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11 December 2007

What's your favorite comfort food? →[More:]I first heard the phrase "comfort food" when my friend and I finished a 62 day deployment aboard the now decommissioned USS Honolulu. We had already eaten before leaving the boat, but for some reason my buddy just had to have a meal over at the on- base Chili's. "Its a fat-guy thing" he remarked. I couldn't help but remember his words last night as I chowed down on two Jimmy Dean sausage, egg,& cheese biscuits; half a quart of Bordern's Egg Nog; and a half a quart of HEB Rainbow Sherbet (cuz its healthier.) I wasn't really stressed, I just couldn't sleep. So what junk food puts your mind at ease?

post by: Brandon1600 at: 17:24 | 34 comments

Taco Bell. (any Mexican food, really, but the guilty truth is when the shit hits the fan, I want a bean burrito with sour cream eaten in a car. That's a snapshot for ya. Single parent, only child, Southern California childhood.)

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 11 December | 17:28

Anything potatoes.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 December | 17:31

Ice cream.

Oh, and oyster stew made with milk, butter, and served with heaping heaps of those little round oyster crackers.

posted by bunnyfire 11 December | 17:32

mac 'n cheese.

homemade mac 'n cheese. With real sharp cheddar, a bit of gruyere in the mix for extra punch, and a dash of cayenne sprinkled on top.

Served up with a big hot buttery slice of the mister's fresh-baked sourdough bread. Yum yum, a carboholic's dream!

posted by lonefrontranger 11 December | 17:33

Mince and Tatties.

posted by oh pollo! 11 December | 17:36

Anything potatoes.

Me too. God I love potatoes.

It used to be a grilled cheese sandwich and some tomato soup, and then it was macaroni and cheese. But for the longest time it's been potatoes.

posted by iconomy 11 December | 17:37

ice cream

spaghetti

cheeseburger macaroni hamburger helper

yum

posted by triggerfinger 11 December | 17:41

Pasta with a Bolognese or Arrabbiata sauce and some crusty bread.

posted by arse_hat 11 December | 17:50

Pesto and gnocchi. Which, in a way, is another potato thing. (Although it is hardly "fast food" that you can pick up at any Bun-n-Run.)

posted by danf 11 December | 17:51

It used to be a grilled cheese sandwich and some tomato soup, and then it was macaroni and cheese. But for the longest time it's been potatoes.

All of those, please.

posted by gaspode 11 December | 18:03

Mine is grilled cheese sammich and tomato soup. But potatoes anything is a close second. Plain buttered toast is good for when I have a migraine but need to eat something.

And dang, I wish I could get those Jimmy Dean breakfast biscuits here in BC. I used to get them in Texas and I miss them.

posted by deborah 11 December | 18:07

Also mac'n'cheese, but oddly, when I want it for comfort I don't want the good stuff - I want bright yellow Kraft dinner.

If not that, then angel hair 'n' meatballs with red sauce, my mom's meatball recipe.

Or a quickie peanut-butter sandwich, made on whole-wheat toast (one side buttered), with rasberry jam. Jam on the butter side.

posted by Miko 11 December | 18:10

Ordinary potato chips, the cheaper the better.

posted by mischief 11 December | 18:29

cheeeeese.

posted by By the Grace of God 11 December | 18:32

oh, and fried chicken with spicy batter, crispy as hell, smothered in the big bottle for $1 hot sauce.

posted by By the Grace of God 11 December | 18:32

Y'know, sometimes, readin' these worthless intertubes, Ah Gets Pissed.

So, I pours myself a manly libation, and breathes through my eyelids, like lava lizards.

And then, after due consideration, I go to The Third Street Diner, and order, at 02:00 EST, or later, an egg cream, and a One Eyed Texas Stack. Not that Sharon remembers, from one of my visits to the next, what the hell a "One Eyed Texas Stack" is.

