my favorite food is meatloaf.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Meatloaf is a dish of ground meat mixed with other ingredients and formed into a loaf shape, then baked or smoked. The shape is created by either cooking it in a loaf pan, or forming it by hand on a flat pan. Meatloaf is usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used. Meatloaf of minced meat was mentioned in the Roman cookery collection \"Apicius\" as early as the 5th century. Meatloaf is a traditional German, Scandinavian and Belgian dish, and it is a cousin to the Dutch meatball. American meatloaf has its origins in scrapple, a mixture of ground pork and cornmeal served by German-Americans in Pennsylvania since Colonial times. Meatloaf in the contemporary American sense did not appear in cookbooks until the late 19th century. In the Turkish cuisine there is a meatloaf with vegetables dish called \"dalyan k\u00f6fte\".\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "What comes to your mind when you think of comfort foods? In my opinion meatloaf is pretty tough to beat."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Meatloaf is great.  Mac and cheese is good too."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That sounds like a good combination. I don't know how people survived without it - it didn't really make its way into cookbooks until the late 19th century."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I did not know that.  Do you mix pork and beef for meatloaf?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It depends on how busy I am or if I have the meat on hand. I've done meatloaf with lamb, pork, veal, all kinds of meat. Poultry and seafood can even be used, although that's pretty rare."}, {"role": "user", "content": "A bit of shrimp in a meat loaf would be good.  I also put a hard boiled egg in middle"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That sounds pretty good too! The best thing is you can make it any way you like. In Turkish countries they serve a meatloaf-like dish with vegetables called dalyan kofte. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Maybe I will try brussell sprouts in meat loaf.  I love them"}]