Cookies and milk left out for Santa is Christmas Eve tradition that I like to follow in the event that Santa stops by and wants a snack as he travels the world delivering presents. I even set aside a few of the prettier cookies I decorated a day or two before to make sure I have some to leave out. Of course, he doesn't usually seem too interested in the cookies and I end up eating them myself on Christmas morning. Cookies left out overnight can, in my opinion, be deemed "leftovers" and, thus, are appropriate breakfast food. USA Today says that 48% of people who leave snacks for Santa leave both cookies and milk. I am among the 29% that only leaves cookies, not because I believe Santa is lactose intolerant, as the makers of Lactaid would have me believe, but because milk left out overnight is not very appetising in the morning. If he didn't eat the cookies, Santa probably wasn't very thirsty anyway.
[Photo by Nicole Weston]
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12-23-2005 @ 1:41AM
Taylor said...
Those look delicious.
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12-23-2005 @ 9:10AM
B said...
We always leave milk and cookies, plus a carrot or two for the reindeer. Don't forget about the reindeer, they're the ones who have to haul Santa's sleigh around, and after eating 3-4 cookies each in 6 billion homes, he must really heavy.
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12-23-2005 @ 10:19AM
Nicole Weston said...
Ha, ha! I think you're probably right about that, B.
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