What is Comfort Food?
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(n) Defined as food that gives emotional comfort to the one eating it, these tend to be favorite foods of childhood, or linked to a person, place or time with which the food has a positive association.
Grandma always made the best mashed potatoes and gravy, they've become a comfort food for me.
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food that is not only comforting to the taste buds, but all the other senses.
gotta get me some comfort food
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n. euphemism for tasty, satisfying foods of high caloric content relative to little nutritional value, term is utilized exclusively by individuals who can least afford to consume such foods to rationalize consumption of foods with no other value except "comfort."
n. foods which increase the comfortable, luxurious padding on a
Sheena looked down when she dropped her candy bar, but the comfort food seemed to disappear completely. Had it fallen down her cleavage, or was it near her feet? She wasn't quite sure.
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(n.)High in fat and carbohydrate, comfort foods are eaten by lazy glutons to help them forget thier woes.
Comfort food fattens up animals for the kill.
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