Comfort food



Comfort food is food that provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to someone and may be characterized by its high caloric nature associated with childhood or home cooking. The nostalgia may be specific to an individual or it may apply to a specific culture.

Definition and history
The term comfort food can be traced back at least to 1615, where in the beginning of the second part of one of the most famous works of the Spanish literature Don Quixote, at the beginning of chapter one, Quixote's niece and her nurse (governess, housekeeper?, "ama") are told to pamper him, "to give him things to eat which are comforting and appropriate for the heart and the brain... ." Others trace it back to 1966, when the Palm Beach Post used it in a story: "Adults, when under severe emotional stress, turn to what could be called 'comfort food'—food associated with the security of childhood, like mother's poached egg or famous chicken soup." According to research by April White at JSTOR, it might have been Liza Minnelli who used the term for the first time in its modern meaning in an interview, admitting to craving a hamburger.

When the term first appeared, newspapers used it in quotation marks. In the 1970s, the most popular comfort food in the United States were various potato dishes and chicken soup, but even at the time, the definition varied from person to person. During the next decades, the nature of comfort food changed in the USA, shifting from savory dishes to sweet ones, while comfort food themed cookbooks started to spread and restaurants started to offer items labelled as such, when originally the term was used for food items consumed "home alone". Worldwide diet trends, emerging in the 1990s, like the low fat or the low-carb diet were unable to end the cravings for comfort food. According to White, the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world in 2020 further strengthened people's need for comfort food that evokes nostalgia and the feeling of belonging.

Psychological studies
Consuming energy-dense, high calorie, high fat, salt or sugar foods, such as ice cream or french fries, may trigger the reward system in the human brain, which gives a distinctive pleasure or temporary sense of emotional elevation and relaxation. These feelings can also be induced by psychoactive ingredients found in other foods, such as coffee and chocolate. When psychological conditions are present, people often use comfort food to treat themselves. Those with negative emotions tend to eat unhealthy food in an effort to experience the instant gratification that comes with it, even if only short-lived.

One study divided college-students' comfort-food identifications into four categories (nostalgic foods, indulgence foods, convenience foods, and physical comfort foods) with a special emphasis on the deliberate selection of particular foods to modify mood or affect, and indications that the medical-therapeutic use of particular foods may ultimately be a matter of mood-alteration.

The identification of particular items as comfort food may be idiosyncratic, though patterns are detectable. In one study of American preferences, "males preferred warm, hearty, meal-related comfort foods (such as steak, casseroles, and soup) while females instead preferred comfort foods that were more snack related (such as chocolate and ice cream). In addition, younger people preferred more snack-related comfort foods compared to those over 55 years of age." The study also revealed strong connections between consumption of comfort foods and feelings of guilt.

Comfort food consumption is seen as a response to emotional stress and, consequently, as a key contributor to the epidemic of obesity in the United States. The provocation of specific hormonal responses leading selectively to increases in abdominal fat is seen as a form of self-medication.

Further studies suggest that consumption of comfort food is triggered in men by positive emotions, and by negative ones in women. The stress effect is particularly pronounced among college-aged women, with only 33% reporting healthy eating choices during times of emotional stress. For women specifically, these psychological patterns may be maladaptive.

A therapeutic use of these findings includes offering comfort foods or "happy hour" beverages to anorectic geriatric patients whose health and quality of life otherwise decreases with reduced oral intake.

By region
A partial list by region of comfort foods around the world.

