US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

theteal · 18-11-2011 02:37PM

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 · 18-11-2011 06:58PM

1,337 posts at 13.37 ?

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

Paddy Cow · 18-11-2011 07:14PM

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 · 19-11-2011 12:32AM

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

Jay Zus · 19-11-2011 12:49AM

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 · 19-11-2011 01:14AM

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 · 19-11-2011 01:54AM

Pizza a vegetable ?

Duh, everyone knows it's a fruit !

earpiece · 19-11-2011 03:00PM

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

JohnMarston · 19-11-2011 03:04PM

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 · 19-11-2011 03:19PM

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 · 19-11-2011 03:25PM

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 · 19-11-2011 04:19PM

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 · 19-11-2011 04:24PM

No but a deep fried snickers might...

starlit · 19-11-2011 05:43PM

Your serious, its all dough!?

opinion guy · 19-11-2011 06:06PM

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 · 20-11-2011 01:28AM

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 · 20-11-2011 01:33AM

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

LighterGuy · 20-11-2011 01:36AM

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

ShooterSF · 20-11-2011 02:13AM

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 · 20-11-2011 02:48AM

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 · 20-11-2011 03:40AM

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 · 20-11-2011 04:31AM

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 · 20-11-2011 04:36AM

It sounds like the real vegetables are sitting in Congress

John Doe1 · 20-11-2011 04:39AM

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

Deki · 20-11-2011 06:49AM

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 · 20-11-2011 10:24AM

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".

US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

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