17:59:15Z")
Grilled cheese and tomato soup Chicken and rice soup with cornbread Baked macaroni and cheese Eggs poached in milk on toast and the milk poured over (Mom did this one for us kids on cold winter mornings) Oatmeal raisin cookies (crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside) Cinnamon toast dipped in hot cocoa (especially after being out in the snow) No wonder I have a weight problem. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![zombiebacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/76d3ee/32.png) [@zombiebacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombiebacon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/68 "2011-09-20T01:55:49Z")
bacon sandwich - white bread, bacon and yellow mustard squished together so it doesn’t fall apart when you eat it. yum… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/69 "2011-09-20T02:37:25Z")
Toasted cheese and vegemite sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/70 "2011-09-20T07:08:23Z")
Vegetarian vegetable soup. It fixes hangnails, hemmroids and heartaches. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/71 "2011-09-20T16:40:14Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Toasted cheese and vegemite sandwiches. Heard on the news today that some[muckety-muck from Australia](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/20/vegemite-gets-australian-foreign-minister-questioned-at-u-s-customs/) got stopped by US. customs because they thought his Vegemite was a dangerous substance. Then he ate some in front of them and said, “It’s good for you!” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/72 "2011-09-20T18:13:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Heard on the news today that some[muckety-muck from Australia](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/20/vegemite-gets-australian-foreign-minister-questioned-at-u-s-customs/) got stopped by US. customs because they thought his Vegemite was a dangerous substance. Then he ate some in front of them and said, “It’s good for you!” I dunno. If you were to open that tin in a closed HVAC system, I could see it being lethal. . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/73 "2011-09-20T18:51:10Z")
Pancakes made from Bisquick with Green Giant corn niblets mixed into the batter. Preferably served with sausage or bacon. I no longer eat red meat, so I go with the fake breakfast meats if I make this. Mac n cheese, but it has to be Kraft and I have to doctor it up, usually by adding eleventy other kinds of cheese to the pan. Mashed potatoes, by themselves or with a few veggies on the side. Back in the day, I would have just typed “Grandma’s roast beast, mashed potatoes & gravy, and corn. With a buttered roll.” But I gave up the meat thing a long time ago. Still, I figured out Grandma’s secret to gravy, so when I’m craving comfort foods, I’ll make it with just veggies and no cow. Turns out, it’s really all about Grandma’s gravy so I’m glad I learned how to make it before she died. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/74 "2011-09-20T19:00:00Z")
Past: PB&J Present: French Onion soup - perfect hangover cure, sick day solution or cold rainy day escape. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/75 "2011-09-21T00:59:01Z")
Past: potato-and-cheese cassarole or think cream soups w/ oyster crackers. Current: maki rolls. I had an ex who told me sushi was her comfort food, which I found odd at the time. Now I find myself in total agreement. Wasabi, rice, and soy sauce are so…meditative. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/76 "2011-09-21T01:13:58Z")
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Jif Smooth Peanut Butter. I don’t know about choosy mom’s, but JohnT chooses Jif! Today, I bought a new jar on the way to work, left it in the car, so that when I got home it was all warm and smooth… if I weren’t trying to lose weight, I would’ve finished all 18 ounces in a single sitting. OMG, was that shit good! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/77 "2011-09-29T09:30:19Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Past: PB&J > > Present: French Onion soup - perfect hangover cure, sick day solution or cold rainy day escape. I actually dreamed last night about trying to make French Onion soup. For some reason I’ve been craving it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/78 "2011-09-29T13:44:53Z")
This obviously isn’t a comfort food from my childhood, since TJ’s didn’t exist back then, but for 4-5 years now, my comfort food has been Trader Joe’s Cheese & Green Chile Tamales. Kinda like a tex-mex alt grilled cheese. 🙂 I occasionally make me a grilled cheese sandwich when I’m grilling one for my son, but I like the TJ’s tamales better. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738/79 "2011-09-29T14:54:05Z")
Big, juicy cheeseburgers. At my old place you could have the most amazing BBQ bacon cheddar burger delivered right to your home. I’m not sure I would have survived grad school without 'em. Beef in general is a comfort food for me. Mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes. Chocolate ice cream. And one that goes waaaay back to my childhood… Betty Crocker blueberry muffins. For my birthday I always brought in blueberry muffins to the class instead of cake. I still get Betty Crocker blueberry muffins on my birthday. I’ve been trying to clean up my act, so last night, when I had a hankerin’ for some comfort food, I made vegetable shepherd’s pie. It’s not the same, but it worked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-past-go-to-comfort-food/588738.md?page=3)