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  • Repubtards are vegetables!

  • this is why AMERIKA is where they are today no where ahead in anything , stupidest fattest the most useless people in the world, there is not a thing thats not going right in the us their government is screwing them & they can't get wise to it

  • If US makes Pizza into a fruit your screwed. The obesidy in US is going to be huge.

    Perhaps thats why they are implenting sopa/pipa to get people outside of US into your prisons to work, Since they can`t use heavy weight prisoners to do the work. kewl.

  • Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

  • And let me guess, Coke is fruit juice too?

  • Popsicles are now fruit

  • Yay! Tacos is a veggie!

  • crap in crap out 

  • ...Only in America

  • LOOK, IF THEY DIDN'T DO THIS, PIZZA WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN SCHOOL ANYMORE. I'M NOT SURE ABOUT YOU, BUT I LOVED PIZZA FRIDAY AT MY SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND I HOPE THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY PIZZA FRIDAY JUST AS I DID. In other news, Government is pointless.

  • @chosunpeople

    ha :)

  • I wonder how tomato paste is a vegetable when tomatoes aren't even vegetables.... I guess by this logic ground beef is now fruit.

  • Tomatoes are fruits  . . . .

  • Yet another reason NOT to have your kids in public school.

  • pickles are a fruit

  • Man, Americans are stupid. This about the sauce in the pizza, not the whole pizza itself. As for the "omg tomatoes are fruits lololol!11", so are cucumbers, squash, green beans, bell peppers, pumpkin, etc. Do you get your panties in a twist when people refer to those as vegetables? When talking about food, most people use culinary terms, not botanical ones.

  • the only vegetables in pizza are the basil and oregano that are sprinkled into the sauce. the corn, flour, olive oil and tomato sauce are all pressed from fruits.

    typical congressman nonsense. my god, how hard could it be to run against these nuts?

  • Damn..people keep talkin about tomatoes being a fruit and not a vegetable, like THAT woulda made it any better. Pizza is junk food...PERIOD! Congress don't give a FUCK about you or your kids.

  • i think us government gonna say this "cows always eating vegetables so beefs are vegetables"

  • real problem is EATING TOO MUCH TOO MUCH

  • AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

  • It barely qualifies as pizza in school.

  • @distractos

    true, school pizza taste like shit. And for every 10 pizza served in the cafeteria, at least 6 of them were thrown out not even half eaten. Also, there are many days, where pizza is the only option available for school lunch.

  • The GOP lost touch with reality a long time ago.

  • and fast food is good for you

  • ... Tomato is a fruit.

    I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

  • And its just absurd that parents let their children eat stuf like pizza and french fries at school. Just fucking absurd, you don't want your kids to be healthy? I can not understand that parents let this happen. Just incredible.

  • lol, even if you just look at the tomato sauce, tomato isn't a vegetable. retard americans holding dear to the stereotype.

  • @TheSouthernAndrew Aint gym mandatory in the states? That's a real shame...

  • Too bad politicans wont listen to people with actual common sense. They're all to busy whiping their ass with 100 dollar bills. (Sorry for my bad englisv, I'm norwegian)

  • my grandfather was a pizza farmer, you bastards!

  • How's about they just stop selling hot lunches in school all together?

    Maybe some soup or a boiled egg, but no more expensive big meals and just sell baguette sandwiches? they're tasty, inexpensive, and way healthier than the processed garbage they spoon down today. Sure, the kids will complain, but just wait a few months and that problem will fix itself.

  • Of course pizza's a vegetable. This kind of strategic thinking comes from CEOs, the same people who told us that cigarettes don't cause cancer. Let's give them bigger bonuses. They deserve it.

  • Want to decrease child obesity? Why not push for mandatory Gym and PE classes? Your kids are tired and miserable? That's the point, now they're not restless and fooling around in class, and assuming the teacher is being invasive with the teaching/learning experience, your kids are now doing better in class. In the end everyone wins :)

  • @TheSouthernAndrew

    PE is mandatory in my high school if you aren't part of a school sport or the marching band.

    Unfortunately, the same fat asses who have mandatory PE also eat a slice of pizza, fries, and a soda each day at lunch while doing their health class homework.

  • I agree. They government shouldn't regulate school lunches.

  • Republicunts hahaha

  • but tomatoes arent even vegetables....they're fruits!!

  • Wow. Really Congress? Pizza is a fruit! Not a Vegetable. DUH!

  • What ever happened to just eating a good old apple, or tomatoe, or potato? 

  • @cycmpdf no money for frozen pizza industry then.... can't have that can we?

