"The food writer M. F. K. Fisher (1908–1992) called milk toast a "warm, mild, soothing thing, full of innocent strength", and wrote, of eating milk toast in a famed restaurant with a convalescent friend, that the dish was "a small modern miracle of gastronomy".

My choice.

How Cornbread and Milk Became a Beloved Southern Snack.
"As with many regional foodstuffs with a small footprint, at the mention of Cornbread and Milk, people either get a faraway look of reminiscence, or get a look that says they want to stay far away. Fair enough, perhaps, but when talking about food traditions, it's important to remember a dish or recipe that's weird to people who've never heard of it isn't weird to those who grew up eating it. "

The Mr.'s choice.

It is very possible our origins directed these choices. My family comes from Tulsa by way of St. Louis. The Mr.'s family comes from Middle Tennessee near the Kentucky border.

My Mother rarely made cornbread. The Mr.s Mother probably made it weekly, at the least monthly.

Both are great comfort foods.