Pizza is a vegetable

JoyousRen
JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
edited October 5 in Food and Nutrition
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.
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  • jenalderman
    jenalderman Posts: 411 Member
    I WANT to believe it...lol!:laugh:
  • tiedye
    tiedye Posts: 331 Member
    :'( this is just so sad
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    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? dunno.gif
  • emaline614
    emaline614 Posts: 86 Member
    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
    sara709 Posts: 170 Member
    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
    bsgillkc Posts: 32 Member
    *facepalm*
  • Marig0ld
    Marig0ld Posts: 671 Member
    Yeah, apparently it's because of the tomato paste. :huh:
  • vzucco
    vzucco Posts: 229
    I heard about this on NPR and it nearly made me puke. I want to know where are the lobbyists for vegetables?!
  • ogottwald
    ogottwald Posts: 60 Member
    Coming from congress I'm not surprised. What a bunch of Jack Wagons!
  • bruthacuervo
    bruthacuervo Posts: 52 Member
    Remember.. if politicians had it the way they wanted.. KETCHUP would be a vegetable.
  • SoCalSwimmerDude
    SoCalSwimmerDude Posts: 507 Member
    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
    SweetestHoney Posts: 95 Member
    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
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
    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
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
    But.....I always thought pizza is a vegetable.

    Are you telling me now that it's not? dunno.gif
    Quit being so difficult! It IS a vegetable. All that healthy tomato sauce!
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Add bit of mushrooms and green peppers and you don't have to eat anything else. :flowerforyou:
  • bear_nakey
    bear_nakey Posts: 340 Member
    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
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
    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
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
    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
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    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. :tongue:

    :flowerforyou:
  • LisaKyle11
    LisaKyle11 Posts: 662 Member
    lol.... my husband showed me this article this morning...
  • JoyousRen
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
    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. :tongue:

    :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_be_asin Posts: 562 Member
    It's just about the weekend here. I chose to believe pizza is a vegetable, at least until Monday ;)
  • mrshuerta11
    mrshuerta11 Posts: 12
    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
    Serenitytoo Posts: 449 Member
    But.....I always thought pizza is a vegetable.

    Are you telling me now that it's not? dunno.gif
    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
    directorj Posts: 537 Member
    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
    ixiHemlock Posts: 83 Member
    IMHO, public school lines are mills for obese young adults.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    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. :tongue:

    :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]

    :tongue:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    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. :tongue:

    :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]

    :tongue:

    Oh, I thought they were to cause hallucinations?:flowerforyou:
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    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
    madubil Posts: 131 Member
    i have a very convincing arguement for chocolate is a salad....
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