Pizza is now a vegetable

[Terywj [태리]]

http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282033-Nov2011/

Thanks, U.S. Congress!

>combat child obesity
>obesity rates in the U.S.

lol

But hey, at least vegetarians can have Domino's, right?

 

[~ Gheb ~]

After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category.

lolamerica

 

[Terywj [태리]]

"Hey! Let's stop child obesity by removing pizza from school lunches!"
"Okay, but we're gonna classify pizza as a vegetable!"
"So we can put more pizza in school lunches?"
"YEAH!"

American logic FTW.

 

[theeboredone]

Tomatoes are fruits though?

 

[M@v]

To be fair, pizza can be healthy as long as you use good quality dough, cheese and, sauce, that isn't greasy AKA new york style.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Vegetarians could always have pizza, as long as they don't put meat toppings.

Vegans can't, unless they b******ize it into something unrecognizable.

 

[Vinylic.]

That is just idiocy.

They should've replaced pizza with lasagna.
Not officially calling it a veggie.

But whatever. School Boards, party on.

 

[Firus]

I love how Congress has such an aversion to productivity that they spend time declaring pizza as a vegetable to avoid actually accomplishing something.

This is stupid anyway, though. I understand trying to combat obesity, but I don't see the point in controlling what kids eat in school cafeterias. Children are only at school for one meal a day, five days a week...if kids are going to get fat, they're going to get fat, whether or not they have fatty foods in the cafeteria.

 

[GunmasterLombardi]

I love how Congress has such an aversion to productivity that they spend time declaring pizza as a vegetable to avoid actually accomplishing something.

This is stupid anyway, though. I understand trying to combat obesity, but I don't see the point in controlling what kids eat in school cafeterias. Children are only at school for one meal a day, five days a week...if kids are going to get fat, they're going to get fat, whether or not they have fatty foods in the cafeteria.

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/thread

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

That is just idiocy.

They should've replaced pizza with lasagna.
Not officially calling it a veggie.

But whatever. School Boards, party on.

Lasagna is nasty. I don't see how that would help anything

 

[Terywj [태리]]

To be fair, pizza can be healthy as long as you use good quality dough, cheese and, sauce, that isn't greasy AKA new york style.

And how many schools in America make pizza like that?

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

I wish they would have quoted the actual paper work that lead to this generalization.

I mean, what exactly did they say that implies or explicitly states this idea, "After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category."

And yeah, Tomato's contain seeds in them so they are a fruit.

 

[Laem]

I love how Congress has such an aversion to productivity that they spend time declaring pizza as a vegetable to avoid actually accomplishing something.

This is stupid anyway, though. I understand trying to combat obesity, but I don't see the point in controlling what kids eat in school cafeterias. Children are only at school for one meal a day, five days a week...if kids are going to get fat, they're going to get fat, whether or not they have fatty foods in the cafeteria.

Amen. Fatty's gon' fat. Congress did the right thing tho: pizza is just too tasty to get rid of :D

And yeah, Tomato's contain seeds in them so they are a fruit.

Wait is that what seperates the two?

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

We need to get soda classified as a vegetable, because I drank 5 bottles of soda a day back in school and I heard kids these days don't even have a coke machine in their schools.

No one should go without soda

 

[Life]

I love this thread.

^^

fruit   [froot] Show IPA noun, plural fruits, ( especially collectively ) fruit, verb
noun
*snip*
2.
the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.

My school's pizza is fairly good as pizza goes (provided you take off the pepperoni, of which there's only a couple slices).

 

[Glöwworm]

We need to get soda classified as a vegetable, because I drank 5 bottles of soda a day back in school and I heard kids these days don't even have a coke machine in their schools.

No one should go without soda

But there's no vegetables in soda! Unless you count High-fructose corn syrup a source of vegetables

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Man, the American government would flip if they read this thread.

 

[Anthon1996]

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

 

[theeboredone]

Dat Spongebob reference.

In any case, I don't understand how this will help kids. Cafeteria pizzas IMO have always been unhealthy. I know me and my friends would always do a "grease" test by applying pressure to pizzas with napkins to see how many got soaked.

Very disgusting.

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

Man, the American government would flip if they read this thread.

I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't flipped out over smashboards.

 

[fkacyan]

To be fair, pizza can be healthy as long as you use good quality dough, cheese and, sauce, that isn't greasy AKA new york style.

The implication that you need "healthy" ingredients for healthy food is ********. What you eat is actually far less important than your routines surrounding what you eat.

tl;dr "healthy diets" are bull**** and people just need to be more active in general, rather than looking for easy fixes like dieting.

EDIT: @Glowworm: Corn is a grain, not a vegetable, contrary to popular belief.

