Comfort food is simple familiar food eaten for the feeling it gives. Cook some comfort food.
What counts depends entirely on what somebody ate as a child, which is why it never travels. Comfort food works on memory rather than on taste.
1nouncomfort foodSimple familiar food eaten for the feeling it gives.
“His comfort food was toast and nothing else.”
comfort food is food.
Comfort plus food; the phrase is first recorded in an American newspaper in 1962.
From comfort + food. First use appears c. 1962 in the Independent (Pasadena, California).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Smell & Taste