0 the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried, often sweet food or food that people ate as children --
She runs home to find comfort food.
Home-cooking may be associated with comfort food, and some commercially produced foods are presented through advertising or packaging as having been home-cooked, regardless of their actual origin.
Sweet treats and comfort food on a massive scale predominated her paintings.
Critics described the record and band as the musical equivalent of comfort food.
Your chicken sandwiches were our comfort food through the primary season, and heaven knows there were days that we needed a lot of comfort.
Some adults enjoy chocolate spread sandwiches as a comfort food.
This is film as comfort food, and not the gourmet kind.
I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food.