Xceler8x
Xceler8x SuperDork
11/16/11 3:16 p.m.

Congress: Pizza Still Officially A Vegetable

From The Daily Beast said: Congress put its own unique spin on the food pyramid this week, declaring that tomato sauce on pizza still counts as a serving of vegetables in school lunches. The decision—tacked onto an agriculture spending bill—squashes an almost yearlong campaign by the Agriculture Department to make school lunches healthier. The campaign had argued that the volume of tomato sauce—and thus the nutritional value—should be measured before it’s mixed with water and spread on a slice of pizza. However, food companies lobbied Congress to the tune of $5.6 million to maintain the status quo.
failboat
failboat HalfDork
11/16/11 3:22 p.m.

I am more concerned that they are spending time actually debating E36 M3 like this, than what the outcome is. If you think that the pizza sauce is legitimately a vegetable serving, your a freaking idiot.

in other news, im suddenly craving pizza from my old highschool

oldsaw
oldsaw SuperDork
11/16/11 3:27 p.m.

That's small-potatoes stuff.

The good stuff is when you realize how the crooks on Capitol Hill accumulate wealth:

http://www.newsytype.com/13487-congressional-insider-trading/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/congressional-insider-trading-the-story-sticks-2011-11-16

It's illegal for a private citizen to engage in the same actions while those who wrote the laws are exempt.

fasted58
fasted58 SuperDork
11/16/11 3:31 p.m.

shoulda had a V8

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess SuperDork
11/16/11 3:58 p.m.

Mmmm. Pizza.

fritzsch
fritzsch Reader
11/16/11 4:01 p.m.

but do pizza bites count?

spitfirebill
spitfirebill SuperDork
11/16/11 4:02 p.m.
oldsaw wrote: That's small-potatoes stuff. The good stuff is when you realize how the crooks on Capitol Hill accumulate wealth: http://www.newsytype.com/13487-congressional-insider-trading/ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/congressional-insider-trading-the-story-sticks-2011-11-16 It's illegal for a private citizen to engage in the same actions while those who wrote the laws are exempt.

This is why we need to vote every one of the SOBs out. And add the sweet health insurance and retirement that they get for so litle serivce.

Marty!
Marty! Dork
11/16/11 4:48 p.m.

This is why we need Herman Cain. Because if anybody knows pizza, it's that man dammit. If he can't cram a whole servings worth of tomato sauce onto a slice of pizza and make everybody happy, who can?

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
11/16/11 4:53 p.m.

stuff like this.. and congress wonders why their approval ratings are in the toilet

carguy123
carguy123 SuperDork
11/16/11 4:54 p.m.

I know a vegetabletarian friend of mine who will be happy. He really misses his pizza.

SVreX
SVreX SuperDork
11/16/11 7:02 p.m.

My Jr. High School included "ketchup" under the category of "vegetable" on the official school lunch list sent home to parents under the Federally funded NSLP (national school lunch program).

That would have been about 1973. Long before the internet.

That's 19 Congressional cycles ago. Why should we vote them out now, if nobody has given a rat's behind for 19 election cycles?

Actually, since NSLP has existed since the Truman administration in 1946, maybe there are 32 separate election cycles at issue.

Oh wait, people like "free" stuff. I forgot. Carry on.

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
11/16/11 7:47 p.m.

more like "out of sight, out of mind"

DaveEstey
DaveEstey HalfDork
11/16/11 7:54 p.m.

My problem with it is that the Tomato is a fruit.

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