Pizza a vegetable?

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Risingblade

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plugav said:
Darkwhite said:
Can anyone enlighten me on this?
It's one big misunderstanding [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-congress-declare-pizza-as-a-vegetable-not-exactly/2011/11/20/gIQABXgmhN_blog.html], apparently.
So people are just overeating again it seems
 

Darh Abdomino

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I hear it was just political maneuvering so they could still sell pizza in public school. As a public school student who has to choose between frozen pb&j sandwiches, some sort of meaty paste, and pizza, I'm not complaining. Still going to mock though.
 

Gatx

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Is it really that "pizza" is a vegetable, or that the specifics about how much tomato sauce counts as a serving changed? I mean, it kind of just seems like a way to make the news sounds more ridiculous than it actually is.
Darkwhite said:
I know this is old news and been done to death but there is one thing I was wondering about this whole thing that I haven't seen mentioned. (I'm outside america so I don't know if this was explained in the news or something of that sort.) Pizza was declared a vegetable due to the Tomato paste but Tomato isn't a vegetable, how did this get through a government? Can anyone enlighten me on this?
While it isn't a vegetable, it's obviously made from . . . no wait, it's a trick question isn't it.

Anyway just because tomato paste/sauce/whatever isn't a "vegetable," it's still made from it, you're getting the same stuff that was in the tomato, more or less (plus preservatives and additive and what not but that's beside the point). That's like saying drinking carrot juice won't give you the same nutrition as eating the carrot used to make the juice (maybe you'd be missing out on some of the fiber, I guess).
 

SilentCom

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Aeshi said:
It makes the "-and they'd grow foods like Pizza" comment from Wall-E a lot more hilarious in hindsight.
Lol, I was about to joke that I grow pizza but I guess you beat me to it.