- Nancy Pelosi said that her college days were spent "stealing ice cream" from the dining hall.
- The US Speaker of the House of Representatives said she went to a strict women's catholic college.
- Speaking on the "River Cafe Table 4" podcast, she said she now eats ice cream for breakfast.
Nancy Pelosi says she would sneak into her college dining room at night to steal ice cream, and she now has it for breakfast.
Speaking to host Ruthie Rogers on Tuesday's episode of iHeartMedia's "River Cafe Table 4" podcast, the US Speaker of the House of Representatives said she has a long-standing enjoyment of chocolate ice cream.
The 81-year-old congresswoman said that her early memories of the frozen dessert began when her brother brought vanilla ice cream home for her but she disliked flavor and hid it under her bed. Later in life, when she attended Trinity College, the oldest Catholic women's college in America, located in Washington, D.C., Pelosi said she and her friends would sneak into the strict college dining hall to steal ice cream.
"Our college it's not exactly a culinary delight," she told Rogers, adding: "We used to go in the middle of the night down to the dining room and break into the freezer to get ice cream." She confirmed that, years later, the college now knows about her habit.
"Now it was locked, so you could only lift it a little bit and put the scooper in there and pull it out," said Pelosi, recalling her methods. "It's hard to tell a flavor in the dark, but you could tell if it's chocolate or not, but peach, strawberry, and the rest that kind of come together."
Pelosi also told Rogers they would order a pizza to distract the guard, while the others would steal the ice cream.
Rogers asked the Democratic politician, who has served as US representative for California since 1987, according to her website, about rumors that she eats ice cream for breakfast now.
"No, it's not an urban myth. It's convenient — it's right there, it has a long shelf life, you don't have to worry about it," Pelosi said, adding that unconventional breakfast is "a great way to start the day."
Pelosi has previously spoken about her love of chocolate ice cream, appearing on The Late Late Show With James Corden on April 14, 2020, when she showed off the impressive collection of flavors her family has in the freezer.
Pelosi faced criticism for showing her high-end fridge at the time, which the New York Post priced at $24,000, filled with $13 pints of Jeni's ice cream. According to Politico, she faced backlash from Republicans and was featured in an attack ad by the Trump campaign which claimed it was insensitive to the economic devastation caused by COVID-19.
The publication added that Pelosi addressed Trump's criticism in an interview on MSNBC in April 2020. Politico reported that she told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace it was less harmful than Trump's suggestion to use disinfectant to fight the virus: "I have ice cream in my freezer. I guess that's better than having Lysol in somebody's lungs, as he was suggesting."