The Best Comfort Meals When You’re Sick, with Luke Tsai

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

One of the smaller cruelties among the many tragedies of the COVID pandemic is that the virus’ attack on the sense of smell and taste has robbed us of one of the few pleasures of being sick: delicious comfort food. It’s a symptom that doctors say seems to be less common with omicron. So as the new variant stampedes through the Bay Area, we’ll talk with KQED food editor Luke Tsai about our favorite foods to eat when we’re sick or in need of comfort. This is the first installation of a new regular segment with Tsai: he’ll join us every other week to dig into the many food cultures of the Bay Area. We want to hear from you: Whether from your kitchen or ordered as takeout, what do you eat when you’re sick? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.1	There are two things that I associate with getting sick,
0:45.1	reaching all the way back to when I was a little kid.
0:47.2	Old school sweatpants with a little elastic around the ankle.
0:50.2	And, of course, egg McMuffins.
0:53.0	Yes, when I was sick and my mom let me stay home, who's probably listening, hi, mom, we often
0:57.4	grabbed an egg McMuffin, and those McDonald's memories are enough to still make me want
1:02.5	an egg sandwich now when I get sick.
1:05.7	Today, as Omicron stampedes through the Bay Area, we're talking about the comfort foods that people crave across countries and cultures with KQED food editor, Luke, Sy.
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