What the !@#$%^&^% is a "comfort food"?

Question

What the !@#$%^&^% is a "comfort food"?

Answer 1

It's whatever you eat when you are blue that makes you feel better!

Answer 2

It is food that you really like, and it is probably different for different people.

For me a big bowl of thick veggie soup in front of the fire on a cold winters evening will 'hit the spot'.

At other times it is a plate of tripe and onions, mashed potatoes and creamy white parsley sauce.

Answer 3

It is a food that brings you comfort.

Many people turn to comfort food for familiarity, emotional security, or as a special reward.

Answer 4

A comfort food is what people eat when they are stressed out or upset. Generally the are foods that are sweet, salty , and very fattening.  

Answer 5

comfort food (food that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing; sometimes with  a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking.

It can be mac and cheese, or stew, or in my case hungarian stew with dumplings..or chicken and dumplings.  It is primarily food that is more or less "peasant" food...cheap, filling and full of fat and calories.!  hahahaha

It can be ice cream, chocolate, cakes , cookies, pudding, homemeade donuts...whatever comforts you in your time of stress.  It is meant to make you feel like you were back in childhood protected and safe and worry free.

UNTIL you step on the scales and realize that comfort food is more stressful sometimes!  hahahaha

Answer 6

Comfort food is typically inexpensive, uncomplicated, and easy to prepare. Many people turn to comfort food for familiarity, emotional security, or as a special reward[citation needed]. The reasons a dish becomes a comfort food are diverse but often include pleasant associations of childhood[citation needed]. 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 eat comfort food for a sense of continuity.

Comfort foods are typically composed largely of simple or complex carbohydrate, such as sugar, rice, refined wheat, and so on.

The term "comfort food" was added to the Webster's Dictionary in 1972.

Answer 7

food that you eat when you are sad

for most people it is ice cream

usually people eat junk food or foods that make you fat when you are looking for comfort

Answer 8

it's foods that people eat to get comfort like deep fried or a big bowl of ice cream. Usually fattening foods. Lol

Answer 9

Any food that helps you to feel good.  It could be a food from your childhood that has happy memories connected to it.  Some people feel good and comforted when they eat mac and cheese...others, it may be meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy.  When you eat this food, it gives you comfort.

Answer 10

like chocolate or icecream for most people but it depends.

Answer 11

A comfort food is a food that comforts you:)

Answer 12

its a food people eat when they are feeling depressed.  

For example when my boyfriend broke up with me, I sat in front of the TV eating ice cream and junk food for like 3 days.

The ice cream and junk food were comfort foods.  

Answer 13

Food that makes you feel good when your feeling down and out.

Answer 14

Mashed Potatoes

Pasta

Pizza

French Fries

All the unhealthy stuff that makes you fat.

Answer 15

usually something unhealthy, sugary, salty, high in fat etc that people eat when theyre stressed out and sad because it makes them feel better. typically women eat them on occasion and call them "comfort foods" because they tend to avoid them or eat a small amount of it on a regular basis

Answer 16

food that makes you feel good when you eat it.

for me it's my mom's lasagna...makes me feel happy and cozy when I eat it. Also, my stepmoms cinnamon cookies remind me of a snowy winter day curled up eating those warm cookies.

Hopefully those examples helped you get a good idea of what a comfort food is....hope it didn't make you hungry though!

Answer 17

Food that makes you feel better when your having a bad day