Afghanistan
Comfort foods in Afghanistan are:


 * Aushak – stuffed dumplings and sauce
 * Bolani – filled flatbread
 * Borani Banjan or Borani-e-Banjan – baked eggplant with yogurt sauce
 * Borani Kadoo or Borani-e-Kado – sweet and savory braised pumpkin with yogurt sauce
 * Chainaki – lamb stew, traditionally served in a bowl lined with naan, and cooked in a clay vessel known as a chainak
 * Chalaw or Challow – steamed rice with spices
 * Kabuli palaw or Qabuli Pulao – steamed rice with raisins, carrots, and lamb
 * Karahai – meat cooked in a traditional karahi pot
 * Kebab – grilled skewered meat
 * Korma Gosht or Qorma-e-Gosht – braised meat
 * Mantu – meat-stuffed dumpling
 * Naan – flatbread
 * Sabzi Palu – spinach (sabzi) with spices
 * Sher Berinj – rice pudding

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa


Comfort foods in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa may include:


 * Braised lamb shanks
 * Bread and butter pudding
 * Butterscotch apple dumplings
 * Casserole (beef or chicken)
 * Chicken soup
 * Fish and Chips
 * Golden syrup pikelets
 * Honey and oat slices
 * Hot chips
 * Lamingtons
 * Mashed potatoes
 * Meat pie
 * Pea and ham soup
 * Pie floater
 * Porridge, topped with brown sugar or honey, yogurt, nuts, and fruit
 * Potato wedges
 * Pumpkin soup
 * Rice custard
 * Roast meat (beef, chicken, or pork with crackling)
 * Roast potatoes
 * Sausage and mash
 * Sausage roll
 * Shepherd's pie
 * Spaghetti
 * Steak and kidney pie
 * Sticky date pudding
 * Vegemite or Marmite on toast

Brazil



 * Brigadeiro, a dessert common in children birthday parties
 * Flan

Canada



 * Butter tart / Tarte au sucre – small sweet tart-shaped pastries
 * Cake
 * Cheesecake
 * Chili and beans
 * Chocolate bars
 * Cookies
 * Fish and chips
 * Fried chicken
 * Fried rice
 * Ginger beef
 * Grilled cheese sandwich
 * Hamburger
 * Ice cream
 * Lasagna
 * Macaroni and cheese
 * Nanaimo bar
 * Pancakes with maple syrup
 * Pea soup
 * Pierogies
 * Pizza
 * Potatoes such as French fries, Hash browns, Mashed potatoes, Potato chips, and Potato salad
 * Poutine
 * Roast meat (beef, chicken, Turkey or pork with crackling)
 * Roast potatoes
 * Rhubarb pie
 * Sausage and mash
 * Sausage roll
 * Scrambled eggs on toast
 * Shepherd's pie
 * Spaghetti
 * Steak and kidney pie
 * Tourtière – meat pie with pork and lard

Egypt

 * Basbousa – sweet unleavened cake
 * Falafel – fried bean ball
 * Fatteh – meat soup on cooked rice with crisp flatbread with garlic sauce
 * Ful medames – bean stew
 * Hawawshi – pita bread stuffed with flavored meat
 * Kushari – casserole of rice, macaroni, and vegetables
 * Macarona béchamel – baked pasta dish with ground meat and béchamel sauce
 * Sahlab – winter beverage from Orchis flour
 * Mulukhiyah – soup or stew made with jute mallow leaves
 * Om Ali – Pastry mixed with milk, nuts and sometimes coconut flakes topped with cream or butter and baked

France



 * Crème caramel – custard dessert
 * French onion soup – onion soup with cheese and bread
 * Gratin dauphinois – potato slices baked with cream
 * Pâté – cold meat paste
 * Pot-au-feu – beef stew

Germany
German comfort foods may include the following foods:


 * Arme Ritter
 * Auszogne
 * Bouletten, Frikadellen, Fleischpflanzerl etc.
 * Bratkartoffeln
 * Currywurst
 * Flädlesuppe
 * Fleischsalat
 * Frankfurter
 * Franzbrötchen
 * Gaisburger Marsch
 * Hamburger Aalsuppe
 * Hamburger Labskaus
 * Kartoffelpuffer
 * Käsespätzle
 * Klöße
 * Kohlrouladen
 * Leberkäse
 * Laugenbrezn, Laugengebäck
 * Maultaschen
 * Mett
 * Münchner Weißwürscht
 * Nürnberger Lebkuchen
 * Nürnberger Rostbratwurst
 * Obazda
 * Pichlstoana
 * Regensburger
 * Rote Grütze
 * Rindsrouladen
 * Sauerbraten
 * Saumagen
 * Schwäbische Spätzle
 * Schlachtplatte
 * Schnitzel
 * Schweinshaxn
 * Spanferkel
 * Steckerlfisch
 * Schweinsbraten

