So I can have 5 pizzas a day? Sweet! Thanks America!!

I just put two table spoons of tomato sauce on the dog, does this mean he’s a vegetable?

Is the tomato classed as a fruit?

So a pizza is a vegtable because it has tomato sce and a tomato is a veg because its on a pizza?
I’m guessing the Kids are winners in the end though, who needs fruit or veg they have pizza – which is now both!

Tomato is a fruit though…..

Only in America!

What a load of shit, but just goes to show how these lobby group’s have the real power. Money talk’s, pizza walk’s

Pizza a Vegetable!! :-D
We’ve heard it all now…

Just for clarification; Obama tried to make school lunches healthier.
This is what the Republican congress did to his proposed bill.

so does this mean pizza hut is not a health food restaurant?

Look at the vegetables passing the laws and it becomes clear.

Great!

Give me 2x 12 inch Pepperoni to start and 2x 16 inch Meat Lovers for my main!!

Hold the Tomato Sauce.

Are Cigarettes a vegetable?

Got to my 5 a day.

Pizza: wheat flour (refined sugar and gluten – an increasingly common allergy) and melted cheese (high in fat and because it’s the states – rBGH, an endocrine disruptor), classed as a vegetable because it has “tomato sauce” (which usually is quite low on actual tomato content), in a country which doesn’t even realise how fruit and veg are distinguished..

Sadly, it’s no wonder they have such an obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic..

If pizzas are vegetable then that’s great. Ill go out and plant them in my garden

When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, thats A…… Oh no wait..

This is an early April fools.. Right?

Time for one of my five a day so.

Will somebody please think of the Children……

The Republican led congress are determined to over-rule any proposed law suggested by Obama. This is just another example.

Just take a look at their recent action and you’ll see what I mean.
They’re fucking lunatics. Seriously. Just watch what they do. They act like spoiled children.
Any bill Obama tries to pass, no matter how good it is, is immediately shot down.
The worst thing is that their ‘Brown envelope’ culture is actually legal in the form of lobby groups.

Another move by Corporate America to ensure they keep the money flowing, feeding off disadvantaged (usually Mexican) kids who’ll get diabetes by the time they’re 12. Watch Jamie’s Food Revolution it shows how sick the system is.

Sweet. That means a bloody Mary can count as part of my five a day too now!

Wait a minute…They’re basing the entire argument on it being a vegetable on the tomato.

Someone would want to get onto them there because a tomato is a fruit.

In Jason McAteer eyes if the pizza is cut into 5 it covers you for your 5 a day:)

Other countries are laughing at us right now. This is so embarrassing.

Who are we to laugh?
In Ireland a Square is legally a Circle.
Look at the legislation governing that square insurance “disc” on your car windscreen:
“The Disc shall be Rectangular”.

The power of K Street. The Wall Street occupiers are on the wrong street.

So is tomato a fruit or a vegetable, i am confused. Sherri McMillan can you help me please!

Aw guys you never go full retard!

And the moon is a star…..!!!

Now all the tobacco companies have to do is balance the tomato content in the cigarettes … And all those restrictive laws dissipate, it’s backwards we are all headed. Lead by the emblem of the republican party… A donkey or complete ass if you will.. Majority House Rule…

wow thats great ,ill just go down the kitchen and drink half bottle of tomato ketchup and that means i have my 5 a day,great news !!!!!

tomatoes are fruits not vegetables…… not only did they label pizza as a vegetable but they dont know their fruits from thei vegetables…… our government sucks….

This shows us that in USA money talks.

Jamie will be beside himself with dispare

Does that mean if I eat three tablespoons of tomato sauce I too can be a vegetable?

Next month Congress debates the difference between their asses and a hole in the ground.

Is there no end to the stupidity of the Americans?

Tomato was a fruit, but became a vegetable due to their high content of tomato sauce.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Show me the pizza tree!!

And Barak Obama is clearly a potato!

Stupid Americans. Everyone knows pizza is Italian.

No wonder they have an 8 percent approval rating. (Didn’t make that up by the way, look it up)

AFFS

Jamie Oliver won’t be happy !

From the country that brought you McDonalds and the senseless high school massacre…………………

Ah, I see … a Bloody Mary is a vegetable, therefore we should go ahead and serve it in schools (that should make recess pretty interesting, don’t ya think?) and we could, according to this, chop up a little pot and mix it with two tablespoons of marijuana, and it also becomes a vegetable, and therefore we could serve that too. WTF?

