Pizza is a vegetable

JoyousRen

just ask congress: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobbyists_n_1098029.html
I challenge any of you to say "Pizza is a vegetable" with a straight face and believe it.

jenalderman

I WANT to believe it...lol!:laugh:

tiedye

this is just so sad

Thomasm198

just ask congress: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobbyists_n_1098029.html
I challenge any of you to say "Pizza is a vegetable" with a straight face and believe it.

But.....I always thought pizza is a vegetable.

Are you telling me now that it's not?

emaline614

just ask congress: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobbyists_n_1098029.html
I challenge any of you to say "Pizza is a vegetable" with a straight face and believe it.

I read this yesterday and i swear my jaw fell to the floor. siiiiigh.

sara709

I'm a teacher at a primary school. The things some of my students' parents believe about food is even more ludicrous than that article. *sigh*

bsgillkc

*facepalm*

Marig0ld

Yeah, apparently it's because of the tomato paste. :huh:

vzucco

I heard about this on NPR and it nearly made me puke. I want to know where are the lobbyists for vegetables?!

ogottwald

Coming from congress I'm not surprised. What a bunch of Jack Wagons!

bruthacuervo

Remember.. if politicians had it the way they wanted.. KETCHUP would be a vegetable.

SoCalSwimmerDude

This falls in line with what I had been trying to explain to my mom my entire childhood: That Pizza contains each of the major food groups.

Veggies: tomato sauce & toppings
Grains: crust (close enough)
Dairy: Cheese... and lots of it
Protein/Meat: Meat Lovers Supreme please

Somehow, I always knew that one day my genious would be recognized... and finally, the congress is coming around and agreeing with my former 10 year old mind.

SweetestHoney

I saw that on CNN.com today. It's so sad. I do like pizza piled high with veggies but saying pizza counts as a veggie just because oft he sauce is ridiculous.

JoyousRen

I heard about this on NPR and it nearly made me puke. I want to know where are the lobbyists for vegetables?!

Not as well funded!

JoyousRen

But.....I always thought pizza is a vegetable.

Are you telling me now that it's not?

Quit being so difficult! It IS a vegetable. All that healthy tomato sauce!

arewethereyet

Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:

bear_nakey

I heard about this on NPR and it nearly made me puke. I want to know where are the lobbyists for vegetables?!

*love NPR* and yes, I heard to, all I can say is if Pizza is now considered a vegetable, then this country is in a downward spiral to death by morbid obesity. Now how the HELL am I going to explain this one away to my preteen. Thank you, congress.

JoyousRen

Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:

I do love a good vegetarian or supreme pizza...

JoyousRen

I heard about this on NPR and it nearly made me puke. I want to know where are the lobbyists for vegetables?!

*love NPR* and yes, I heard to, all I can say is if Pizza is now considered a vegetable, then this country is in a downward spiral to death by morbid obesity. Now how the HELL am I going to explain this one away to my preteen. Thank you, congress.

That sometimes people don't always use their brains?

Thomasm198

Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:

Mushrooms? Mushrooms aren't a vegetable, they're a fungus.

:flowerforyou:

LisaKyle11

lol.... my husband showed me this article this morning...

JoyousRen

Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:

Mushrooms? Mushrooms aren't a vegetable, they're a fungus.

:flowerforyou:

Yeah.. the whole tomato isn't a vegetable. It's a fruit arguement in the comment is amusing. Fruit is a botany term. Vegetable is exclusively a culinary term so it is correctly classified as both. I believe that mushroom is the same way, both a veggie and a fungi. Sorry, Thomas. :flowerforyou:

it_be_asin

It's just about the weekend here. I chose to believe pizza is a vegetable, at least until Monday

mrshuerta11

I've always though the same too!!:laugh:

This falls in line with what I had been trying to explain to my mom my entire childhood: That Pizza contains each of the major food groups.

Veggies: tomato sauce & toppings
Grains: crust (close enough)
Dairy: Cheese... and lots of it
Protein/Meat: Meat Lovers Supreme please

Somehow, I always knew that one day my genious would be recognized... and finally, the congress is coming around and agreeing with my former 10 year old mind.

Serenitytoo

But.....I always thought pizza is a vegetable.

Are you telling me now that it's not?

Quit being so difficult! It IS a vegetable. All that healthy tomato sauce!

But you can get pizza with alfredo or cream sauce (instead of tomoato)... if you have no veggies in your toppings how would this one count? :huh:

directorj

So technically vegetarians can now eat a meat lovers pizza right?

Logic :

Vegetables are healthy

Carrots are vegetables

Pizza is now a vegetable

Meatlovers is a type of pizza

Carrots and Meatlovers pizza are vegetables which are both healthy

ixiHemlock

IMHO, public school lines are mills for obese young adults.

Thomasm198

Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:

Mushrooms? Mushrooms aren't a vegetable, they're a fungus.

:flowerforyou:

Yeah.. the whole tomato isn't a vegetable. It's a fruit arguement in the comment is amusing. Fruit is a botany term. Vegetable is exclusively a culinary term so it is correctly classified as both. I believe that mushroom is the same way, both a veggie and a fungi. Sorry, Thomas. :flowerforyou:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

The noun vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant.
However, the word is not scientific, and its meaning is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Therefore, the application of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. For example, some people consider mushrooms to be vegetables even though they are not plants,[1][2] while others consider them a separate food category.[3]

arewethereyet

Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:

Mushrooms? Mushrooms aren't a vegetable, they're a fungus.

:flowerforyou:

Yeah.. the whole tomato isn't a vegetable. It's a fruit arguement in the comment is amusing. Fruit is a botany term. Vegetable is exclusively a culinary term so it is correctly classified as both. I believe that mushroom is the same way, both a veggie and a fungi. Sorry, Thomas. :flowerforyou:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

The noun vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant.
However, the word is not scientific, and its meaning is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Therefore, the application of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. For example, some people consider mushrooms to be vegetables even though they are not plants,[1][2] while others consider them a separate food category.[3]

Oh, I thought they were to cause hallucinations?:flowerforyou:

Grokette

I heard about this on NPR and it nearly made me puke. I want to know where are the lobbyists for vegetables?!

We are out here but we get drowned out by the Con-Agras, Cargills, Monsanto's of this country.................They have all the $$$ and the Power.

If people want to force the change then you have to stand up and VOTE with your $$$$$

$$$$$ speaks louder than anything else in this country. Stand up to the likes of the government, the USDA, FDA, General Mills, Kraft, Kelloggs, etc and tell them NO.

Demand the change.

As long as I see grocery carts filled with Coca-Cola, Boxed Cereals, Hamburger Helper, Heaping piles of frozen and other packaged meals you will continue to see votes like this come out of Congress.

madubil

i have a very convincing arguement for chocolate is a salad....