Greece

 * Pastitsio
 * Moussaka
 * Gemista
 * Gyros
 * Keftedakia – meatballs
 * Koulourakia
 * Dolmadakia
 * Souvlaki

Hong Kong

 * Baked pork chop rice– a type of Hong Kong-style western cuisine
 * Cart noodle – an à la carte noodle dish traditionally sold using carts
 * Cha Chaan Teng – a Hong Kong style place to eat comfort food
 * Dim Sum – small bite-sized portions of food served in small steamer baskets during yum cha
 * Egg Tart
 * Hotpot
 * Macaroni in broth – a type of Hong Kong-style western cuisine
 * Pineapple Bun – a type of pastry that resembles a pineapple
 * Put chai ko – a palm-sized pudding cake snack
 * Siu Mei (including char siu) – meats roasted on spits over an open fire or in a large rotisserie oven

Hungary



 * Aranygaluska – dough balls rolled in a mixture of sugar and crushed nuts
 * Goulash soup
 * Chicken soup
 * Lángos – yeast dough deep fried in oil with various toppings
 * Madártej – meringue floating on crème anglaise
 * Chicken paprikash
 * Paprikás krumpli – potato stew with paprika
 * Pörkölt – meat stew with paprika
 * Puliszka – polenta with toppings
 * Rántott hús – a type of Snitzel; but also fried chicken is called the same way
 * Tejbegríz – Semolina pudding
 * Tojásos nokedli – small, plump soft noodles with eggs

India

 * Biryani – Mutton, chicken, beef or lamb
 * Chaat
 * Curd rice – Rice mixed with yogurt
 * Curry
 * Cutlet
 * Dal chawal – particularly in North India
 * Fish fry
 * Kachori
 * Kadhi chawal - curd curry with rice
 * Rolls
 * Maachh-bhaat
 * Momo
 * Sambar
 * Samosa
 * Puri – Fried flatbread
 * Masala Dosa – rice crepes, with or without a filling of potatoes and onion
 * Khichdi – Made with Rice and Legumes (lentils, mung beans)
 * Pav bhaji – Curry served with buttered buns.
 * Radhaballavi – Deep-fried flatbread with a filling
 * Rajma chawal – rice with beans
 * Rasam and Curd rice – particularly in South India
 * Vada Pav

Indonesia
Some popular Indonesian foods are considered to be comfort food, usually served hot or warm, and either soupy or with a soft texture. Most of them are high in carbs or fat, such as congee, fried rice, and noodles which are high in carbs; while meatballs and grilled skewered meats contain fair amounts of fat and salt. Comfort foods often are the kind of food that provides nostalgic sentiments, as they often called masakan rumahan (home cooking) or masakan ibu (mother's dishes). In Indonesia, the warm and soft texture of bubur ayam is believed to help people to recover during convalescence. Sayur sop or sup ayam is Indonesian chicken soup that often sought during flu. The warm soup contains chunk of chicken, bits of potato, carrot, and common green bean served in chicken stock.

