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11 Old School Comfort Foods You Rarely Find At Dinner Tables Today By Rowan Zeoli Nov. 18, 2025 2:40 pm EST

When you're having the worst possible day, there are few things that can help more than a warm plate of your favorite comfort food. A meal that maybe offers more emotional support than its nutritional benefits, comfort foods are steeped in nostalgia. Memories of a better time, when things were simpler (or at the very least, when you were younger). Specifically, a lot of old school comfort foods have origins in mid-century America, a time of imagined ideals as the country was on the tail of the Great Depression and World War II.

Most of these meals listed below also have origins in working class people struggling to make the most out of their meals — which means c

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