  • Pizza = Vegetable, Water boarding = enhanced interrogation technique. Attacking other countries, murdering people and pillaging natural resources = spreading democracy,

    America, leader of the free world!

  • "Pizza? A vegetable? Only in America" - Jamie Oliver

  • The captions are really throwing me off.

  • LOL this video implies that kids are gunna eat those fucking veggies.

    Fucking retarded do-gooders.

    Pretty much every highschool has a line with veggies and "home cooked type food"

    That's the line that NO KID goes through. Kids don't want those fucking veggies. Kids will just stop eating the lunches.

    FAIL FAIL FAIL

  • The US is retarted

  • @af10512 Coming from someone that can't even spell "retard" right.

  • Good ole double speak, when you let corporations legislate how to think and speak what do you expect? Soon they will classify corporate slogans are literature and force students to learn and recite corporate slogans, got to learn that "literature"..

  • my banana is a vegetable.

  • @ToeInspector im not gay but i like bananas

  • ....aren't tomatoes fruits?

  • Nobody is telling anybody what to eat. This has to do with regulating what public schools provide to children. Feel free to send your kids to school with a boxed lunch of pork rinds and M&M's if you don't like it.

  • @dlhitch2007 I heard news where they are actually forbidding parents to do that. It's crazy.

  • @TheLuminousCleric

    That's not a US government policy. They aren't forcing anybody to eat or not eat anything. This issue is about the government's perfectly legitimate interest in controlling the nutrition of subsidized lunches provided by public schools.

  • Even if there is the smallest infinate amount of vitamins in tomato sauce, the amount of sugar, salt and fat on the pizza slice negates any nutrition that it had to begin with. Lol..what a friggin joke!

  • Nov 17 2011: The Day America Gave Up.

  • school cafeteria pizza sucks.

  • @resincoatedlungs I don't know... I enjoyed those breakfast pizza when I was in school.

  • Cant wait till they pass legislation to give those hotdog trees the status they so clearly deserve.

  • if they want the tomatosause to count as a vegetable they should look at the percentage of the total calories it represents. On a pizza, that's approximately NOTHING.

  • I'd like to see an American diagram if the four fruit groups

  • I just read the politifact article on this. Turns out that two tablespoons of tomato paste is already considered a serving of fruits or vegetables (and scientifically this is justified). The USDA proposed increasing the amount needed to a half-cup, and the house republicans oppose the change.

    Nowhere near as sensationalist as this video suggested. Gotta say I'm disappointed TYT.

  • Corporations are people.

    Pizza is a vegetable.

    Next?

    Cars are pets?

  • How the hell is ketchup or tomato paste a vegetable? A vegetable with NO FIBER????

  • so isn't beef technically a vegetable since cows eat vegetables?

  • hahah, honestly, the american government is a joke.

  • @jiggeynizzle I know, right? :l

    I wish I was somewhere else

    :cry:

  • Just wait... before we know it soda will become a veggie, too. They'll find a way. HFCS?! It's got CORN in it! Corn's a vegetable, isn't it? And it's okay in moderation!

  • @jtho155 LOL indeed, coca cola with added corn syrup is a vegetable drink.

  • where are the quotes of the republicans who said this bullshit? its probably just lies like most liberals are made of

  • I just hugged a Canadian flag. Thank goodness I go to school here in Canada and not the U.S. this is ridiculous.

  • @mattt1994 dude you cant believe all of what these idiots say. they are liars they didnt give any republican names of who said it should be a vegetable

  • Grass is green, cows eat grass, cow makes grass into milk, milk is turned into cheese, cheese is a vegetable = everybody wins!

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    90% OF AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ARE FUGGIN RETARDED. PAY CUT NEEDED.

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  • whats with the subtitles

  • Tomatos are secretly fruits, like half of congressional Republicans.

  • @LeLimeLine did you know tomatoes are also a berry?

  • @LeLimeLine @LeLimeLine <<< proof that the left is just as hateful and homophobic as the right...

    anyone wants to argue that... the 2nd highest rating is a homophobic comment and it has 50 likes...

    *apolitical gay dude chimes out*

    #justsayin

  • @LeLimeLine Tomatoes are vegetables, also.

  • @LeLimeLine i love how, as of the time i made this comment, your comment has 69 thumbs up, considering what its about.

  • Dear pizzeria owners,

    please put up a sign saying something like this:

    "Due to federal regulations we have been required to replace all pizzas with salads.

    We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause."

  • We need the broccoli, kale and lettuce lobbyists more than ever.

  • Beer = grain serving?

    Did any of the repubican congress get a leafy green from their secret garden to roll up & smoke?? Isn't that a green leafy  vegetable too??

  • I just harvested some pizza and french fries from my garden this morning.

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  • Tomatoes are a fruit aren't they?

  • So pepperoni = Fat greasy republicans? Ya, i'm not letting my son eat that everyday...don't need my sons mind corrupt from any of this! Nuff said...PEACE

  • HAHAHA!!! Oh I can laugh at this because I'm not a US citizen. Normally I would try to give an intelligent response but there is not need for this. This is funny... well as long as you aren't a us citizen. So eat your "fruit" with extra cheese and when your kids weigh 300pounds you can instead of blaming republicans and lobbyists you can blame the government. Anyone who votes republican at this point is IMHO someone to be laughed at.

  • I'm just going to repeat a comment that I saw.

    Pizza isn't a vegetable.

    It isn't healthy.

    Pizza is a vegetable.

    It still isn't healthy.

  • Is there absolutely nothing sacred in America? That poor country is rapidly becoming the toilet of the world.

  • well if they cooked real tomato sauce which actually has no sugar in it and to add it would ruin the flavor like they do in Italy it would almost count as a vegetable but the shit we have here is like some chemical tomato paste with sugar and if you served that in Italy the very next day and old school Sicilian gangster would break your legs

  • LOL America is so fucked up.....the men behind the government act like Gods among you citizens and do not give two shits about you. Slavery in 2012

  • Hate that viewpoint; you can't tell me what to eat!/what my kids eat!

    Don't they understand that they are trying to save their kids life? that Jamie Oliver fiasco was abit of a disgrace imo. Arrogant turds

  • Please everyone knows the food groups are beans bacon whiskey and lard!

  • @TestMonkey254 I GOT YER FOUR BASIC FOOD GROUPS!

  • I doubt many of you are botanists.

    Tomato is a vegetable to ordinary people, at least in terms of cooking. Yes, there are two classifications.

    

  • Turtles eat vegetables and fish.

    The Ninja Turtles eat pizza.

    Therefore pizza is a vegetable AND fish.

  • If the USDA had succeeded in banning pizza day, kids would just start bringing in their own good tasting food. I'm fat and that's what I would do.

  • I would love to see any living human with a brain that calls pizza a vegetable. Smoke cigs, drink booze, and eat pizza. I swear it's good for you...

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    Gotta love American leadershit, oops I mean leadership!

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    These ass-hats receive paychecks - funded by America taxpayers???!!! ; D

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    LMFAO!

  • americans are SO stupid.. -.- goddamn. And recycling is BULLSHIT

  • tomato is a fruit. and we thought sarah palin was the worst of the bunch...

  • Wut a pizza is a vegetable!? The tomato is a fruit, so at least call the pizza a fruit why don't you ._.

  • an other point to prove how americans are retarded

  • @skat0r

    We are not "retarded."

    The majority of us disagree with Congress passing this.

    The only reason it did pass, is because of the corporations.. Pizza corporations can't sell their products to our schools because it's unhealthy, which means the corporations lose money. Now that Congress has declared it a "vegetable" they can serve it in our schools again and make money. Republicans screw everyone else just so the corporations can have more money.

    Average Americans have no voice anymore.

  • @AcrophobicClimber Just wait. Once the obesity and colonel cancer raises due to Congress's stupid greedy minds, they're gonna start saying vegetables are bad for you.

    And another thing...don't shoot the president, shoot these idiots. It'd do us all a favor, are we all in agreement?

  • @Hellsing874

    I'm actually in favor of the Democrats right now. The Republicans work for the millionaires and billionaires, not the people. The last thing America needs is another Republican President.

  • @skat0r It's not the Americans. It's the government that has taken the freedom of rights by using economic debt, which I am beginning to think was on purpose, to gain power back from the majority by scaring the shit out of them. These people are the idiots and they need to be gone, now.

  • The funniest part of this is that tomatoes are fruits.

  • @KyrkRTG

    technically it is, however culinary it is considered a vegetable

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  • WHAT THE FUCK! Pizza is not a vegetable. Hell! a tomato isn't even a vegetable, its a fucking fruit! Congress get your shit together and act like you got some god damn sense. This country is going the shitter, i swear.

  • @Fluffezze

    Yeah, and based on your poor spelling and grammar skills, I can see why.

  • ASDEFRGTHJKL:

  • So if pizza's a vegetable, then should we classify mayonnaise as an instrument?

  • Tomatoes are fruits, potatoes are NOT vegetables, and the 13 year old still proves to be smarter than congress. *sigh…*

  • The whole world doesn't make sense to me anymore. F**k it I might as well say that raspberry filled doughnuts are fruit, hooray for chocolates as vegetables.

