I just got off the phone with a good friend, completely non-political

[DainBramaged]

"you'd know, what's this shit about pizza being a vegetable?"


Well, some politicians think that by making pizza a vegetable, they get their friends in the frozen pizza business on the school lunches menus and feed the kids more crap than they would usually get while benefiting their friends.


Are you fucking kidding me?


No look it up


That's just fucking stupid., who's behind it?"


Uh, some Republicans.

"How do they get away with this shit?"


Because they have expensive lobbyists


" I'll show them what kind of a vegetable pizza is when I shove it up their asses, my kid's school puts pizza on the menu, the school board gets voted out".


I think a new activist was just born......and yes I could have spent hours explaining how the school board has to folow federal guidelines, but as Otter said to Blutarsky, forget it he's rolling....

[postulater]

1. Here's the Politifact on that.

I don't know if Politifact is considered reliable here but here's what they say.

"But is this the great Reagan ketchup debacle?

The same amount of ketchup, according to the USDA, sneaks in about 10 times the sodium, contains just a third of the protein, less than a tenth of the fiber and more carbs and sugar. It offers smaller traces of vitamins, and half the beta carotene and lycopene. Tomato paste is not ketchup.

Still, frozen pizza manufacturers and the frozen food industry did push hard to keep the vegetable designation for the tomato paste on the pizza. When it does, that's one less vegetable the school has to buy and a cheaper deal for school districts.

Fewer vegetables for kids may not be exactly a win for America. But did House Republicans try "to classify pizza as a 'vegetable' for the purpose of school lunches"? They did fight for the classification for the sauce on the pizza and blocked a move by the Obama administration to boost the amount of tomato paste needed to count as a serving of vegetables. But they didn't try to classify "pizza" as a vegetable. And even the amount of tomato paste required, just two tablespoons, packs nearly the nutritional punch of a half-cup of other foods we consider healthy. That's a pretty important detail to omit. We call the Democrats' claim Half True."


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/democratic-national-committee/republicans-pizza-vegetable-school-lunch/

[DainBramaged]

3. Pizza isn't made in nature, pizza is man-made and I call bullshit on the Pukes

Can you plant a pizza and make more little pizzas next season? Can you make pizza as a side to meat or fish? And is pizza rinsed before cooking? Can you boil pizza?


I rests my cases.....LOLOL.

[gkhouston]

4. Two tablespoons of tomato paste has nearly the nutritional punch of 1/2 cup of other healthy foods?

Seems unlikely that 2 tablespoons of a substance which often contains HFCS has nutrients roughly equivalent to 4 times that much of a "healthy" food. What does "nearly" mean? Which healthy food? And which nutrients? And what about the sodium and sugars in the tomato paste and in the crust it sits on?

[roseBudd]

2. moms don't play lead in their kids toys or melamine in pet food either