US Congress Declares "Pizza Is A Vegetable"

[Iuuvic]

Are they mixing it in the sauce or is it the sauce?

There's a big difference between paste and sauce. I could see 1/4 cup of sauce per slice, but tomato paste is that very thick stuff that comes in small cans that you use by the tablespoon. There are four tablespoons in a quarter cup (59.2 mL for those of the metric persuasion).

So they are just addng more paste to the sauce?

Because alot of pizza sauces are just tomato paste watered down and mixed with some other ingrediants. Especially the cheap ones, which I would bet the schools use.

Actuallly, first time I ever tried to make pizza I thought the sauce was just tomato paste...That was a bad pizza, I used 2 (6 ounce) cans because I thought that one can was just too tiny.

[Sedgistan]

-has always thought americans were thich and usless fat swine-

Hi. You're new, but that doesn't excuse you from following the rules. What you're doing there is trolling - and you're getting an unofficial warning for it. Anything similar in the future will likely get you an official red-text warning. I'd therefore recommend that you have a read through the rules.

[Tekania]

Ooh I see.. the almighty Wikipedia wisdom, I can do that too:

In biology, a "fruit" is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. Taken strictly, this definition excludes many structures that are "fruits" in the common sense of the term, such as those produced by non-flowering plants (like juniper berries, which are the seed-containing female cones of conifers.

All hail Wikipedia.

Tomatoes are fruits, no matter how you want to define it, they are.

"Culinary" bla bla has nothing to do with it, Tomatoes are fruit.

And I still find the US Congress... utterly silly...

Culinary has everything to do with it... as we're talking a culinary/nutrition issue, not a botanical one. As this issue never seems to come up about other botanical "fruits" such as cucumbers, chilies, squash or green beans we can see this is really nothing more than people trying to be smart-asses and failing miserably at it.

[Mosasauria]

Because high fructose corn syrup and salt mixed with a small amount of tomato paste is obviously a vegetable.

[Arkinesia]

I think the requirement for tomato paste counting as a vegetable should be bumped up but in principle it largely is.

However one slice of pizza from a typical cafeteria shouldn't count—the amount of oil in most cafeteria pizzas is sickening. There should be an oil limit for it to still count as a vegetable.

[Swimmiteria]

Really?

Really?

[Nightkill the Emperor]

What the fuck.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Because high fructose corn syrup and salt mixed with a small amount of tomato paste is obviously a vegetable.

Because tomatoes are even vegetables.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Because high fructose corn syrup and salt mixed with a small amount of tomato paste is obviously a vegetable.

Because tomatoes are even vegetables.

You're in Puerto Rico, so technically it's now a vegetable there as well.

[The Corparation]

Because tomatoes are even vegetables.

You're in Puerto Rico, so technically it's now a vegetable there as well.

Actually its been a vegetable in the US and its territories for a while now. Its a poster-child of what lobbying can do. I for one though am glad as this new guideline means that my pizza is part of a balanced and healthy diet cause its got veggies in it.

[Greed and Death]

Because tomatoes are even vegetables.

You're in Puerto Rico, so technically it's now a vegetable there as well.

The supreme court long ago ruled Tomatoes to be a vegetable.
Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893)

[Talislanta]

Source

Is the majority of US congress full of republican idiots? Maybe idiot republican is a pleonasm.

[Eternal Yerushalayim]

Is that your problem? Since when did the law determine what science considers as a vegetable?

[The Rich Port]

Is that your problem? Since when did the law determine what science considers as a vegetable?

If this is what Congress does when it's bored 'cuz, you know, there's absolutely nothing else to talk about, I might also have a little problem with it.

Not too badly, but I still have a problem with it.

[Arkinesia]

Does ANYONE consult PolitiFact these days? Fuckin' kids.

[The Rich Port]

Does ANYONE consult PolitiFact these days? Fuckin' kids.

Oh... Oops.

Well, hold on a second... Two teaspoons of tomato sauce count as a vegetable? REALLY?

[Hellenic Protectorates]

Does ANYONE consult PolitiFact these days? Fuckin' kids.

You actually expect NSG not to explode into baseless, anti-Republican sentiment at the drop of a hat?

You must be new here. Fact or fiction, if someone says Republicans did something stupid, it's as good as true on NSG.

[Dracoria]

Why should anyone bother to check the facts first? Much of the media spun this like crazy for a couple days, after all.

And if you read the article, that much tomato paste does stand up favoraboly to other vegetable and fruit servings in terms of nutrition.

[The Rich Port]

Does ANYONE consult PolitiFact these days? Fuckin' kids.

You actually expect NSG not to explode into baseless, anti-Republican sentiment at the drop of a hat?

You must be new here. Fact or fiction, if someone says Republicans did something stupid, it's as good as true on NSG.

Ahem...

The marginalization of the schools and the hospitals bothers me, not whether Republicans suffer irony at the hands of generalites.

[Hellenic Protectorates]

Why should anyone bother to check the facts first? Much of the media spun this like crazy for a couple days, after all.

And if you read the article, that much tomato paste does stand up favoraboly to other vegetable and fruit servings in terms of nutrition.

>Surprised when American media spins and de-context-ifies Republican action to demonizing effect.

Lolwut?

[Hellenic Protectorates]

You actually expect NSG not to explode into baseless, anti-Republican sentiment at the drop of a hat?

You must be new here. Fact or fiction, if someone says Republicans did something stupid, it's as good as true on NSG.

Ahem...

The marginalization of the schools and the hospitals bothers me, not whether Republicans suffer irony at the hands of generalites.

Aw, you're very mature, aren't you? My point stands.

[The Soviet Technocracy]

Is that your problem? Since when did the law determine what science considers as a vegetable?

Vegetable is not a scientific term, so the law actually does determine what a vegetable is.

[The Rich Port]

Ahem...

The marginalization of the schools and the hospitals bothers me, not whether Republicans suffer irony at the hands of generalites.

Aw, you're very mature, aren't you? My point stands.

Whatever side I'm on, it's not theirs. They can get Creeper-roll'd for all I care.

[Hellenic Protectorates]

Aw, you're very mature, aren't you? My point stands.

Whatever side I'm on, it's not theirs. They can get Creeper-roll'd for all I care.

Gotta love blind partisanship.

[The Rich Port]

Whatever side I'm on, it's not theirs. They can get Creeper-roll'd for all I care.

Gotta love blind partisanship.

... Like I said, WHATEVER SIDE I'M ON.

I don't like the Democrats, either, if that's what you're implying.