When you are sick, your comfort food is

I've almost completely lost my voice, but that of course should stand as no impediment to the dissemination of knowledge, which is my primary goal. So I got miked and gave my lecture in a husky "late night radio DJ" voice.

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

When you are sick, your comfort food is:

Soup, in increasing order of specificity:

• soup
• noodle soup
• ramen
• chicken noodle soup
• chicken noodle soup heavy on the noodles
• chicken noodle soup and ginger ale
• 
  

Other starches or sugary foods:

• bread
• crackers
• triangle toast
• cinnamon sugar toast + apple cinnamon tea
• cookie dough
• jello
• Skittles

Outliers:

• ginger
• beef rice pudding
• congee
• water with lemon juice and pulp
• water
• tofu

The most extreme outlier is "hot toddies" --- someone's family has adopted the same "use alcohol to burn out the germs" approach that I've heard bandied around by half-joking grandparents.

This post's theme word is leechdom (noun), "a remedy or medicine." What a wondrous panoply of leechdoms!