The Comfort Food People in Illinois turn to After a Break Up

Couples have been breaking up for as long as there have been couples. When this occurs, people deal with it in different ways. Some throw themselves into their work. Some pick up a new hobby, others turn to food. Maybe not as a lifestyle change, but to comfort the hurt.

Bags of Break-Up Popcorn?

In Illinois, according to Mental Floss, the comfort food that people who've just broken up turn to is...popcorn? This doesn’t sound right. Yes, Illinois loves its popcorn, that is true. But, is popcorn the salve people seek out to help cover up the hurt of a breakup?

Big Bowl of Break-Up Ice Cream

Some of the other comfort foods that people turn to include: ice cream -- who hasn’t walked past the quirky pints to bury their sorrow in a gallon bucket of fudge twirl ice cream. In Missouri and Iowa, the breakup crutch is cookie dough. Just raw dogging a tube of cookie dough with chocolate chips in it –That move screams “I’m depressed”.

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The list of breakup foods across the country is comprised of candy, cake, pizza, donuts, burgers, mac & cheese, grilled cheese, potato chips, cookies, tacos and waffles too. I’m not saying that a full-on binge happens with these comfort foods, but they are what we will turn to make ourselves feel better for a little while.