I dont really care if pizza is classed as a vegetable or not, everyone knows it isn’t. What really bothers me about this is that it plainly says in the article that congress is passing this law because it would mess up a revenue for frozen foods producers. How fucked up is that? Thats what the whole occupy wall street thing is about, companies being able to hand politicians money and tell them what to say. That really bothers me because it just kinda proves congress is listening to the companies more than the people.

hey all,
the whole thing just makes me see red.we say tomato,they say tomato.lets call the whole thing off.onion caught his girlfriend kissing his friend tomato.onion gave tomato a good kicking.tomato was burst open and in a very bad way.the ambulance brought him to the hospital.when onions girlfriend arrived,the doctors told her they able to save him,but he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life.
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but they are okay banning chips – a root veg!

Seriously?? There are no words : /

obviously total nonsense but if they are going to make that ruling based on tomato content then it’s worth noting that a tomato is a frekin FRUIT!

Congress is full of $h!t! It’s obvious that people in the pizza industry (mainly those providing them to schools) have friends in very high places. What’s funny is that the People just sit back and accept asinine shit like this.

I tell ya’…#Occupy is on to something and we’re all too stupid to see it.

What Obama should do to fight child obesity is to ban xbox live 3 days a week and make those kids get off their lazy asses

Any excuse to dig this out again:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4b3db30df0/herman-cain-sings-imagine-there-s-no-pizza?rel=player

So if I put 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce on a slice of cheesecake then the cheesecake is a vegetable? Or on ice cream? Or on a hershey bar? or how about a slab of devil’s food cake with chocolate buttercream icing? If I hide a can of tomato sauce in the cake recipe does that make a slice of cake a vegetable? This is the stoopidest thing I’ve ever heard.

another reason to eat pizza

if pizza is a vegetable, then gyros (the Greek souvlaki) is a salad!! LOL

what’s funny is that tomato isn’t even a vegetable

Wow seriously? This is move supposedly has a monetary motive. What about the amount of money that will be lost due to paying these children’s health care bills when they start getting type 2 diabetes at an early age? This will just allow the ongoing increase in childhood obesity. I can’t believe some of the things our Congress does…

Congress have joined the elite by becoming a easily bribed bunch of greedy feckers. I mean if they can use the system to increase there own wealth then the system isn’t working. The main lobby groups will give working groups or committees various amounts of pre iPo stock which they then hold on to till the company goes public, it’s ridiculous. I mean this just shows how corrupt the US system has got although we have another corrupt system our selfs with the European commission which is easily influenced by lobby groups and it is non elected officials. However I don’t think Irish or Europeans would allow pizza to become a vegetable. Only in America…. It’s amazing how congress get away with it, the mind boggles.

This cant be serious?

Well, besides the fact that this idea is clearly STUPID, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

…tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables. Really makes even less sense than they think

soooooo…. they’re saying i could add 2tbsp of tomato paste to 1 cup of horse shit and it would legally be a vegetable.

*shrugs*

couldn’t taste worse than your average school menu item.

my sister moved to france. her two kids get hot lunches provided by the school. proper, hot cooked lunches – meat, two veg, and a starch.

why does north america have such difficulty with this concept?

A few years back they tried to say ketchup was a vegetable.

This Sherri McNugget woman is a r-tard. Botanical? And culinary definitions? Please. .

You find a tomato in nature, it is a fruit. No matter how you use it, it doesn’t change DNA.

Yes Sheri, all living things have DNA, that is called science.

When cooking with a tomato it’s DNA doesn’t magically change, just because, “it’s used like a vegiatable”, it is still a fruit. There is not “culinary” definition calling a tomato a vegiatable. They are just used LIKE one.

So please stop being a mouth breathing senator or represenitive, and define yourself as being a large brained mammal.

(sry for any typos)

Why don’t you keep pizza on the school lunch menu, but charge a lot more for it? If these kids want to eat themselves to a fat, sweaty death, they should have to pay for it. I’m sure lobbyists will love the idea of more money.

So why leave out spaghetti, lasagna or any other freakin dish that has tomato sauce or paste in it. Also what about chicken alfredo pizza? Maybe we should label that kind of pizza in the dairy category. Or even better, let’s just say that pizza is a well rounded meal containing all the nutrition one needs to survive.
No wonder we’re 12 trillion dollars or something in debt, we got these nimrods taking care or our money.