Some Indonesian comfort foods are traditional Indonesian food and some are derived from Chinese influences.
 * Bakmi or mie ayam – noodles (mi) with pork (bak) or chicken (ayam)

Indonesian comfort foods include:
 * Bakso – meatball soup
 * Bubur ayam – chicken congee
 * Gado-gado – salad containing vegetables, tempeh and egg in peanut sauce
 * Indomie Mi goreng – fried noodle

For some Indonesians, especially those who are abroad, comfort food may include a favourite brand or type of Indonesian instant noodles, such as Indomie Mi goreng mentioned already.
 * Nasi goreng – fried rice
 * Nasi tim – steamed chicken rice
 * Sayur sop or sup ayam – Indonesian chicken and vegetables soup
 * Sate – skewered barbecue with peanut sauce
 * Soto ayam – spicy chicken soup

Ireland

 * Bangers and mash
 * Coddle
 * Colcannon
 * Fish and chips
 * Full Irish breakfast
 * Irish stew
 * Shepherd's pie
 * Soda bread
 * Spice bag
 * 3-in-1 (egg-fried rice, chips, and curry sauce)

Italy



 * Bruschetta
 * Cacciucco – fish stew
 * Crostini – small toasted bread slices with toppings
 * Gnocchi – small soft dough dumplings
 * Lasagne – flat noodles (pasta) layered with meat, cheese and tomato sauce
 * Pasta all'amatriciana – pasta with guanciale, tomato sauce and pecorino cheese
 * Pasta alla carbonara – pasta with egg, guanciale, and pecorino cheese
 * Nutella – sweet spread of cocoa and hazelnuts
 * Panna cotta – sweetened cream thickened with gelatin
 * Pizza – baked flatbread with toppings
 * Porchetta – boneless pork roast
 * Risotto

Japan
In Japan, there is an expression called "Taste of Mom(おふくろの味)".


 * Curry Rice/Kare Raisu – Stewed vegetables - most commonly potato, onion, and carrot - in a mild curry sauce, sometimes with meat
 * Chazuke/ochazuke – rice with green tea
 * Miso soup – soybean-flavored clear soup
 * Mochi – rice cake
 * Onigiri – rice ball
 * Ramen – soup with thin noodles


 * Takoyaki – octopus balls
 * Tempura – battered, deep-fried pieces of meat or vegetables
 * Udon – soup with thick noodles


 * Tamago kake gohan - cooked rice topped with raw egg

Philippines



 * Adobo – A salt and vinegar marinated meat stew, with a large amount of local and regional variations.
 * Arroz Caldo / Lugaw – A thick, savory rice porridge, often served as breakfast, on rainy days, or when sick.
 * Batchoy – A noodle soup with a variety of meats.
 * Filipino spaghetti - Sweet and savory spaghetti
 * Ginataan – A coconut cream-based dessert soup with candied banana, sticky rice balls, sagó (tapioca balls), taro, and langkâ (jackfruit).
 * Bulalo – A beef bone marrow soup.
 * Champorado – Chocolate rice porridge, sometimes served savory (as with tuyô)
 * Dinuguan - A pork blood and offal stew.
 * Halo-halo – A cold, crushed ice dessert dish of mixed sweets in fruits, with milk and topped with ice cream and leche flan.
 * Kare-kare – A stew of ox tripe and oxtail in a peanut sauce. It is regarded as a local variant of Indian curry.
 * Lumpia – Fried or fresh spring rolls with vegetable or meat filling.
 * Lomi – A hot noodle soup with distinctly thick egg noodles.
 * Pancit – A class of noodles, almost always fried or stir-fried, and often served during birthday celebrations.
 * puto – Steamed rice cakes
 * Sinampalukan - Sour, tamarind-based chicken soup
 * Sinigang – A classification of sour soups with different configurations of meats, vegetables, and souring agents.
 * Sopas - A creamy soup (usually made with chicken) with elbow macaroni.
 * Suman – Another type of glutinous rice cake
 * Tsokolate – Hot chocolate drink made with cacao, served with or without milk.

