Pizza is a vegetable

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  • JoyousRen
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
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    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
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    It's just about the weekend here. I chose to believe pizza is a vegetable, at least until Monday ;)
  • mrshuerta11
    mrshuerta11 Posts: 12
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    IMHO, public school lines are mills for obese young adults.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    i have a very convincing arguement for chocolate is a salad....
  • daffodilsoup
    daffodilsoup Posts: 1,972 Member
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    They are turning the next generation into beanbag chairs with eyes. This ruling makes me embarrassed to be an American.
  • Kksd605
    Kksd605 Posts: 74 Member
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    They got it totally wrong!

    Pizza is a food group. FDA just needs to add it to the pyramid now!

    LOL :laugh:
  • heykatieben
    heykatieben Posts: 398 Member
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    Yeah. They didn't say it's a vegetable, but that it counts as a serving of vegetables. I could see that as a possibility if I were making the pizza, covered in spinach, peppers, mushrooms... but definitely NOT if modern school pizzas look anything like the square flat cheese-covered highly-processed thing I remember.

    Disappointing. Michelle Obama, where are you??
  • daffodilsoup
    daffodilsoup Posts: 1,972 Member
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    Yeah. They didn't say it's a vegetable, but that it counts as a serving of vegetables. I could see that as a possibility if I were making the pizza, covered in spinach, peppers, mushrooms... but definitely NOT if modern school pizzas look anything like the square flat cheese-covered highly-processed thing I remember.

    Disappointing. Michelle Obama, where are you??

    It's considered a serving of vegetables because of "the tomato paste".
  • Dragongrl
    Dragongrl Posts: 186 Member
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    Mmmmmm... Pizza....
    If pizza is a veggie then I guess it's possibly a meat, dairy, and/or grain, too. It's all good.
  • RunLiftEat
    RunLiftEat Posts: 213 Member
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    Thats just as ridiculous as when chefboyardee was promoting their canned garbage as having a full serving of vegetables in every can.
  • skpresley20
    skpresley20 Posts: 177 Member
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    yeah, darn skippy it's a vegetable. A vegetable with enough sodium, starch, and fat to kneel anyone over if eaten enough. This is why when my daughter goes to school, I'm packing her lunches. She's 7 months and we've already got her started with eating the correct foods.
  • AmeChops
    AmeChops Posts: 744 Member
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    They should start serving cauliflower pizza crust...then it'll all be fine :-D
  • Biggipooh
    Biggipooh Posts: 350
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    Just throw the crust, the cheese and the meats away and there you have it, your veggies or whatever is left of it. Looks yummie too.
  • Dragongrl
    Dragongrl Posts: 186 Member
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    Just throw the crust, the cheese and the meats away and there you have it, your veggies or whatever is left of it. Looks yummie too.

    :noway: That's no fun!

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