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Headlines Making News 'Over There'
Aired February 20, 2004 - 07:51 ET
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JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: It's supposed to be the most important meal of the day, so why are the British giving breakfast the boot?
Let's go across the pond now for our regular Friday visit with my friend, Richard Quest, who is "Over There" in London.
Good morning, sir. What's up with breakfast?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Jack. I'm going to have to choose my words and show you things very carefully this morning. Soledad, look away.
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: It's about food, you can't watch.
QUEST: Absolutely. This could all get rather unpleasant. Listen, apparently we're catching something rather nasty from you lot. We are foregoing the English breakfast, and we're going for something called desk-fast (ph) instead. We're eating these sorts of things at our desk. It's got nuts.
CAFFERTY: You say that with such disdain, "these sorts of things."
QUEST: Well, come on, Jack. Would you really want to have this, when look what you could be having instead? Hey, careful, Soledad.
CAFFERTY: There you go.
QUEST: Hold it tight there. Hold it tight. I mean, you've got a choice at a proper English breakfast with all the trimming, or this rather...
CAFFERTY: Yes.
QUEST: Because, you see, we're so busy that we don't have time for this anymore. We munch our way through that. It really doesn't compare.
CAFFERTY: Well, when you get home you can feed that other plate in your left hand to the dog or cat. I understand that the British are developing a fixation with animals.
QUEST: We are. We've always loved dogs, but now apparently we have got something called the alternative nurturing experience. Instead of children, we are having pets...
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: Probably not a bad idea when you think about it.
QUEST: Well, I haven't got any -- I haven't gotten any...
CAFFERTY: Just ask her.
QUEST: Look, here we are.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: I second that.
QUEST: Here's the little -- here's the family.
CAFFERTY: All right.
QUEST: What we are doing, we are telling our little friends -- we are telling them about our achievements, little, little, little. We are buying them Christmas presents and birthday presents. And worst of all, we're leaving the television on. We leave the television, so that they don't feel lonely and unloved. And we call ourselves mommy and daddy to them.
CAFFERTY: There's huge profit in stuff like that, though, right? Stuff for pets? I mean, the economy spends a fortune -- billions and billions of pounds on little dogs and cats and things that pee on the rug.
QUEST: We buy them perfume, designer collars. We even buy them christening robes. We spend 5 billion. Now, look, we're a little island that you keep mentioning, Jack, 5 billion on little poochy, poochy, poo.
CAFFERTY: Thank you, Richard. Take those things for a walk, and I'll talk to you in a week.
Richard Quest "Over There" in London.
QUEST: Thanks, Jack.
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Aired February 20, 2004 - 07:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: It's supposed to be the most important meal of the day, so why are the British giving breakfast the boot?
Let's go across the pond now for our regular Friday visit with my friend, Richard Quest, who is "Over There" in London.
Good morning, sir. What's up with breakfast?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Jack. I'm going to have to choose my words and show you things very carefully this morning. Soledad, look away.
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: It's about food, you can't watch.
QUEST: Absolutely. This could all get rather unpleasant. Listen, apparently we're catching something rather nasty from you lot. We are foregoing the English breakfast, and we're going for something called desk-fast (ph) instead. We're eating these sorts of things at our desk. It's got nuts.
CAFFERTY: You say that with such disdain, "these sorts of things."
QUEST: Well, come on, Jack. Would you really want to have this, when look what you could be having instead? Hey, careful, Soledad.
CAFFERTY: There you go.
QUEST: Hold it tight there. Hold it tight. I mean, you've got a choice at a proper English breakfast with all the trimming, or this rather...
CAFFERTY: Yes.
QUEST: Because, you see, we're so busy that we don't have time for this anymore. We munch our way through that. It really doesn't compare.
CAFFERTY: Well, when you get home you can feed that other plate in your left hand to the dog or cat. I understand that the British are developing a fixation with animals.
QUEST: We are. We've always loved dogs, but now apparently we have got something called the alternative nurturing experience. Instead of children, we are having pets...
(CROSSTALK)
CAFFERTY: Probably not a bad idea when you think about it.
QUEST: Well, I haven't got any -- I haven't gotten any...
CAFFERTY: Just ask her.
QUEST: Look, here we are.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: I second that.
QUEST: Here's the little -- here's the family.
CAFFERTY: All right.
QUEST: What we are doing, we are telling our little friends -- we are telling them about our achievements, little, little, little. We are buying them Christmas presents and birthday presents. And worst of all, we're leaving the television on. We leave the television, so that they don't feel lonely and unloved. And we call ourselves mommy and daddy to them.
CAFFERTY: There's huge profit in stuff like that, though, right? Stuff for pets? I mean, the economy spends a fortune -- billions and billions of pounds on little dogs and cats and things that pee on the rug.
QUEST: We buy them perfume, designer collars. We even buy them christening robes. We spend 5 billion. Now, look, we're a little island that you keep mentioning, Jack, 5 billion on little poochy, poochy, poo.
CAFFERTY: Thank you, Richard. Take those things for a walk, and I'll talk to you in a week.
Richard Quest "Over There" in London.
QUEST: Thanks, Jack.
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