Poland
Some Polish comfort food include:


 * Soups and stews
 * Bigos – "hunters' stew"
 * Barszcz z uszkami – a variant of borscht, a clear beetroot soup with forest mushrooms dumplings
 * Gulasz – goulash / meat and vegetable stew
 * Kapuśniak – sour cabbage soup (sauerkraut soup)
 * Rosół – chicken soup with fine noodles
 * Zupa grzybowa – wild mushroom soup
 * Zupa ogórkowa – sour cucumber soup
 * Zupa pomidorowa – clear tomato soup with rice or noodles
 * Zupa szczawiowa – sorrel soup served with boiled egg
 * Żurek – sour rye soup
 * Budyń waniliowy z malinami – vanilla pudding with raspberries
 * Kotlet schabowy – pork schnitzel
 * Golonka – stewed or roasted ham hock
 * Kopytka – small potato dumpling
 * Łazanki – large flat noodles with fried sauerkraut
 * Makaron ze śmietaną i truskawkami – pasta with cream and strawberries
 * Naleśniki z twarogiem – pancakes with milk curd
 * Pierogi – filled dumplings
 * Placki ziemniaczane – potato pancakes
 * Sernik – baked cheesecake
 * Śledź w oleju – pickled herring
 * Zasmażana kapusta - braised sauerkraut
 * Zapiekanka – toasted open-face sandwich

Puerto Rico
Some Puerto Rican comfort foods include:


 * Arroz con gandules – rice with pigeon peas
 * Arroz con pollo – rice with chicken
 * Bistec encebollado – steak and onions
 * Carne Guisada – stewed beef
 * Carne mechada – Puerto Rican style meatloaf
 * Churrasco – grilled flank or skirt steak
 * Cuchifritos and Fritanga – assortments of fried appetizers (alcapurrias, bacalaitos, pastelitos/pastelillos, piononos, sorullos/sorullitos)
 * Habichuelas guisadas con calabaza – beans stewed with pumpkin
 * Lechón asado – roast pork
 * Mixta – white rice, stewed beans with pumpkin and stewed meat with potatoes and carrots
 * Mofongo and trifongo – fried mashed green plantains
 * Mofongo relleno de mariscos, carne o pollo – Fried mashed green plantains stuffed with seafood, meat or chicken
 * Pasteles – Puerto Rican tamales
 * Pastelón de plátano maduro – ripe banana casserole with ground beef and cheddar cheese
 * Pinchos – Puerto Rican skewers
 * Tostones – fried plantain slices

Romania
Romanian comfort foods may include:


 * Brânzoaică – soft cake filled with sweet cheese
 * Chocolate salami – dessert made from cocoa, broken biscuits and butter
 * Ciorbă de perișoare – sour soup with meatballs
 * Cozonac – sweet yeast dough
 * Greta Garbo cake – sheets of dough, filled with fruit jam and glazed with chocolate
 * Mititei – grilled ground meat rolls
 * Papanași – traditional fried or boiled pastry
 * Roasted eggplant salad – chopped roasted eggplants
 * Salată de boeuf – chopped beef and root vegetables
 * Sarmale – stuffed cabbage leaves
 * Stuffed peppers – hollowed peppers filled with meat and rice

Russia


Russian comfort foods may include:


 * Bliny – pancakes or crepes
 * Borscht
 * Dressed herring – layered herring salad
 * Golubtsy – cabbage rolls
 * Kasha – buckwheat porridge
 * Kotlety – meatballs
 * Kholodets – savory gelatin
 * Kulebyaka - a fish pie
 * Kvass – fermented drink made with bread
 * Napoleon – layered cake with layers of pastry and cream
 * Okroshka – cold vegetable soup
 * Oladyi – small thick pancakes or fritters
 * Olivier salad – mayo, sausage and vegetable salad
 * Pelmeni – meat-filled dumpling
 * Pirozhki – buns with various fillings
 * Rassolnik – soup with pickles
 * Shashlik – skewered and grilled cubes of meat
 * Shchi – predominantly cabbage soup
 * Solyanka – spicy and sour soup
 * Syrniki – cottage cheese pancakes
 * Ukha – fish-based clear soup
 * Vareniki – filled dumplings (see pierogi for Poland)
 * Vinegret – a salad made of diced vegetables, normally sour
 * Zakuski – an array of dishes to supplement main courses

