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pelagius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:45 PM
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The Pope eats cookies for breakfast
No, this isn't some gratuitous Catholic-bashing thread getting underway. It's a statement of fact.

ABC posts this report:

...

"The Holy Father spent a night of tranquil rest. This morning he ate breakfast with a good appetite. The post-operative situation continues regularly. He is breathing on his own and his cardiocirculatory condition remain good," Navarro-Valls said.

Navarro-Valls said the pope's breakfast included coffee with milk, 10 cookies and yogurt.

...

http://www.nbc10.com/health/4233295/detail.html
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:47 PM
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1. He's 84 years old, give him a break. NT
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:49 PM
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2. My son once had pie and ice cream for breakfast..
His rationale?

Pie is kind of like cereal..and ice cream is kind of like milk :)

He was 10, and that was his logic at the time :)
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:50 PM
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4. When you're 84, you're allowed the same logic.
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 05:51 PM by NYCGirl
:evilgrin:

Edited to add: With the amount of sugar in most packaged cereals, pie and ice cream is perhaps the better choice!
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:52 PM
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7. You are right.. It was homemade pie and real ice cream
:)
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pelagius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:53 PM
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9. Hey! I'm all in favor of cookies for breakfast!
And cake, too! In fact, my wife and I have certain cakes we think work really well for breakfast. (German chocolate is high on the list.) If you can scarf down a sweet roll to start your day, why not cookies!

Wonder how soon some organization of dieticians will publish a statement on this burning issue?
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:50 PM
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3. I heard it on my local news too---
If I were his age and as sick as he is I'd eat anything I damned well wanted to,when I wanted to, and the hell with a balanced diet.

Go for it,John Paul !
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:50 PM
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5. Duplicate-sorry
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 05:51 PM by candy
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:51 PM
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6. I think they mean something other than cookies
Italians often eat dried toast things for breakfast -- we would call them melba toast, like the stuff given to teething toddlers. They're shaped like biscotti, but they're very plain.

When I visited Italy with my first husband years ago, his relatives usually ate these toast things plain, with cups of powerful thick espresso. They thought I was peculiar for wanting to put butter and jam on them, but they were so dry I honestly could not eat them otherwise.
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pelagius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:00 PM
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11. I think you're right...
...this CNN article states the Pope had "ten small biscuits" for breakfast:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/25/pope/index.html
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:53 PM
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8. I've got the flu...
I ate cookies and drank black coffee for breakfast.
I'm also Catholic, but only 43. Is the point here that Catholics whom are ill do not eat nutritious breakfasts?
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pelagius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:55 PM
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10. I suggest an elective tracheotomy! :-)
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:06 PM
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12. Because I'm generally upbeat and positive...
I'm going to assume you really meant to suggest that I take a NSAID, that also has antipyretic properties, for the aches and fever... cookies will provide a little protection for my stomach.
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pelagius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:08 PM
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15. Well, yeah...
...that's what I really meant, but then I would have missed out the opportunity for a lame joke!

Hope you're feeling better soon. And, yes, cookies are what you need!
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:21 PM
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17. I would send you..
one of those little waving smiley faces (it would be munching a cookie and have an ice pack on it's head)---but alas, I have no idea how to include those little things. So please just imagine it.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:07 PM
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14. I don't know about the others
but if the Pope, at his age and with a tracheotomy, is capable of eating those rock-hard biscuits, I take my hat off to him.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:06 PM
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13. When I'm 84 I'm having hot fudge sundaes for breakfast. n/t
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:09 PM
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16. Gee. Another reason to LOVE him as a human being.
Thank you.

I'll bet he even dunks his cookies in milk (my all-time favorite).

Bless the man for wanting to heal a broken world the best way he could.

Bless him.
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