Pizza Sauce = Vegetable

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Washington — Congress agreed this week to continue counting the tomato sauce on a slice of pizza as a serving of vegetables for federally-sponsored school lunches.



Institute officials also said that, because the new rules would have required pizza makers to use more sauce to meet nutritional content guidelines, the taste of newly reformulated dishes might be less popular with children.



Yummy!!

Washington Pizza Sauce Fight Has Deep Minnesota Ties

[kılıç_mehmet]

Tomatoes are not vegetables.
They are fruits.

[Phaedra]

Tomatoes are not vegetables.
They are fruits.

In the United States, tomatoes have legally been considered a vegetable since 1893.

[Zen Badger]

It's nice to know that while the economy and the rest of society is heading for a meltdown they've got time to worry about this.
It is a major issue afterall.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

How American,don't like the meaning of a word,so change it.

In law that's called 'the deeming principle'. One of the most famous (infamous?) examples is that a corporation is deemed to be a person . I guess deeming a sauce to be a vegetable is no big deal, as long as you understand it remains sauce.Sadly,a lot of people will not.

A lot of people are fucking stoopid (George Carlin)

I was thrilled to discover the pizza in Italy bears little resemblance to what they call pizza here and in the US

[Erinome]

I make mine from scratch. No nutrition nazi is going to keep me from my extra cheese/light sauce, damn it! I don't eat pizza to be nourished, I eat it to have a yummy in my tummy. If I want nutrition I eat what food eats... ya know, like salad and carrots and shit.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Tomatoes are not vegetables.
They are fruits.

In the United States, tomatoes have legally been considered a vegetable since 1893.

That's a long time in comparison with pizza.
Yeah, why even bother feeding kids things like that when you can feed them lahmacun..

[Erinome]

because we don't have that here. so how can we feed them that?

[HeyItsZeus]

This society is an intelligent one.

[kılıç_mehmet]

because we don't have that here. so how can we feed them that?

Well, I don't know why one should feed students anything in school.
I personally didn't eat anything at school, even though the school had a cafeteria. And it's not like the food is for free in American cafeterias, so I really wonder why the people are so worried where the students spend their money on.