South Korea



 * Tteokbokki – rice cakes in spicy chili stew
 * Kimbap – cooked rice rolled in seaweed and stuffed with vegetables or meat
 * Samgyeopsal – roasted pork belly
 * Mandu – dumplings with various fillings
 * Soups and stews
 * Kimchi jjigae – spicy stew made with kimchi
 * Haejang-guk – vegetables and meat in beef broth
 * Sundubu-jjigae – soft tofu stew
 * Seolleongtang – ox bone soup
 * Budae-jjigae – "army stew" with noodles, Spam, vegetables and other ingredients
 * Kalguksu – soup with handmade noodles

Spain

 * Castañas asadas – roasted chestnuts
 * Chocolate con churros – hot chocolate drink with fried dough
 * Cordero asado – grilled lamb
 * Fried seafood, such as boquerones fritos (fried anchovies) and calamares fritos (fried squid)
 * Gazpacho – cold vegetable soup
 * Jamón serrano – Serrano ham
 * Paella – rice with saffron, cooked in a shallow pan
 * Sausage, such as chorizo, morcilla, and salchichón
 * Sobao – sweet bread
 * Stew, such as cocido madrileño (Madrid stew)
 * Tarta de Santiago – almond cake or tart
 * Torreznos – bacon
 * Tortilla española or tortilla de patata – potato omelet

Catalonia


Comfort foods in Catalonia include:
 * Pa amb tomàquet (bread smeared with tomato and olive oil, and sometimes garlic)
 * Allioli (Aioli) (sauce which is an emulsion of garlic and olive oil. The name literally means "garlic and oil" in Catalan)
 * Catalan-style cod (with raisins and pine nuts)
 * Escalivada (various grilled vegetables)
 * Escudella i carn d'olla (a broth, it may be served as soup with pasta and minced meats and vegetables, or as the soup first and then the rest)
 * Canelons (Cannelloni with a bechamel sauce)
 * Fricandó
 * Esqueixada (salted cod salad with tomato and onion)
 * Mongetes amb botifarra (beans and pork sausage)
 * Suquet (a seafood casserole)
 * Savoury coca
 * Mar i muntanya ("Sea and Mountain") dishes, which combine meat and seafood
 * Embotits, a generic name for different kinds of cured pork meat, including fuet (a characteristic type of dried sausage), salchichón or llonganissa (salami) and different kinds of cold cut botifarra.
 * Calçot (specially cultivated onion, grilled and served as a "Calçotada")
 * Caragols a la llauna (cooked snails)
 * Sonsos and many other Mediterranean fresh fish
 * Crema catalana (custard made from egg yolks, milk, sugar, lemon zest and cinnamon)
 * Panellets (bite-sized cakes in different shapes, mostly round, made mainly of marzipan)

Switzerland
Traditional Swiss cuisine is characterized by its simplicity and extensive use of dairy products like cheese, cream and butter. Fruits (often apple compote) are also used in many (main) dishes, notably Älplermagronen and Maluns.
 * Älplermagronen
 * Capuns
 * Cholera
 * Fondue
 * Maluns
 * Pizzoccheri
 * Raclette
 * Rösti (with various accompaniments)
 * Wähe (with various ingredients)

Taiwan



 * Beef noodle soup
 * Dan zai noodles – noodles and prawn with broth
 * Minced pork rice
 * Oyster omelette
 * Red bean soup
 * Small sausage in large sausage – grilled sausage in a rice casing
 * Tangyuan – filled rice dumplings in sweet syrup

Turkey


Some Turkish comfort foods are:


 * Mantı – spicy meat dumpling
 * Kuru fasulye – bean and tomato stew
 * Pilav – rice dish
 * Mercimek Çorbası – a soup based on lentils
 * Börek – baked filled pastries, a wide variety of regional variations of börek exists
 * Menemen - commonly eaten for breakfast
 * Yaprak Sarma - stuffed grape leaves
 * Gözleme - a stuffed flatbread, commonly stuffed with spinach, minced meat and potato mash
 * Lahmacun
 * Pide
 * Tarhana soup

