Origin and Characteristics of Comfort Foods

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Comfort foods typically originate from simple and affordable ingredients, are easy to prepare or inexpensive to purchase. An example is fish and chips in the UK, known for its battered and deep-fried white fish with fries, a dish considered as Britain's national comfort food.

Today on the show, we have two episodes from our daily podcast, The Indicator, about things we spend a lot of time thinking about this time of year: food and drink.

First up, we explore how changes in economic conditions led to one of the U.K.'s iconic (and affordable) staple foods becoming a luxury.

Then, the story of one Indigenous woman whose small business went head-to-head with Coca-Cola over a trademark dispute.

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