Creature comforts, meaning “material comforts,” may sound like a newfangled term, but it goes back at least as far as the 1640s. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Those Old Familiar Creature Comforts”
The other day, somebody mentioned the term creature comforts.
This term for material comforts like food and clothing and accommodation goes back at least to the 1640s.
Oh, so not quite Shakespeare.
Yeah, I mean, it might be in Shakespeare, but I don’t know.
But I was just very surprised.
It seemed like something that some journalists came up with for a lifestyle magazine or something.
Creature comforts.
The way we talk about it.
So creature comforts are the things that satisfy the animal within.
Yeah, yeah, the creature within.
But who knew it was that old?
So the lizard brain likes the hot sun and the mammal likes the warm blanket.
And the food, right?
And the food, right, yeah.
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