Pizza a vegetable?

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mcnally86

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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?
Tomato it taxable by vegetable tariff. At least that's why it was originally designated one. Why if we ever decided to be taxable as a veggie had to do with its spot on a dinner table.
 

Something Amyss

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trollpwner said:
Hehehehe. Yeah! You know why the communist flag is red?

APPLES, I TELL YE!

Apples and tomatoes! They must be evil, because they're not in the bible!

*snort*
The USSR's "sickle and hammer" flag is, in fact, a pizza cutter.

It's amazing how the soviet invention of pizza infiltrated America with its guardians none the wiser.
 

Yopaz

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Name me one vegetable. Seriously, try to name one.
Broccoli is a flower. Cabbage is a flower, and funny enough, broccoli is a mutated cabbage. Potato is a modified root. Onion is a modified root.

Nothing really is vegetables. Vegetable is a label used to describe edible plants. It's not valid in any sort of taxonomy, but used for simplicity.
 

plugav

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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.
 

Something Amyss

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shameduser said:
I heard it was pushed though by some food lobbyists so pizza could be served for school lunches and count as a serving of vegetables.
Continue to be served, that is. They're already being served. New regulations would have done away with or limited that and frozen food groups didn't like that so they lobbied for effectively an exception.
 

Altorin

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the blocked rule (read: The rule that DIDN'T go into effect, IE, nothing really changed) would have required pizza manufacturers who provide school lunches for those school that choose to follow the guideline to count their pizzas as having less vegetable content. In order to make up the difference, they just would have added more tomato paste, because like it or not, tomato paste is actually fairly nutritious.

How it stands currently is that an eighth of a cup of tomato paste is counted as having the nutrition of a half cup of vegetables - and it's really kind of hard to argue - "half cup of vegetables" is a really weird thing to measure to begin with, but if we even try to measure it against a favorable opponent, the fresh vegetables are MOSTLY water when compared to the paste, which contains almost no water.

So congress didn't declare pizzas as vegetables, or even make any real changes that involve pizza, they only decided against adjusting a rule that makes sense. Nothing changed with the pizzas. While I don't personally think that pizza is "health food", there are CERTAINLY worse things to eat, and there's not much better for kids to eat that they're actually going to be excited to eat.

Could the pizzas be better? more nutritious? of course, but if you completely remove the concept of pizza as a viable option just because it can be greasy and bad for you, then, you just have fun eating your twigs.

Nothing changed. Learn what happened before you decided to make stupid threads about stupid things that were misunderstood to begin with.
 

Something Amyss

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trollpwner said:
But....but...that's not possible! The republicans would never support something so evil! They're Fox News's God's chosen!
They support Christmas, even with its champion Santa Claus. I mean, making billions of toys for free? Giving them away to good children? SOCIALISM!
 

penguindude42

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If pizza is a vegetable then America is a country.

OH WAIT, NO THEY ARE NOT. YOU FAIL! YOU GET NOTHING!
YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR/MADAM!
 

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JesterRaiin said:
More wiser than me answered that vital problem. :)

http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/57

...and that;s the bottom line FTW.
Thank you!! :p

I still want that image as a tshirt too! I think it would work so well!
 

Kynreave

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If Pizza is a vegetable, then I decree that Muffin is an element and should be therefore added to the periodic table.
 

Moonlight Butterfly

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This quote from a site that was linked in the old thread pretty much explains my views on it.

This entire thing is so far beyond stupid. No, congress did not say "pizza is a vegetable". They said "The tomato paste on school lunch pizzas counts as a serving of vegetable". That is the stupid part. It doesn't make a pizza something healthy to eat, at least when compared with, oh, I don't know, a bowl of salad?
Remember those Kraft Ranch commercials where they say "There's a place where kids love their vegetables", and then it shows them dumping buckets (I am using that term liberally) of Kraft ranch dressing on their vegetables, basically completely counteracting any sort of health benefit they would get from them? That's what happens when you put tomato paste on a pizza and say that "The paste is a serving of vegetable". You've pretty much killed any sort of health benefit you may have gotten from that paste.
The fact that they are trying to make out like something remotely near a pizza is healthy for the kids is the real hilarity.
 

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BlueSinbad said:
America a idiot?
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I think I've answered your question. (Grammatical errors intended)
Wrong! America desperate.

See, cafeteria food here in America is shit. Like, maybe if you're not American you think your cafeteria food sucks, but you're wrong it's fucking delicious and you're just a whiner. So like, all they can get the kids to eat is pizza. But pizza is officially recognized as junk food, and parents don't like schools giving their kids junk food because they expect the school to raise their kids for them. So they declared the sauce equal to one serving of vegetables so they could say "See we're giving them vegetables for real man get off our backs!"