So, you will help me.
Tell me, what are your favorite comfort foods and why?
For example, who used to make it for you. What time of day did you eat it. Did you sneak it into your bedroom? Was it a food you ate after a breakup, or a bad test score?
I want to hear all about it. 
Why: Beer, because it tastes good, and it's always been associated in my mind with adulthood. Beer reminds me that, no matter what else goes on, I am the captain of myself, I am responsible. To me, Beer is a reminder of my individual sovereignty.
Coffee, because it tastes good and gives me energy, and because I always drink it at times of the day that are special to me - early morning, just before sunset, laaaaaaaate nights, and when I'm with family. Also when studying. So I associate coffee with happy times.
For foods, it's mcdonald's breakfast items for the exact same reasons as coffee, and meatloaf and mashed potatos because of it's pure simplicity and deliciousness.
Mmm.
Hot cocoa is good too. Especially with a healthy shot of raspberry vodka.
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Xyrra had this to say about Reading Rainbow:Hot cocoa is good too. Especially with a healthy shot of raspberry vodka.
I hear ya there. I've been downing the hot cocoa every night for the past two weeks.
Lots of whipped cream.
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You guys are doing good though! Hot chocolate is a good thing, and meetloaf is a winner too.
I don't do anything when I'm stressed out besides fall asleep, basically.
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Get an appetizer sampler (Onion Straws, Fried Pickle Chips, Chicken Wings, and some Potato Skins), and I demolish a good half of it myself.
Then I go for the main course. A full rack of their ribs, and fries and macaroni as the side dishes. I'm so full by the end of the meal that I can barely remember my own name, let alone whatever it was that was bugging me.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mooj said:
I've got one specific meal that's comfort food to me. When I've had a bad day, like... the mother of all bad days... I go to Memphis Championship Barbeque over by the air force base.Get an appetizer sampler (Onion Straws, Fried Pickle Chips, Chicken Wings, and some Potato Skins), and I demolish a good half of it myself.
Then I go for the main course. A full rack of their ribs, and fries and macaroni as the side dishes. I'm so full by the end of the meal that I can barely remember my own name, let alone whatever it was that was bugging me.
Oh yeah man, I love their fried pickles. The creamed corn there is love too.
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Toasted cheese sandwich and Tomato Soup. My mom made it for me when i was feeling down.
That is forever my cold day, or rainy day food. Whenever it's icky outside, my mom would make that and float some oyster crackers in the soup. Then I would dunk my sandwich in it, hoping not to get smacked upside the head. 
For myself, either a grilled cheese sandwich or macaroni and cheese with sausage that i've sliced into rounds and fried up, then mixed in with the macaroni is awsome.
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This thread is prejudice against mouthless beings.
That's because I am a bigot.
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For myself, either a grilled cheese sandwich or macaroni and cheese with sausage that i've sliced into rounds and fried up, then mixed in with the macaroni is awsome
That sounds yum! I like to make my own howmemade mac and cheese with a bechamel sauce, and I put in chunks of ham. Chunks of sausage would be fun too!
Like eating pumpkin pie and remembering Thanksgiving at your Grandma's, not the bitchy old one that keeps a pint of whisky in her purse and beats people with her cane.. but the nice one.
The Grandma that always had something baking for you, and always had a new coloring book and crayons out for you when you went to visit. Not Grandma Vaughn, who let your cousin Vinny piss on the coloring book box and take the iron to the crayons to see how many he could melt together.
Comfort food is about taking a bite of something and closing your eyes and saying, "oooh.. yeah.. I've been in this Nirvana before". Maybe it was when you ate the pie right before you broke cousin Vinnie's nose with the 3lb block of pissy crayons. Who knows.
Comfort food is Nae fucked around with this message on 04-03-2006 at 12:24 AM.
On the other hand, mmm, prickly pears.
I'm glad we don't work in the same part of the department anymore, that was getting to damn expensive to do all the time. 
-H
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Hellbender absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
When I get stressed, I eat like a mad man. There was a guy I used work with who is my enabler. When we would have stressful days, we would take a long lunch and go to Olive Garden and pig out. I'd always get Chicken Fettucini or Three Meat Ravioli and he'd get a Mixed Grill Plate. We'd have appetizers and desert too.I'm glad we don't work in the same part of the department anymore, that was getting to damn expensive to do all the time.
-H
It's horrible (in a good way) here in Paris. They give us almost 2 hours for lunch, and a lunch consisting of appetizer, entree, cheese, dessert, and wine costs 4E50.
Life is rough. 
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
At work, I end up drinking iced breve chai tea lattes (breve being half-and-half - yeah, that stuff you normally just put a little of into your coffee. Yeah, we'll serve whole drinks made of that shit.) I try to stay away from them as much as I can, though - that shit is beaucoup calories. It doesn't really bring back a memory or anything, though, it's just really damn good.
I kinda only eat when I'm hungry...
Now, eating when bored... that's a different story. -_-
