Our Long National Nightmare is Over: Congressional Republicans Push to Declare Pizza a Vegetable

In a move that would make any six-year old at the dinner table proud to be an American, congressional Republicans have finally started the push to declare that, for the purposes of having a healthy school lunch that includes vegetables, pizza should be considered a vegetable. This isn't just a victory for kids that refuse to eat broccoli, it's a victory for everyone that would rather have greasy, overly processed fast food as the centerpiece of their nutritional diet.

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This is where crony capitalism has lead our country, to places so absurd that our ability to parody them has been surpassed. As a result, children are left to enjoy vegetables like pizza, and, presumably, fruit like strawberry ice cream and whole grain like brownies.

So what is your favorite kind of vegetable? Four meat? Supreme? Cheese? I like the chicken and garlic variety of vegetable, myself.

 

This is right up there with the Regan administration declaring ketchup a vegetable.

To my eyes its verging on being criminally irresponsible.

What we need to be eating a lot more of – throughout the world – is fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fish and vegetable oils.

While Pizza can be made in a healthy manner, there is almost ZERO chance that what we are talking about here is highly refined and processed garbage. More effort needs to make real food cheaper while weaning ourselves off the processed crap that is killing us.

 

That's cause you're a hippie vegetarian.

 

the salt industry is a group of corporate persons too yes? maybe they even have little corporate person children who are sent to corporate person schools who are more than happy to eat fries. and besides, it's in keeping with the family bidness. same with the children of the frozen pizza corporate persons. the idea that the interests of meat-based persons outweighs those of corporate persons is...well....unamerican.

 

435 in the House
100 in the Senate

but they're gonna have to spilt them with those damned Democrats

 

Mmmmm .. healthy vegetables!



In the same vein, on Monday, Congress passed an appropriations bill that considers a tablespoon of tomato paste as a serving of vegetables.

Lobbyists from the American Frozen Foods Institute also persuaded them to strike out other school lunch regulations, such as restrictions on sodium and servings of starchy vegetables.

 

My son won't eat school pizza. He believes it's made out of recycled landfill.

I thought tomato was a fruit?

 

And congress wonders why they have a single digit approval rating?

The media should be exposing the people who were bought off by the packaged pizza and potato (French fries) lobby.

The again, the GOP needs unhealthy kids to miss out of life and become disgruntled middle age guys to vote for them.

 

I'm still trying to figure out what this is. They call it fruit but it tastes like corn syrup. Any ideas?

 

tomato? a fruit? not since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

the official definition of fruit cocktail is on page 41:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/quality_fruit.pdf

 

So it is ruled.

Fruit cocktail - fruit that is fruit made to taste not like fruit but something other than the can it came in. Much simpler and cheaper than fresh fruit when school boards are looking for ways to cut budgets. But it's still fruit, like pizza is a vegetable.

 

I don't think there's any dairy involved in that chemical waste product they put on top and call "cheese product" or some such nonsense.
And I know people love to bash Reagan but this is being done by Congresspeople of both parties and a liberal president.
It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with legalized corporate bribery of politicians.

 

Dude, Reagan thought ketchup was a veggie. Of course he also thought trees produced more pollution then cars. Cons and science have never been very good friends.
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I like to consider a bloody Mary a decent breakfast once and while, hope they don't decide to go that route. Teachers might like it, mellow out the drones and all. But of course the cost of the vodka will probably keep school boards from ever trying it.