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[Sue Clemenger]

Gawd...only *one* comfort food? Not very creative, was she? I think mine
vary depending on the type of "comfort" I need.  When I'm sick, I want
homemade chicken soup (old recipe from one of my pagan magazines) and
orange jello with 7-up, mandarin oranges and pineapple in it (my
maternal grandmother's recipe, and about the _only_ time jello ever
voluntarily crosses my lips).  If I'm frazzled, it's vanilla-swiss
almond Haagen-Dasz (sp?) or Constant Comment tea, or sekanjabin (which
I'm actually drinking now).  If it's I'm-depressed-and-I-miss-my-mom
(she's been dead several years) it's just _got_ to be Campbell's tomato
soup with little meatballs and cheese melted in, because that was one of
her favorites.
Now, I can only cop to being a Yankee (and a western one at that),
because ya gotta go, oh, about 4 generations back in my father's family
to find anyone south of the Mason-Dixon line, so I've never really had
*real* southern fried chicken.  Do you do anything special with it?
Spices? Buttermilk? What about the smashed tatters? Do you do cream
gravy? (*laughs* I'm making myself hungry, here....<g>)
I love chocolate, but it's an "indulgence" food, not a comfort one.
So, Phlip....what's your favorite *period* comfort food? Mine is
probably blancmange....all that nummy rice and chicken....hmmm....I
think I have chicken and rice _and_ almonds....hmmmm.....Sunday
dinner.....
--Maire

Philippa Alderton wrote:
>

> Comfort foods are Good, if only psychologically. I
> remember get interviewed some time ago, by some
> Counselor type, who was trying to Prove Something, and
> she asked me what my favorite comfort food was, and
> was rather miffed, and repeated the question, and
> defined the term for me, when I told her it was a
> meal- green beans, fried chicken, and mashed potatoes.
> She was even more miffed when she asked, "Oh, KFC?"
> and I said, "No, I either cook it myself, or get my
> mother to do it". No accounting for Yankees.....
>
> I gathered that most women she'd interviewed wanted
> either chocolate or something with a lot of sugar in
> it, and she had trouble understanding why someone
> would want a good meal, with pleasant associations,
> rather than stuffing themselves with junk.
>
> Ah well....
>
> Phlip