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There's a lot of buzz about comfort food right now - macaroni and
cheese, chicken soup, meatloaf, and doughnuts - things that you crave when you
need a little bit of TLC whether it's from a bad day, being sick, or just hungover. The buzz has gotten me
thinking about things that are the exact opposite of comfort foods. Does that mean
uncomfortable foods? Nah, uncomfortable foods are things like still-wiggling octopus
tentacles and scorpions. I
was thinking more along the lines of the last thing I want to eat when I need some TLC (but that's not to
say that live octopus isn't one of those last things).
- Salad - Salad really is the opposite of every comfort food I know. It's cold. It's light. It's a little too healthy. Even when it has two cups of oily, fatty, sugary dressing on it, a salad still has all those healthy vegetables with vitamins and minerals, which are probably really good to have when sick. I don't care. I don't want vitamins. At least not from a salad. (And not from a vitamin either.)
- Sushi - It's raw and it's cold. Sushi is not warm and comforting, and I don't want to cuddle up with it. It reminds me of when I wanted a puppy when I was little and my parents bought me a goldfish instead.
- Fresh fruit - "I'm depressed," shouldn't be followed with, "Aw, here, honey, have an apple." That's not right. If the apple is drowning in hot sticky caramel and wrapped in a flaky pastry, maybe I'll feel better. But a fresh apple? See #1, salad.
- Wine - When I'm hungover, the last thing I want to drink is wine. Some say that the best way to cure a hangover is with more alcohol, which I totally agree with. That's why I say, "bring me a bloody mary!" not wine.
- Cookies - This is weird, I know. It's probably only me. In fact, I think I really might be the only one who doesn't want to eat a cookie when I'm sick. When I'm sane, happy, and healthy, I love cookies of every kind, even *ahem* store-bought ones. But if I'm hungover or sick, a cookie sounds dry, like it will take too much effort to chew and swallow. I don't mind the fat and sugar though, which is probaby why a piece of tres leches cake sounds great.
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1-13-2006 @12:11AM Ed said... Man, I agree with you about salad except when it comes to caesar salad. Especially blackened chicken caesar salad. There's something really comforting about that to me.
My real comfort foods are chinese and middle eastern. Dunno why, but really good chinese food and really good middle eastern food satisfy me to my core.
I blame the rice.
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1-13-2006 @1:24AM sarah said... i *might* agree with you on the caesar salad...i LOVE caesar salad. but still, if i have to choose between, say, five cheese lasagne and caesar salad...
and i totally hear you on the chinese food. i don't know if it's the rice for me though. i think it's the fact that it's sooo greasy, soooo salty, and can be spicy. YUM.
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1-13-2006 @9:15AM Lai-Yee said... Whhhaaaaatttt? Sushi isn't a comfort food?
Sushi is my end all be all food. Well, technically sashimi, which a lot of people will find way less comforting due to the all cold, moist texture. But come on, don't tell me a nice fatty hunk of salmon sashimi isn't comforting - cause oh, baby is it.
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1-13-2006 @10:22AM Peter said... I agree with Lai-Yee. When I am down and need some Omega-3's to perk me up, I go straight for sashimi like salmon, tuna, yellowtail and my all-time favorite, mackerel! Especially with a nice warm bowl of red miso soup and some warm sake. Might be a top five comfort food for me. :)
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1-13-2006 @12:07PM Robyn said... Yup, I think rice is a major comfort food for me too. But if we're talking like when you're sick, yeah I don't like sushi or cookies when I'm sick. I only like soup or other warm things.
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1-13-2006 @3:56PM William said... If I'm sick then sushi is not a comfort food (I like minestrone when I'm sick) unless it's the lunch special at my favorite sushi place where you get a bowl of soup with soba noodles in it and a bowl of sushi rice with some tuna sashimi on top. Otherwise sushi is not for eating while sick. But if I'm just feeling down and depressed then sushi is a sure fire pick me up. I guess it depends on the type of comfort needed.
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1-22-2006 @12:15AM yelena said... if i'm actually sick nothing makes me feel better than a large container of hot and sour soup from my favorite chinese joint. if i'm upset and need comforting than basically anything greasy salty or spicy will do. preferably a combination of all three.or chocolate cake or apple pie a la mode, dunno why but all the other sweet things just make me even more depressed/sicker feeling.
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1-22-2006 @2:13PM sarah said... okay, so i am sick right now, and the last thing i want to eat is sushi. i think when i'm SICK, i want something hot, steamy and spicy. hot and steamy helps with congestion, and since i can't taste very much when i have a cold, at least something spicy FEELS like i can taste something.
oh boy, i could totally go for korean yook-gae-jahng or soon doo-boo jjigae!
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