What would happen if Santa ate all the cookies, milk?

What would happen if Santa ate all the cookies that kids left him on Christmas Eve?

Every year on Dec. 24, he spends the night globe-trotting, delivering presents to good little children. In exchange for gifts, the children usually leave Santa a treat of appreciation.

Children in the United States typically leave Santa cookies and milk (and carrots for the reindeer), but in other countries, he might have mince pie, rice pudding, small cakes or even a Guinness beer waiting for him in each home.

If every household left Santa two chocolate chip cookies with a nice cold glass of 2 percent milk, what would happen if he ate them all?

Although you might leave different kinds of cookies, let’s calculate this with the basic chocolate chip cookie. Nestle Toll House cookies have 6 grams of fat and 120 calories per cookie. With10 grams of sugar and 3 grams of saturated fat and 0 grams of fiber, these cookies aren’t going to do much — nutritionally speaking — for Santa.

If each of the households celebrating Christmas — perhaps half a billion people if you only count Christian households with children under 14 — leave Santa two chocolate chips cookies and an 8-ounce glass of milk, by the time Santa has finished making his deliveries, he will have consumed almost 106 million liters of milk and about 8.9 million cookies.