Crumpets are comforting. What food do you find comforting?!
Crumpets are comforting. What food do you find comforting?
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An interesting question. I adore crumpets!
Looking at the answers so far contributed, the majority of the foods stated are all high in fat.
Fats are very satisfying - they take the longest time to digest totally, yet they provide immediate hits, inasmuch as that they are tasty, and some of their constituents are absorbed very quickly to provide an energy boost. The rest lurk about and tell us that we are full.
We are not that far removed from our primeval state as humans, when food was hard to find and had to be competed for. Getting hungry means getting stressed, so eating fatty foods is a stress buster that is hard-wired into the human.
Crumpets are one of the better comfort foods, as the fat intake can be controlled by limiting the amount of butter one puts upon them. Chocolate is a bit more dodgy, as it is often loaded with sugar, which is a carbohydrate, not a fat.
Anyone who has found this interesting can get the full gen from McGee's book 'on Food and Cooking'. Chefs might also like to look up Heston Blumenthal on the web.
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chocolate!!!!
Soft boiled egg with toast
White chocolate, preferably milky bars.
Easy: malteasers - comforting and addictive. I know - sounds like an advert!
Chocolate digestive biscuites. Failing that simple chocolate will do the trick, especially with a hot cup of tea!
shortbread
battered chicken nuggets with some BBQ sauce
macaroni and cheese, soup, homemade bread, pasta, scrambled eggs, grilled cheese sandwich, moose tracks ice cream
toast
mashed potatoes
jacket potatoes
biscuits
generally anything i fancy, but i do like my carbs
Puddings, every time!good old fashioned fruit pudding with gallons of custard.mmmm.
i like orange chicken and white rice
tiramisu or galaxy ripples
anything salty like chips! washed down with a cup of tea.
or, toast and peanut butter.
Cheese and tomato pizza with pepperoni, cheese and potato pie, desserts, cheese on toast.
wholegrain toast or a lovely bit of vanilla fudge. Melt in the mouth perfection
Oxtail soup.
Crumpets, with the butter dripping out of the bottom, and some marmite.
Fresh home made brown bread - again with butter and marmite
cheese
bacon sarnies - fresh crusty bread, no butter, really good bacon and HP sauce - yum!!!
tomato soup and a cup of hot chocolate
strawberries in summer and cups of tea with toast and marmalade in winter
oh my god i am so british it hurts at times