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Originally Posted by Tobi
I was raised in the north of England where we had bitter winters, and we knew all about "comfort food".
We had some "reet good" puddings! Some of them were very nutritious. Plum or apple pudding for instance....with custard.
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I have never heard of plum or apple pudding. That sounds amazing.
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Originally Posted by Tobi
My Dad used to say "a good pudding should really stick to your ribs"
(no one was fat by the way.) I guess it was just so freezing cold that we needed the calories. But what a treat!
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I can definitely understand the 'comfort food' context being where you were.
I just get the sense that more often then not, our society (at least in the US) places such a value on eating and comfort above any real meaningful connection.
Fried chicken, Mac and Cheese, Bacon double cheeseburgers are what pass as a good times for so many people. Stores bombard us with excessively high calorie, super tonnage packaging of excess. I want to buy a couple of items at the store without being blasted as soon as I walk inside, by this weeks 2 for 1 cookie explosion.