While there is a lot of commonality across generations when it comes to comfort food there are also some surprising differences Mediapost summarizes some of the findings from a study of comfort food generational trend mapping. Everybody likes sweets, especially ice cream, but women like them more. Boomers like braised meats, casseroles, peanut butter and popcorn. Gen X likes fast foods and packaged cookies. Gen Y like burritos and ramen noodles.