Allowing for the fact that burgers contain quite an amount of soya pulp, they are likely to be soon counted among vegetables too. And it doesn’t matter whether soya beans are classified as legume, oilseed or pulse.

this is a clear example of the influence of corporatism in our legislative system. so corporate sponsored lobbyists, in efforts to keep pizza on the menu convince legislators within the federal government to classify a food made from bread, cheese, and a spread made from fruit (tomatoes are indeed considered a fruit), as a vegetable. wow, do these guys really believe this stuff?!!

Thejournal got onto failblog!
http://failblog.org/2011/11/18/epic-fail-win-i-can-actually-hear-the-school-children-cheering/?fb_ref=like&fb_source=profile_oneline

ha… all this effort just to keep pizza in the school lunch rooms.

^.^ Thanks to congress I had all vegetables for dinner tonight. Started with some pasta, but that wasn’t enough vegetables for me, so I put a few tablespoons of the pasta sauce- made from tomatoes(which is a fruit) on my roll, and turned IT INTO A VEGETABLE! Yes, Tomorrow I might turn some BEEF into a vegetable too! YES! Congress has bridged the gap between meat eaters and Vegans! You can turn any hamburger into a vegetable just by putting this mirical fruit onto it! kootoes congress! KOOTOES!

I still don’t understand the concept behind this!!

Tomato is a fruit then how could a pizza be a veggie?? It’s because the tomato is being used as a vegetable in this case (I have no clue)

I did a bit of research and found an article to support my statement
http://lobobrandon.hubpages.com/hub/Tomato-fruit-or-Vegetable
There’s a nice cartoon video regarding whether the tomato is a fruit or vegetable.

Well…I suppose this is a win for the Ninja Turtles! lol

Actually the point of the headline has been missed. The writer clearly knew that people would be more likely to read an article with this sort of headline than one that said congress chooses money over kids health or any thing similar. Many would just look at that and say ‘well, what’s new?’

Don’t they have better stuff to be concerned with? I mean, look. There are wars going on, there’s poverty EVERYWHERE, and the last thing you need is pizza being considered a vegetable and this 14 year old scolding these American Lawmakers. Good Lord what kind of world am I living on?

Bit of Onion, Pineapple, Corn, Spinach, Mushroom oh and Tomatoe sauce dont forget that. Im going to be a health freak now, thanks America :D

Just curious about the way the article is written. The whole article is about Congress why is it necessary to mention Barack Obama in the last line only? it has no actual relevance to what is being said throughout the rest of the article. But moving on to the dough of it, each day that passes I continually lose faith in the politicians that run the US. Unfortunately that have entrenched themselves so deep in to the backbone that this country once had that to truly cure this we would have to tear down the whole system and raise up a generation of leaders that is will to put the people before themselves and return to the ideology of “by the people, for the people”. I wish I knew how to make it happen but I don’t

-facepalm- You..You’re kidding, right?

And now The Dail is going to rule that garlic bread is not bread.

Politicians are pretty much the same.

Aren’t tomatoes a fruit?

great! now we can add choped pizza to salads, make pizza pizza soup and what not!
all thats left is to tell the congress men that tomato is a fruit – not a vegetable…

Isn’t tomato a fruit?

It’s a pity they don’t realise tomato is actually a fruit!!

Tomatoes are fruit… IDIOTS!

I can’t believe our taxes pay for this stupidity!!!

This was agreed upon as part of a 182 billion dollar bill to keep the US government running and avoid shut-down. This is a tiny, tiny part of a large, needed bill. I understand it neatly and lazily fits into the “Stupid Fecking Yank” narrative as provided by the AP story this was no-doubt ‘influenced’ by, but in their situation, after endless brinkmanship, add-ons, and niggling, I’d probably vote “Hasta la vista baby” as the new national motto if it meant the country kept running.

Aren’t tomatoes technically fruit?

So… wait a minute, the amount of fruit in a food makes it a vegetable? WHAT?!

So, since pizza is a vegetable because it has two tablespoons of tomato in it, does that mean french fries are vegetable as well if you put copious amounts of ketchup on them?

What a freaking joke! This damn country has gone down the drain! I wonder how much longer the greed will go on like this before complete collapse!

What worries me is that all the people commenting saying “great I’ll go have my 5 servings of veg via pizza” fail to realize that this same 5 servings was equally arbitrarily decided by similarly influential lobby groups.

Logically speaking, protein comes from meant AND nuts (as well as other sources). Calcium comes from milk as well as Bok Choy (others also). Tomatoes are full of vitamin C as well as oranges, Lima beans and bananas are rich in potassium……ect. Basically, food charts separated by food group are logically stupid because if you eat 5 oranges, for example, your not getting the proper range of nutrients.

