Insider Finance - Business - I ate like Nancy Pelosi for a week

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“I followed Nancy Pelosi's diet of breakfast ice cream and hot dogs for a week.”

When Nancy Pelosi announced she was stepping down from Democratic leadership, Insider’s Sophie Kleeman homed in on one small, yet important, detail: what Pelosi planned to eat for lunch that day. It was a hot dog, which the 82-year-old says she eats daily.

This morsel of information sent Kleeman down the rabbit hole of what Pelosi eats, which resembles what Kleeman described as the diet of a “a wealthy toddler with zero parental supervision.” We’re talking chocolate ice cream for breakfast. Hot dogs. Doughnuts. Every type of pasta. Jerky.

So Kleeman decided to do what any good investigative journalist would do: immerse herself in the experience of her 82-year-old subject and follow Pelosi’s diet for a week. The end result is an epic journey you have to read to believe.