So now says the Trump administration.
First it was Reagan: ketchup is a vegetable
Now Trump: paste is a vegetable
Because is obesity really that big of a problem?
And they repealed Michelle’s noble work on her birthday! Ugh, these people.
To be fair, it appears that pasta made from vegetable flours can be considered a vegetable, not semolina/wheat pasta.
There isn’t that much veggie stuff in vegetable pasta. It’s more for color than nutrition. UNLESS you are talking edamame pasta or chickpea pasta, which I doubt if this pertains to school lunches. Edamame/chickpea pasta is expensive compared to the regular stuff.
Potatoes are fruit? In what universe? If you cross the Reagan administration with the Trump administration, French fries and ketchup are a healthy meal of fruit and vegetables?
Idiots!
~VOW
Not on the context of healthy meals for kids.
Well, the “pasta” I eat is 100% vegetables, but it’s a completely different thing.
So according to the new rules, pasta counts as a vegetable if it’s made with potato, soy, or other starchy vegetable flours. Potatoes are indeed considered a fruit, but only when served at breakfast. I guess by noon, they’ve turned back into vegetables.
Mmmm, nothing like a breakfast burrito with a tall, icy glass of potato juice.
Put some acid in that potato juice, or it will turn rusty brown!
Before any advors can make changes to the Federal school lunch program, I hereby proclaim they must eat school lunches for their three meals a day, for a month.
All the while listening nonstop to Jamie Oliver lecture about child nutrition.
~VOW
I can have a really healthy balanced breakfast of bacon and hash brown, then a really healthy lunch of burger and fries, and spaghetti for dinner!
So much fruit and veg, I’m nearly vegetarian!
Along with the “ketchup is a vegetable” thing, I seem to remember Bush 2 ( “W” ) was doing some dog & pony show/photo-op someplace whereby he was touting fast food workers as being in the manufacturing sector. Bit of a reach, I’d say.
It’s a trick question, right?
Q: Name Reagan’s favorite vegetable.
1: Freedom-fry potatoes
2: Tomato ketchup
3: James Brady
4: Jelly beans
Anything from a plant source could be called “vegetable”, even grain products. Cornbread without butter is vegetarian, right? Just wait till beer and wine are classed as foods suitable for school lunches. I’m surprised industry lobbyists aren’t pushing that. Or are they?
A typo has never been truer.
CMC
Cornbread with butter is vegetarian. Vegetarian =/= from plants, you’re thinking of vegan. Vegetarian’ may include animal products that don’t require the animal to die, so milk, eggs and honey, although not all vegetarians eat all of those.
Thank you for attending today’s lecture on ‘them weird hippy diets, what’s that all about then?’