US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

woodoo

Big business rules america. Imagine classing dough with a fruit based paste and processed cheese as a vegetable.

God bless america...... and their fat children....

DominoDub

http://imgur.com/gallery/nU3Cq

28064212

karma_ wrote: »

This isn't really true at all, it is much like the 'curved banana' furore peddled by the idiotic redtops. The short answer is that the EU never reclassified carrots as a fruit.

Actually, they did. However, the part that the euroskeptics always leave out is that the reclassification includes the all-important disclaimer "for the purposes of this Directive". Meaning that the only place they're using fruit to include carrots is within this single standardisation, because it's easier than saying "fruits (and tomatoes, the edible parts of rhubarb stalks, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons and water-melons)" every single time

karma_

28064212 wrote: »

Actually, they did. However, the part that the euroskeptics always leave out is that the reclassification includes the all-important disclaimer "for the purposes of this Directive". Meaning that the only place they're using fruit to include carrots is within this single standardisation, because it's easier than saying "fruits (and tomatoes, the edible parts of rhubarb stalks, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons and water-melons)" every single time

Exactly, it was a directive because of the situation with Portugal, it was NOT a reclassification.

QI is great for this kind of nonsense.

Anyone

So pizza counts towards one of your 5 a day then? Sweet. Next they need to classify beer,tobacco and masturbation all as vegtables and I'll be all healthy.

Dotrel

Warning : Vegetables should only be eaten as part of a healthy balanced diet.

sensibleken

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

You're not going to believe this, but...they actually passed laws in some states making it mandatory to teach creationism in schools.

So the kids learn that humans started with Adam & Eve, then in the next class they study biology and learn about evolution.

It was the same here when I was in school. One minute your in religion being taught god made the world and the next your being taught about astronomy and science. Quickly accelerated my scepticism of religion anyway

ScumLord

Brendog wrote: »

How does tomato sauce make it a vegetable? Based on that logic if I cover myself in feathers will I be considered a bird?

Close enough for After Hours. How you doin'?

tricky D

Reminds me of BRAWNDO - The Thirst Mutilator in Idiocracy. Next they'll start insisting on putting electrolytes into water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04

Hey look on the bright side, when they all die from diabetes we can invade them!

theteal

Wertz wrote: »

I'll bet Jamie Oliver is crying into his pesto.

is he still over there trying to pitch his healthy sh!t to tubby kids?

I would really like to see the episode made after this news came out just to see his head explode

Wertz

1,337 posts at 13.37 ?

You've won a cookie. Don't worry, it's homegrown.

Paddy Cow

theteal wrote: »

is he still over there trying to pitch his healthy sh!t to tubby kids?

I would really like to see the episode made after this news came out just to see his head explode

No. The show crashed and burned. They didn't know who he was and they didn't care about his agenda.

Miss Olenska

I always think Jamie looks a bit too doughy, pasty and generally unhealthy to be preaching about healthy food.

Jay Zus

So pizza is now classed as a vegetable in America? Does that mean a double- bacon cheeseburger + fries counts as 4/5 a day of RDA fruit??

ringadingding

In fairness though, most Irish kids eat from centra deli counters.

The queue of young people waiting to eat a frozen baguette full of ingredients supplied by the cheapest bidder makes me uneasy.

Real home made food for the win.

TheUsual

Pizza a vegetable ?


Duh, everyone knows it's a fruit !

earpiece

Ahhhhhh, this is why China is the worlds biggest economy..... they know their Veg.

JohnMarston

First time hearing about this. They can't be serious.

I mean i know they like their food over there but that's taking the mick.

There isn't a facepalm powerful enough to equate my feelings on this

viclemronny

K-9 wrote: »

It's free choice, the free markets at it's best. Corporations will act in the greater good.

Sarah Palin speaks sense.

Its a government subsided meal. They were lobbied by an industry, not a small firm acting as a price tasker in a relatively competitive market. They manipulated the law to suit their own ends using the threat of roundel of political funding as leverage.

That's not anything close to a free market system.

senorwipesalot

Miss Olenska wrote: »

I always think Jamie looks a bit too doughy, pasty and generally unhealthy to be preaching about healthy food.

He looks like he dribbles on the grub.

Pace2008

karma_ wrote: »

I realise that the US is really a corporate oligarchy, still, you would think they would be a little less brazen than they actually are, incredible.

Brazen is right, man.

What appears on the surface as a zany filler story is actually pretty scary when you think about. I have no time for the whole NWO conspiracy rubbish, but this really shows who's calling the shots in the US, and they're not afraid to show it when their profit margins are threatened.

FFS, if I slather a bit of purée on a Mars Bar, batter it and deep fry it, does it count towards my 5-a-day?

Wertz

No but a deep fried snickers might...

starlit

Your serious, its all dough!?

opinion guy

The fantasy of democracy in the US grows ever more tragic/hilarious when you haear stories like this. Place is run by corporations.

K-9

viclemronny wrote: »

Its a government subsided meal. They were lobbied by an industry, not a small firm acting as a price tasker in a relatively competitive market. They manipulated the law to suit their own ends using the threat of roundel of political funding as leverage.

That's not anything close to a free market system.

And industry will suddenly act ethically in a free market, yeah right.

woodoo

I was healthy today i had my 5 a day.... 5 slices of delicious pizza and some chips. Here's to health eating.

LighterGuy

So the ultimate question is how much in kickbacks did the US congress get from the american pizza companies?

ShooterSF

K-9 wrote: »

And industry will suddenly act ethically in a free market, yeah right.

What do you mean ethically? As in it will try and get kids to eat healthy? Not a chance. And it shouldn't. Up to the individual and in the case of minors, their guardians what they eat. Can kids not bring packed lunches?

K-9

ShooterSF wrote: »

What do you mean ethically? As in it will try and get kids to eat healthy? Not a chance. And it shouldn't. Up to the individual and in the case of minors, their guardians what they eat. Can kids not bring packed lunches?

They can. Its the culture in America. Bad and all as it is here the US is far, far worse. An advertisers and corporations dream. Jamie Olivers programme about it summed up the difference in attitudes.

ShooterSF

But that's the parents fault to be fair. Businesses are there to try and make money and the state should keep it's nose out, unless it want's to actually hold the parents responsible.

K-9

ShooterSF wrote: »

But that's the parents fault to be fair. Businesses are there to try and make money and the state should keep it's nose out, unless it want's to actually hold the parents responsible.

Some parents are thick ShooterSF, such is life and corporations don't give a feck.

psychward

It sounds like the real vegetables are sitting in Congress

John Doe1

I could be wrong here but they do have an education system in yankeeland?

Deki

psychward wrote: »

It sounds like the real vegetables are sitting in Congress

This I believe.
altho a few years back they said catsup could be considered a vegetable.

Schools are required to serve a vegetable at lunch, so if they can call the tomato sauce the vegetable and the crust the bread and the pepperoni the meat and the cheese the dairy- there's your whole meal. Most school cafeterias make their own pizzas it isn't brought in but is made according to government standards. :P it is nothing like Dominos or Pizza Hut.

Kur4mA

The protest opportunities from this could be amazing. I have visions of college idiots smearing themselves in tomato paste and picketing with signs reading "I am pizza".