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Nancy Pelosi says ‘chocolate is good for your teeth’

By Chad Merda

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, sure loves her chocolate ice cream. So much so, she makes a bold claim to justify eating it for breakfast.

“Chocolate is good for your teeth,” she said. “It’s my cup of coffee.”

But what kind of chocolate ice cream gets her vote?

So the folks at Bloomberg Politics put her up to an ice cream taste test.

“Big Gay Ice Cream” didn’t make her cut.

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