Ukraine
Ukrainian comfort foods include, but aren't limitied to:


 * Borscht — beetroots soup, also there are few variants:
 * Green borscht
 * White borscht
 * Cabbage borscht
 * Deruny — potato pancakes with sour cream
 * Holubtsi — small, medium or large rolls with prepared rice
 * Cabbage roll
 * Grape leaves roll
 * Kasha — kind of porridge
 * Kolach — sweet, round shaped pastry
 * Mlynci — pancakes.
 * Nalysnyky — pancakes with fillings
 * Pampushky — small savory or sweet yeast-raised bun
 * Pyrizhky — baked or fried small donuts with different (mostly fruits or meat) fillings. (Not to be confused with Polish PiErogi or Russian PirogI)
 * Syrnyky — fried quark pancakes, garnished with sour cream
 * Varennia — jam
 * Varenyky — Filled dumplings cooked at boiling water
 * Vinegret — Beans and potato salad colored with beetroots

United Kingdom


United Kingdom comfort foods include:


 * Bacon butty (bacon sandwich)
 * Bangers and mash – sausages and mashed potatoes
 * Biscuit
 * Cauliflower cheese
 * Chicken tikka masala
 * Cornish pasty
 * Cottage pie (Shepherd's pie)
 * Custard
 * Curry – India-inspired stew over rice
 * Egg and chips
 * Egg and soldiers – toast sliced into approximately six to eight pieces lengthwise, to dip into soft-boiled egg yolk
 * Fish and chips
 * Fish finger sandwich
 * Fruit crumble – stewed fruit with crumbly topping
 * Full English breakfast
 * Lancashire hotpot
 * Pies
 * Cheese pie, with potatoes or other savory ingredients
 * Fish pie
 * Pork pie
 * Steak and kidney pie
 * Potatoes
 * Jacket potato
 * Mashed potatoes
 * Puddings
 * Bread and butter pudding
 * Jam roly-poly – suet pudding rolled in a spiral with jam
 * Rice pudding
 * Spotted dick – steamed pudding with dried fruit
 * Sticky toffee pudding
 * Treacle pudding
 * Roasted meat, such as Beef or chicken
 * Scotch egg – hard-boiled egg baked in sausage
 * Soups and stews
 * Beef stew with dumplings
 * Cock-a-leekie soup
 * Scouse – meat stew
 * Potato, leek, and Stilton soup
 * Stottie cake – heavy, round bread
 * Toad in the hole – sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding
 * Toast
 * Baked beans on toast
 * Welsh Rarebit – hot cheese sauce on toast
 * Toastie – grilled sandwich
 * Tea
 * Yorkshire pudding

United States
American comfort foods may include the following foods:


 * Apple pie
 * Beef stew
 * Biscuits and gravy
 * Breakfast cereal
 * Burritos
 * Cake
 * Casseroles
 * Chicken and dumplings
 * Chicken fried steak
 * Chicken soup
 * Chili
 * Chili mac
 * Chocolate
 * Chocolate chip cookies
 * Chowders: Clam chowder, Shrimp chowder, Corn chowder, etc.
 * Cornbread
 * Corned beef and cabbage
 * Cupcakes
 * Fluffernutter
 * French fries
 * Fried chicken
 * Green bean casserole
 * Green chile stew
 * Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup
 * Grits
 * Hotdish
 * Ice cream
 * Lasagna
 * Macaroni and cheese
 * Mashed potatoes
 * Meatloaf
 * Peanut butter
 * Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
 * Pepperoni rolls
 * Pizza
 * Popcorn
 * Potato chips
 * Pot roast
 * Red beans and rice
 * Tamale pie
 * Tapioca pudding
 * Tuna casserole