Proper nutrition is about variety, eating the right combination of foods to maximize nutritional absorption (ie always eat vitamin C along with a protein (meat, nut or grain). Just like you should avoid caffeine (I’m sad about this one as I love coffee) if you want to increase calcium absorption.

Any government that tells you otherwise is bought and should not be listened to when it comes to food (and probably many other things….think of how many medications have been pushed then later found to have serious side effects).

Good thing I just eat pizzas without tomato sauce… No vegetable for me!!!

Can you imagine the huge ammount of quality comedy bits coming out of this new vegetable
It’s gonna be great!

Is there someone who has idea where I can get several pizza hut coupon codes?

And this is what Congress is being paid their exhorbitant salaries to do? I mean….REALLY???!! What a stupid waste of taxpayer dollars! So now we must classify pizza as a vegetable, because Congress has passed legislation that declares it to be so….OMG!! And this is the caliber of the idiots who are running our country…we are doomed ….!

O.K. First of all, a tomato is not a vegetable it is a FRUIT.
wikipedia says:
‘Tomato may refer to both the plant (Solanum lycopersicum) and the edible, typically red, fruit which it bears. Originating in South America, the tomato was spread around the world following the Spanish colonization of the Americas, and its many varieties are now widely grown, often in greenhouses in cooler climates.’…

Second of all, pizza is mostly bleached flour for the dough. The bleaching process takes away almost all of the nutrition in it.

Lastly, the cheese is very high in fat, and full of nasty greasiness. These cheap pizza producers do not invest in nice low fat cheeses.

So what this article is saying is that at the cost of children’s health we are going to let pizza be a ‘vegetable’ so it doesn’t hurt the pizza producers. Seriously, Obama and Congress?

Thought veggies grow Under ground!!! 5 a day ha!!! Kids will be delighted. This is s joke yeah……

I am sorry to say Pizza is not a Vegetable, tomato is class a a fruit as it says here.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/tomatofruitveg

Legally, a tomato is a vegetable in Ireland and Britain.
As Jessica correctly said, it is a fruit.
So we are just as dumb as the Yanks.

OH FOR THE LOVE OF SMALL FURRY ANIMALS.

The US classed Tomatos as a vegetable in 1893.
They haven’t changed it since.
This isn’t a story about the US Congress deciding that the tomato paste on a pizza counted as a vegetable, it’s a story about them NOT CHANGING THE WAY IT HAS BEEN SINCE 1893.

For crying out loud TheJournal, don’t you even read the damn story before you write the headline?

That is crap! What about the meat toppings on it? I mean come on I work for MANCINOS SUBS, PIZZA & PASTA in Nampa, Idaho and the only thing that is a vegetable about it is the veggies that are on it. There is dairy, meat, flour! I swear congress is blonde and they dont have a BRAIN!!!!! LOL

“After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category.” So if I put two tablespoons of tomato sauce on 5 girls that means they are vegetables and I can get my “5-a-day” in a VERY enjoyable way?

“two tablespoons of tomato sauce”. Define sauce – is it freshly made with no garbage, or is it the cans of purchased “sauce” that come loaded with sugar, salt, and other wonderful additives?

Pizza is a vegetable because of the tomato sauce….but yet the tomato is a fruit…..hmmm

hilarious altogether, going for a few lints of ‘water’ ( Budweiser), get stopped for drink driving dya think id get away with saying i only had a few pints of water, surprised diageo has not tried to lobby for something similar this side of the great pond.

I am sorry to say that pizza is not a Vegetable, Tomato is a fruit go back to class.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/tomatofruitveg

Go back to school.

Sounds like a Herman Cain type law !
Imagine a Pizza salesman like him could become US President – God forbid !

I bet the Wookie Queen Michelle Obama is pissed off… She was the one who wanted to remove pizza from the schools, part of her Nazi ideal to tell you what your kids can and can’t eat, can’t wait to get rid of the Obama’s and erase the huge mistake our country made in 2008

Listen folks, this has nothing to do with any industry making money or keeping money going in Wall street. As an American, nobody dare touch the school pizza day. This thing has been around for years so even those idiots in congress know the joy of getting pizza for lunch at school. They may be messed up in the head, but they’re not THAT stupid. They just had to find a way to make it concur with all the other ridiculous laws they’ve passed concerning school lunches.

Its just sad that this is the only way they could think of.