Barbara prepares "Fat Little Brother" Jeb's favorite childhood dessert

[kskiska]

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Unlike his older brother George, who has maintained a strict fitness regime during his time in the White House, Jeb Bush admits he has gained weight since taking office in 1999. A spokesman for the 52-year-old governor said he weighed 102kg (16st 1lb), almost 9.5kg heavier than the ideal

Governor Bush previously said that keeping his weight down was "kind of a struggle for me", and says he never gets enough exercise because he is driven everywhere for security reasons.

He was embarrassed in October when he compared pedometers with students at a Tallahassee school who had been challenged to walk 10,000 steps a day. His recorded only 735.

He is also partial to hearty portions of home cooking. In the Bush Family Cookbook, a US bestseller containing the first family's favourite recipes, Barbara Bush says she still prepares her son's beloved childhood dessert - baked peaches flambé with lashings of brandy and heavy whipped cream - when he visits the family's ranch in Texas.

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[Blue_In_AK]

1. What a coincidence!

Baked peaches flambe with lashings of brandy and heavy whipped cream was MY favorite dessert as a child, too. :sarcasm:

[kskiska]

2. Me, too!

When I wasn't eating Ring-Dings.

[Canuckistanian]

3. That story may need some translating

"st." = Stone, a measure of weight, exactly 14 pounds.

"kg" = kiloGram, a measure of weight equivalent to 2.2046226 pounds

[Spinzonner]

4. Time to start calling Jeb "Florida Fats"

[Kadie]

5. Bar = Barbara -

I first read it as Bar as in Pub. I was thinking jeb goes into a bar for dessert. LOL

[kskiska]

6. Fixed - thanks.

It was misleading.

[Kadie]

7. LOL

Could be just me, I am a little tired.

Would be a funny story though, jeb going into a bar for dessert. LOL

Still is a funny story. I think my favorite childhood dessert was snickerdoodles. I can't imagine the world these people come from.

[Punkingal]

8. Yep, you know Babs cooks it herself....

Gimme a break! I bet she never cooked anything in her life.

[Hello_Kitty]

9. 735 steps!?!? That's barely moving!

Seriously, a typical sedentary office worker can usually log around 5000. Does he get carried everywhere or something?

[MisterP]

10. peaches and BRANDY as a childhood favorite?

and we thought Chimpy was the drunken one, running over garbage cans and going "mano a mano" with Wimp Poppy afterwards

[fooj]

11. That was my first thought.

Yikes...:bounce: