EPTPizza is a vegetable (well in the US it is) - Page 2
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29 fps
United States5724 Posts
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
Make it happen Congress! | ||
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r33k
Italy3402 Posts
Also Terri Schiavo is officially a pizza. | ||
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Kluey
Canada1197 Posts
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Archas
United States6531 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:01 r33k wrote: Since when are tomatos a vegetable? Also Terri Schiavo is officially a pizza. That was horrible, but I laughed anyway. :< | ||
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Catch]22
Sweden2683 Posts
On November 20 2011 00:55 Conti wrote: No, that's not correct. This is about whether tomato paste should count as vegetables or not. The whole "Pizzas are now vegetable!" meme is a pure invention. In fact, two table spoons of tomato paste already count as vegetable, so by the media's logic, pizzas already are vegetables.  The new bill initially proposed to change "2 tablespoons of tomato paste counts as vegetable" to "0.5 tablespoons counts as vegetable", but now they're back to the status quo (2 tablespoons instead of 0.5). That is all. But of course it's much more fun to claim that the US now declares pizza a vegetable. People will go to your news site to read about that, regardless of whether it is a made-up fantasy or not.  (Edit: Oops, forgot the source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hZy7qHYu4-qXuTWRJm192734Gs6w?docId=6b9a38b3ae5c40979b7be9ba8f1ac176 Obviously not as fun! | ||
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beachbeachy
United States509 Posts
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
Obviously. It's so much fun to see how easily people are manipulated by the media if they just affirm the people's stereotypes of others. | ||
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hipsterHobbit
United States218 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:06 beachbeachy wrote: I dislike vegetables, but I don't dislike pizza. where's the sense? How do you dislike vegetables? there's like a million of them and there's not a single one you like? i bet your fat and don't know how to cook. User was warned for this post | ||
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DreadBaron
United States37 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UwPJZ.jpg) Mmmmm... yummy | ||
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
On November 20 2011 00:50 Grettin wrote: Yeah.. i thought we had a thread already.. Well, all i can say is pineapple doesn't belong on pizza. Pineapple is a fucking abomination. To put it on a pizza should be a capital offense. | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7031 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:07 Conti wrote: Obviously. It's so much fun to see how easily people are manipulated by the media if they just affirm the people's stereotypes of others. It's sensationalized, but still: the United States Congress gives in to pizza lobbyists that want them to count pizza as a serving of vegetables when feeding 5-15 year old children, effectively making them less healthy. Given that we know how much proper nutrition has a positive correlation with constructive behavior and good health, it's insane to have language such as this. I would call that insane and well deserving of mockery, as they're still - in a way - counting pizza as a vegetable. Officially they're counting two spoons of tomato paste a vegetable, sure, and that's also quite silly as tomatoes are fruit and the paste used is quite sugary and only tomato-ish. | ||
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Chewbacca.
United States3634 Posts
I guess it does kind of affect schools that are required to make sure they serve X amount of serving of fruit and vegetables, but most parents that really care about their kids eating healthy send their child to school with a lunch from home. From my experience in school they always had fruit/vegetable options available (carrots/apples/graps/salad), but 95% of people didn't take it anyway so even if schools cut those out it still won't really make a difference. | ||
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Eishi_Ki
Korea (South)1667 Posts
To the subject though, what does it matter what it is 'classified' as? Pizza is still pizza and I don't think this class will change peoples perceptions of how healthy or unhealthy pizza actually is unless you're like Blizzard and just cant let go of your labels... +1 pineapple abomination | ||
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:12 Grumbels wrote: It's sensationalized, but still: the United States Congress gives in to pizza lobbyists that want them to count pizza as a serving of vegetables when feeding 5-15 year old children, effectively making them less healthy. Given that we know how much proper nutrition has a positive correlation with constructive behavior and good health, it's insane to have language such as this. I would call that insane and well deserving of mockery, as they're still - in a way - counting pizza as a vegetable. Officially they're counting two spoons of tomato paste a vegetable, sure, and that's also quite silly as tomatoes are fruit and the paste used is quite sugary and only tomato-ish. Of course, the whole thing is still ridiculous even if you take out the sensationalism. I just find the sensationalism in this case just as ridiculous. Not to mention that people get it backwards, anyhow: It's not about declaring pizza/tomato paste as vegetables, it's about preventing the bill from declaring less tomato sauce as vegetables. Tomato sauce already is being declared a vegetable.People should pay attention to this, because the lobby groups are, in the end, only doing this to sell more pizzas to schools. But please, guys, get your facts straight. | ||
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superjoppe
Sweden3683 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:13 Chewbacca. wrote: People who want to be healthy aren't going to eat a slice of pizza and say, well there is a serving of vegetables and fruit, guess I won't eat anymore You think thats whats going on in the brain of young kids in school? When I was a kid I would eat pizza every day if I could. Letting kids do that however, is fucked up. | ||
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FrodoAndTheSlobStix
United States158 Posts
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:20 FrodoAndTheSlobStix wrote: U.S is getting to the point we're no one is gona argue there opinions anymore with each other, but instead try to get the F out of the u.s.a. It's literally getting the point where it''s just wacky and scary. U.S.A is gona fall and fall hard and thank god. Sry if bad things happen to people, but in terms of bad people paying up. Thank god. Yeah the first sign of a great nation falling is always the inception of fascist pizza rules and usage. | ||
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On November 20 2011 01:18 Eishi_Ki wrote: To the subject though, what does it matter what it is 'classified' as? Pizza is still pizza and I don't think this class will change peoples perceptions of how healthy or unhealthy pizza actually is unless you're like Blizzard and just cant let go of your labels... As far as I know, schools have to serve a certain amount of vegetables/fruits for lunch. If you define tomato paste as vegetables, you can serve more pizza and less actual vegetables. Which means people who sell pizzas sell even more pizzas than before, because kids kinda like pizzas more than vegetables. | ||
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