It's a Greek diner, fer chrissakes, and she only remembers short tippers, and big spenders. Me? I'm just an old, grey bearded, mid-shift pain in the ass...

posted by paulsc 11 December | 18:47

Oooo an egg cream!

posted by iconomy 11 December | 18:58

Leona's makes Blue Cheese Steak Fries. It's not on the menu anymore (supposedly a misprint) so you will have to be particularly cunning in order to order it.

Fried potato wedges drowned in a blue cheese alfredo sauce with bacon, diced tomatoes, green onions and probably other delicious things but by that time my brain is overcome by deliciousness.

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posted by pokermonk 11 December | 19:10

Miso Soup.

Since I live by myself, and I haven't taught Silver or Saffron to cook, I must get up the gumption to make it myself. When I do, it is soooooooooo goood.

posted by eekacat 11 December | 19:31

Starch.

posted by mudpuppie 11 December | 19:39

pasta with marinara sauce (like I just ate)
chili cheese dip
mac & cheese (the powder cheese kind or velveeta with soy crumbles and tomatoes)
cheddar cheese melted on a tortilla, rolled up
Lipton Cup-a-Soup, cream of chicken flavor
hot chocolate
cream cheese

Oreos used to be my comfort food, but I was eating way too many, so I don't buy them anymore.

posted by youngergirl44 11 December | 19:43

burritos

posted by mullacc 11 December | 20:15

Icecream, icecream or icecream. Sometimes topped with icecream if I need extra comforting.

posted by dg 11 December | 20:32

Double bacon cheese Krystal. Actually three double bacon cheese Krystals (c'mon, they're small). With a little daub of ketchup on each. And a vat of icy cold Dr. Pepper. And chili cheese fries. And a defibrillator.

posted by BitterOldPunk 11 December | 21:02

lasagna. i have always identified strongly with garfield.

when i'm sick, i eat peanut butter rice soup, a sort of rice porridge invented for me by my mother when i was a baby and wouldn't eat meat.

then again, there is also the time and place -- no matter how much you argue -- for totino's pizza rolls. this time and place is better if not disclosed in public.

thank you.

posted by brina 11 December | 21:46

If any of you fine folks come touristing through my swamps, I'll fix you a bowl of my chicken and andouille gumbo and you'll write home and ask them to forward your mail to Louisiana from now on.

posted by ColdChef 12 December | 00:09

I just ate a tortilla filled with rice, pepperoni, and some cheap cheeses.

But my favorite comfort food is cold, whole, raw milk. It took me over a decade, but I finally figured out that due to quirks of my digestive system, milk doesn't get fully digested and big molecules pass through my gut into my brain with a mild narcotic effect. I crave milk like some people crave nicotine, but I pretty much quit drinking it because it aggravates the ADD something awful.

Tuna fish and rice casserole is an old standby as well.

posted by craniac 12 December | 01:00

Pot roast and/or mashed potatoes and gravy.

posted by amyms 12 December | 01:14

Mac and cheese. Or McDonalds. That Sweet and Sour sauce is like crack.

posted by sperose 12 December | 01:17

In no order: shepherd's pie; beef stew; my husband's version of Riganato; fish sticks (oddly); creamed spinach; my Mom's lasagna; my Mom's chili; potato soup; moussaka; briam, red beans and rice.

Also, Winter is comfort food season!

posted by taz 12 December | 01:32

risotto. with lots and lots of parmesan. mmmmmmm

posted by altolinguistic 12 December | 02:48

Mashed potato - the ultra creamy kind - with plenty of roasted garlic and pecorino whipped in. Dear god, it's good...

posted by ninazer0 12 December | 04:11

I'm not sure I have a comfort food, per se.

posted by chuckdarwin 12 December | 08:44

Holy crap, this thread has made me hungry.

Grilled cheese & tomato soup here, too.
Campbell's cream of mushroom soup
mashed potatoes and gravy
osso buco & mushroom risotto (though it's a bit of work, so I rarely make it)
Lindsay's pitted black olives

posted by elizard 12 December | 17:39

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