What does "COMFORT FOOD" mean?!
What does "COMFORT FOOD" mean?
Somebody I know told me she works at a restaurant that makes "comfort food". I asked her what that meant, and the person sitting next to her said, "Macaroni and cheese". I said "Oh" and walked away scratching my head.
Answers:
The term comfort food refers to any food or drink to which one habitually turns for temporary respite, security, or special reward. The reasons that something becomes a comfort food are diverse but include the food's familiarity, simplicity, and/or pleasant associations. Small children often seem to latch on to a specific food or drink (in a way similar to a security blanket) and will repeatedly request it in high stress situations. Adults, however, are certainly not exempt.
I think you should look at this web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/comfort_foo...
When sick, or tired, or far from home, everyone seems to yearn for the gastronomic equivalent of a warm sweater, a kiss on the forehead, a favorite blanket. Macaroni and cheese might mean comfort to you. Or perhaps your source of succor is beef stew or udon noodles. We asked acclaimed chefs and food writers to share their favorite comfort foods and discovered that even people who have sampled the world’s culinary delights return to simple, hearty fare when they crave comfort.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/foo...
simple food that most ppl are addicted to ... and are easy to make or eat or both. i dont know what that means in a restaurant.... but ppls common comfort foods are mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, pizza, ice-cream....
anything yuod reach for when your bored, depressed, watching a movie or anytime you need to be conforted by edible objects..
I think it's stuff that people make in there houses. Instead of food that resturants normally have there would be things like mac and cheese, stew, apple pie. I think every one has there own comfort food though. Like my mom makes great chicken and dumplings and on a cold day I love having them.
I think it means the kinds of food that bring your memory back to good meals you've had with people you really like. And lots of people think of good home-cooked food as comfort food ... what their moms made like meat loaf, and potatoes and gravy, and macaroni and cheese and ...
But it's probably different for everyone. It's food that makes you feel happy.
For me it's things like bread pudding and spaghetti and hot chocolate made the old fashioned way in a pan with unsweetened cocoa and milk and sugar.
LOL well comfort food is anything that makes you feel better when you eat it. It's usually very rich and fattening, things like mac and cheese, ice cream, chocolate, etc, it's just really anything that you personally eat just because you love it and it makes you feel at home.....or makes you feel better if you've had a bad day or just feel down
My idea of it, is this:
Anything juicy or fattening or sugary or down-right bad to the bone!!
Basically, the stuff that makes you feel guilty :p
or..
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Its like southern food, or soul food. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy
It means food that makes you feel good. Everyone has their own comfort food such as it may be chocolate, icecream, basically food that is probably naughty!
foods that make you feel better when your depressed, stressed, anxious etc.
Usually heavy foods that remind one of home and hearth; Mac and cheese, meatloaf, turkey w/ mashed potatoes. Food that makes you feel warm inside, as well as stuffed.
It is what it says it is. It is food that comforts you. It's food that brings back memories of your childhood or a really good time in your life. Common comfort food is fried chicken, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese, chocolate cake, ice cream, but can really be any food that "comforts" you.
It's food that when you think of it, eating it and how it makes you feel, is cozy.
It can be your personal favorite food, as simple as ice cream.
I think comfort food is what you might want to put in your tummy to make your psychology feel good when you are down in the dumps or homesick. It's different for everyone, depending upon the season and how you were raised.
After you eat it you would feel like you are getting a hug from the inside out.
Stuff you got as a kid and reminds you of home. For Inuits in Alaska it would be fish, whale blubber and whatever else they eat. Wow! comfort sure does take on a different meaning depending where you were raised.
That restaurant must have a huge menu! But comfort food usually means those foods that remind you of a good, relaxing time-- like fried chicken at an aunts house on sunday afternoon. Of course everyone has their own!
It's food that is cooked at home such as like by your mom. So if she made something that you really like such as a favorite chocolate cake recipe then when you eat it you feel good eating it because it brings back pleasant memories of being with her.
For me it's the recipe that my mom makes with chicken breasts.
Hello Jeff, its not the food what makes it "comfortable food", its the person who's going to eat it.
remember when you were a child and you're mom calls you for lunch? i bet you can still smell it when you hear the name of that food.
its like that kind of thing.
as you see in most of the answers, comfortable food composed of sugar, rice, wheat and so on, that is, it contains high calories which "induce an opiate-like effect in the brain" (from wikipedia.org), which may account for their soothing nature.
you can't make a list of "comfort food" because it's not the type of food that makes it comfortable.
and because its something in your head that makes definition to "comfort food", then i guess commercials and marketing plays a great role here, don't you think?
It's good "home-made" type food that makes you feel warm and good when you eat it. It's usually fattening but sooooo good.
food that you eat until you puke or fall asleep while your feeling upset