RAVE: Americans Say Pizza is a Vegetable!

In case you didn't know it, pizza is a vegetable.



I sure as hell didn't know that either. No wonder I always struggled in biology.

Yip, you read right. That ode to carbohydrate-heavy, high calorie eating fast food is, in fact, a vegetable. At least, that is according to United States legislators.

Move over you lowly celery and beetroot and lettuce, here comes the almighty PIZZA!

I heard about this funniest, most ridiculous news this morning on Russia Today - it was a report on how pizza has been declared a 'vegetable' for some time now in the United States, on the utterly spurious 'logic' that the tomato splattered on a pizza (which is from tomato concentrate anyway) thereby warrants a pizza being designated as a vegetable.

All of this has been primarily used to justify why American kids in public schools can be fed pizzas on the grounds that, being a 'vegetable', it will be nutritious and meet vegetable intake requirements mandated for kids in American public schools.

As reported at www.knowyourmeme.com:

"On November 14th, 2011, The Associated Press published an article about a spending bill put forth by House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee that would attempt to undermine efforts by the Obama administration to improve the nutritional value of public school lunches. The article revealed that part of the bill would protect the status of tomato paste on pizza as a vegetable.

The spending bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. The department’s proposed guidelines would have attempted to prevent that. The changes had been requested by food companies that produce frozen pizzas, the salt industry and potato growers. Some conservatives in Congress have called the push for healthier foods an overreach, saying the government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat."

It is estimated that the fast-food industry and frozen pizza-making giants like Con-Agra spent $5.6-billion lobbying Congress to ensure that their puppet whores (aka legislators) would know their place and vote to make pizza designated a vegetable.

In a supersize-obsessed country where supersize kids have exponentially grown in numbers, this is downright outrageous if it weren't so damn funny.

If I were an American parent, this would be a rant - but I'm not, so it's a rave. I know stupidly funny when I see it.  

Maybe obesity is a laughing matter for American legislators after all?

As they say - only in America.

After all, they voted this one in as President for eight years:



Do you get my point?