Last Updated on February 12, 2022
A new study suggests that from an emotional benefit standpoint, comfort food may not accomplish what we think it does.
But that doesn’t stop many of us for turning to certain foods when we feel down, anxious or even angry.
I don’t know what your comfort food or foods of choice happen to be, but in my case, it’s hard to come up with just one. Ice cream is always a winner, as is a nice peanut butter milkshake.
If I’m hungry enough for a meal at a restaurant, Outback tends to be my first choice, though a costly one, when it comes to satisfying a need for comfort food. When it’s been a rough day, beef preferably a nice big Ribeye — is definitely what’s for dinner.
But one of the relatively simplest comfort foods is something my grandmother would make me for breakfast some mornings after my parents would drop me off there on their way to work.
I know many of you who don’t live in the south haven’t necessarily come to appreciate grits. But she’d make a pot of grits with cheese and then add chopped sausage into it. She’d serve it on a plate with a little butter.
This particular comfort food for me is one that I enjoy because it takes me back to those times, when everything seemed simpler.
That brings me to this week’s edition of The Big Question for you.
Pot roast with potatoes and carrots. It always makes me feel like home.
Lobster, New England Clam Chowder, steamers, baked potato, corn on the cob and a cold beer. You can’t get much better than that.
Why? Because it is so good! And I don’t mean that stuff they serve at Red Lobster, but Maine lobster that you wait for on the dock while they take it off the boat.