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Wtf, tomato is a fruit
http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress...82033-Nov2011/American lawmakers have ruled that the amount of tomato paste in pizza sauce means that pizzas can be counted as a vegetable.
The bizarre move, which was decided in a vote on the annual spending bill for the Department of Agriculture, happened for purely political reasons.
The crucial bill had oversight over subsidised school meals, and the department was seeking to restrict pizza, chips and starchy vegetables from the menu for school children in a bid to combat child obesity.
MSNBC reports that politicians had been lobbied heavily by the frozen food industry who didn’t want to see a major revenue stream cut off given how often pizza is found on the menus of school canteens in the US.
School meals subsidised by the government are mandated to include a certain amount of vegetables and the Department of Agriculture’s plan would have pushed pizza-makers at least partly out of the school lunch business.
The salt industry, potato growers, and some conservative politicians who said that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in telling children what to eat, also lobbied against the change.
After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category.
Wtf, tomato is a fruit
Psst...don't tell the kids that or they won't eat it.
the same congress that thinks Obama is a Muslim from Kenya?
San Antonio just became a city who loves to eat a lot of vegetables. Go us!
5 pizzas a day
yeah !!!!!
I just had a salad with chesse and peperoni. delicious
So our Congress won't look each other in the eye long enough to try to fix our outrageous debt crisis....but they have time to pass bills ruling that french fries should be served in schools and that pizza sauce is considered a vegetable?
God bless America....because we're gonna need it.
I drink ketchup. It's part of my cross-fit diet regimen.
The good news about this? Pizza-flavored V8.
I'm outraged that pork hasn't yet been added to the vegetables list.
Just put two tablespoons of tomato paste on it.
Fusion is actually pretty good.
Shhhhhh!
Wait one f'n minute.
What about bread? Bousn't it count as a portion of bread as well?
I also want to know if my beer counts as bread. This is so important (not).
Yes, I love V-8 Fusion.
I drink at least 5 bottles a week.
Throw that in a blender with some ice and fruit. Tastiest way to get your vegetables ever.
Well...before pizza, that is.
i bought one of those juicers a couple of years ago. The kind where you didn't have to peel anything. You could throw almost any vegetable in there and make the juice taste pretty good by offsettting it with some kind of citrus fruit.
Congress is attempting to torpedo Herman Cain. He's no longer a savvy businessman, outsider candidate. He's a damn tree hugging, veggie peddling hippie.
I prefer to eat a whole fruit or have a real juice from a Juicer (with all the pulp) instead of drinking commercial fruit juice
Juices still have a lot of simple sugar, even the no added sugar ones
The fiber in whole fruits slows down the absorption of sugar
htf is pizza a vege, when the dough is made out of flour?
Pizza can't be a vegetable, it has seeds
Don't you think there are better issues to take up with congress?
The United States Department of Agriculture has been attempting to change the requirements for school lunches for the last couple of years. If Congressional votes take effect, then these modifications will not happen. School lunches are currently governed by the United States Department of Agriculture. However, rules permit French fries and pizza to be counted as veggies. Congress tries to block school lunch reform. Though the regulations would only technically affect free and reduced price lunches, which are government-subsidized, they effectively impact all school lunches.
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