A few of our members got together to chat about what foods they class as ‘Comfort food’ and brought samples to try.
It was an interesting discussion with a lot of the consensus being that, for everyone, comfort food had a certain amount of nostalgia associated with it, particularly (for most) relating to childhood. For most it was linked to ‘warming’ food that tends to be quite simple. Some of us had similar ideas such as stews, tomato soup, bread and butter puddings and egg custards. One member chose various dahls which related to when she first met her partner, many years ago whilst others related to their parents or grandparents. Cake proved to be a firm favourite, as did chocolate.
Also interestingly, people struggled to think of just a couple of things and as we chatted and mentioned our own thoughts, often others were in agreement. Some people had favourite comfort foods that others really did not like, such as sago pudding which caused some strenuous reactions!!