gingerberad cookies and being nice...

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Hi all,As this is the first weekend of advent, time has come to start feasting on all the Christmas goodies. Such as gingerbread cookies, for instance, and glögg of course (warm wine drink, traditional Christmas thing in Sweden, I've bought six different kinds this year). In Sweden there is a saying that eating gingerbread cookies will make you nice - of course an excellent argument for any kid wanting more: "Mum, I don't think I'm nice enough yet, I probably need more gingerbread cookies"... To which the retort of course is: "Enough already, there IS such a thing as too nice. You don't want to be a complete doormat, do you?" I was wondering if other parts of the world has that saying too? Anyway I bought a kilo (about 2 pounds) today, so me and will probably be complete and absolute doormats come end of advent... love/Reb