The Pope eats cookies for breakfast

[pelagius]

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

[NYCGirl]

1. He's 84 years old, give him a break. NT

[SoCalDem]

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 :)

[NYCGirl]

4. When you're 84, you're allowed the same logic.

:evilgrin:

Edited to add: With the amount of sugar in most packaged cereals, pie and ice cream is perhaps the better choice!

[SoCalDem]

7. You are right.. It was homemade pie and real ice cream

:)

[pelagius]

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?

[candy]

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 !

[candy]

5. Duplicate-sorry

[LiberalEsto]

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.

[pelagius]

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

[etherealtruth]

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?

[pelagius]

10. I suggest an elective tracheotomy! :-)

[etherealtruth]

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.

[pelagius]

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!

[etherealtruth]

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.

[LiberalEsto]

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.

[Vinca]

13. When I'm 84 I'm having hot fudge sundaes for breakfast. n/t

[Just Me]

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.