comfort foods

i thought i'd follow up the 'i am not a fat activist' post with a post about food, it seemed appropriate somehow...

right now i am sick. sick sick sick sick sick. what started as a mere cough progressed through to a head and chest cold.

which brings me to the topic at hand...

are there foods that you only eat when you're sick? or that at least figure more prominantly when you're sick...

for me it's something that i must have been given as a child when i was sick, i only ever think to make it when i'm sick and when i'm sick i almost always have it.

it's soft boiled eggs and a slice of toast cut up in a cup. it's delicious and it's somehow comforting. and i only ever think to have it when i'm sick. which is particularily odd when you think how easy it is.

basically you toast a slice of bread, you boil a couple eggs, you butter the toast (or you don't butter the toast and just put the butter you would have put on the toast right in the cup where it will melt and coat the bread anyway.) and rip it up into little bite sized pieces (actually, i cut it this time, but it used to always be a ripping thing in the past) put them in the bottom of the cup, then take your soft boiled eggs, crack them open and let the yolk pour over the bread (it will soak in and be tres yummy) then chop up the whites, add some salt and grind some pepper over the thing then mix the whole mess up, and voila! the perfect comfort food.

but probably only the perfect comfort food because it was given to me as such initially. it's all about context i guess.

so, do other people have this kind of thing, food that they need/crave/want when they are sick, or am i just a weirdo?