 

[Rickerdy-doo-da-day]

Technically it should be a fruit if they're using the tomato content to classify it

Or they should have just said it was 1 of your 5 a day
Or just not classify something like pizza to be in such a category...

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Technically it should be a fruit if they're using the tomato content to classify it

Or they should have just said it was 1 of your 5 a day
Or just not classify something like pizza to be in such a category...

The US Government classified tomatoes as a vegtable in the 1800's

 

[Keblerelf]

The implication that you need "healthy" ingredients for healthy food is ********. What you eat is actually far less important than your routines surrounding what you eat.

tl;dr "healthy diets" are bull**** and people just need to be more active in general, rather than looking for easy fixes like dieting.

EDIT: @Glowworm: Corn is a grain, not a vegetable, contrary to popular belief.

No. Your diet is the main factor that contributes to your performance and weight maintenance.

Healthy foods contain much more nutrients and fill you up more, while foods that aren't healthy do not have enough nutrients and tend to make you over-eat to become satiated.
Eating twinkies, pizza, and lucky charms all day while being active is inferior to foods like spinach, eggs, steak, and chicken. Sure, with calorie counting you can lose fat eating unhealthy foods, but that doesn't mean you aren't malnourished.

 

[FoxBlaze71]

This is like trying to decriminalize murder to lower murder rates.

The government does need to fix this though. Like half the people I see in my town are obese.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

This is like trying to decriminalize murder to lower murder rates.

The government does need to fix this though. Like half the people I see in my town are obese.

Try walking into a walmart

 

[Glöwworm]

EDIT: @Glowworm: Corn is a grain, not a vegetable, contrary to popular belief.

I see. Well, high-fructose corn syrup is comprised of other groups of corn syrups. This corn syrup can be made from potatoes as well. Though, yeah, corn is the one used more often. Pretty sure they use corn in soda so that makes what I just said irrelevant

 

[Spelt]

I would eventually like to see one of these articles not be taken completely out of context and turned into a ridiculous frenzy of sarcastic self-righteousness.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I would eventually like to see one of these articles not be taken completely out of context and turned into a ridiculous frenzy of sarcastic self-righteousness.

What's the point in that?

Than it'd just be another in millions of articles that no one cares about

 

[frotaz37]

This kind of thing is why life expectancy in the USA is so low when compared to other developed countries.

 

[Vinylic.]

Well, it's not that bad.

That will mean pizza's the only thing in school lunch.
The rest will be healthy foods.

 

[Mic_128]

This is stupid anyway, though. I understand trying to combat obesity, but I don't see the point in controlling what kids eat in school cafeterias. Children are only at school for one meal a day, five days a week....

They're also there for recess, and in the lower social economical areas, often breakfast as well.

if kids are going to get fat, they're going to get fat, whether or not they have fatty foods in the cafeteria

The point is, they're supposed to be taught the right thing at school. I've had teachers tell me after doing healthy food classes they've had parents come up to the teacher and talk about their kid coming home and refusing to eat dinner because it's unhealthy.

However if you're not going to bother trying to correct wrong behaviour, then yeah, they will stay fat.

 

[frotaz37]

The point is, they're supposed to be taught the right thing at school. I've had teachers tell me after doing healthy food classes they've had parents come up to the teacher and talk about their kid coming home and refusing to eat dinner because it's unhealthy.

Yeah, this is the way I see it too. It's all about teaching the kids what the right foods are and the importance of eating them, and it's pretty clear that in this country, that's not a priority.

Some of the conversations in this thread are pretty disheartening It just goes to show that even those who recognize the benefits of eating healthy are still extremely misinformed about what constitutes a healthy diet.

"Diet doesn't matter!!"
"Yes it does. Eat healthy foods like eggs, chicken, and steak!!"

America is doomed.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

The pleasures of Asian food and consistent exercise.

 

[Zook]

 

[CableCho57]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMkKFstqwY&list=FLiHUk0080oy19Pcn6a97TQw&index=11&feature=plpp_video

 

[Orboknown]

and instead of having the supercommitee get debt reduction done..
this happens.american political delaying at its best.

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

Does no one consider the idea that this article is bias in some way or misinformed?

The idea that anything with more than 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce is considered a vegetable is incredibly poor legislation even for congress. I'm still more inclined to think the person writing this article doesn't know how to interpret a legal document.

 

[Pakman]

This is the best argument I've heard on how to fight Childhood obesity in schools.

It is long but it really does a good job.

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[Attila_]

schools in the US should adopt the australian lunchtime policy: bring your own damn food from home.

a sandwich is the easiest thing for parents to make, and is pretty easy to be made healthy-ish.