  • No wonder Everyone in the US is fat, everything is a fucking "vegetable"

  • @LivyDivy11 not everyone but most of them.

    i weigh only 165-170 at 5,11

  • >implying this is a bad thing

    shut the fuck up politicfags, FUCKING PIZZA FUCK YEAH

  • What's next, going to start handing out monopoly money to help with the financial crisis?

  • Wow. This seriously seems like something that would be on the Onion news show or some kind of parody show. They have a strange way of going about things over there, Have education problems? Easy lower the passing grade! Not eating enough vegetables? EASY make new ones!

  • Next is what?

    Sugar is a vegetable, it is from a palm tree LOL

  • I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

  • Are you Americans still going to vote for republican in the next election? LOL

  • Tomato is a fruit. Pizza... vegetable.

    Fuck it, I'm moving to Canada.

  • @FireFlysNeverDie that was acutally my first reaction,

    to the letter, lol

  • Public financing in the world´s largest economy: the first step to democracy!!

  • Why has no one mentioned the fact that tomatos are fruits?

  • So French fries are healthy because they are potatoes?

  • so... ive been a vegetarian all along??

  • what the fucking bullshit nigger fuck

  • I think we should classify every member of the Congress as a Vegetables

    and Tomato is a FRUIT

    CONGRESS= Fruitcake and Vegetablesoup

  • @FreestylaBoy So (breads/grains+fruit+dairy)+ov­en cook time=vegetable? Wow, congress should be mentioned for creating this insane new pseudo-equation in future History books under US government f--- ups! 8D

  • Being against government intervention is one thing, but being against the government just stating a fact about health is just stupidity. Oh...I forgot that we are talking about Republicans.

  • *Facepalm* Pizza can't be a vegetable. Tomato is a fruit!

  • Why don't they just change the definition of obesity while their at it?

  • Does America know that they're mocked by every other country in the world? Jesus you guys are fucked

  • Look, Cake is healthy for you! It has milk and eggs!!!! Let them eat cake!!!!

    Thank you Bill Cosby!

  • this is why i hate living in America....

    everyone in congress is a fucking corrupt dumbass...

  • Well if this is so, my CORN mash Whiskey is a Vegi! Woo Hoo!

  • ....we have wars going on, we have people who can't even afford to eat, people who are homeless, people who are losing their jobs. We have so many serious problems going on right now...

    Oh but we decided that pizza is a veggie! another crises avoided, because that's the only kind of crises these people can dodge.

    and for fuck sake tomatoes are fruits!!!!

    This just proves that they are all complete fucking morons.

  • This is absolutely preposterous.... tomato is a fruit

  • @44ch1m You havent been watching Top Chef.

  • @SandBarAndYou am I supposed to know what that is?

  • This is clear evidence that US politicians cares more about corporate interests than their people...

    That the OWS movement and honest politicians like Ron Paul aren't getting even more support than they are is beyond me.

  • this is what happens when ignorant sheeple elect tea baggers to congress

  • @p90xsteroids Your reply makes you sound ignorant. The Americans who vote for politicians make bad decisions, no doubt about it. However, you can't lump all bad decisions on the tea party. Obama and a lot of Dem politicians aren't helping this country either. Meanwhile some GOP and DEM are good for the country. The problem is we don't have enough good politicians working for the people. If you don't see that, you might be a sheep.

  • Vegetables lose their nutrition value when combined with processed foods and this especially applies to fried foods. Pizza might seem good in theory, but it's not. The only healthy fast food I know of is Subway and that's a toss up if you order the wrong thing or get it prepped a certain way. Another fun fact is that sugar and the infamous High Fructose Corn Syrup hurts the body's absorbsion of nutrients. This means salad with dressing on it hurts the nutritional value. Eat healthy America.

  • You know, I don't like the idea of forcing kids at public schools to eat what's healthy for them. I believe that giving them the option to kill themselves off through type-2 diabetes or cancer helps the evolution of mankind. However, this is the stupidest argument I've ever heard. Pizza=Vegetable=Tomato=Fruit=V­egetable? Uh... yeah, doesn't compute on multiple levels you stupid Repubs.

  • any plant we eat are vegetables so all fruits we eat are vegetables. But in cooking we separate fruits from vegetables. Yes a tomato does have seeds so it's technically a fruit but in cooking because it contains a low amount of sugar compare to other fruits and its nutritional value is more similar to non-fruit vegetables it's technically consider and used as a vegetable

  • next theres gonna be skoal and Marlboros in the school vending machines. Republicans love defending cigarette smokers and snuff chewers by not raising taxes on those products and not banning smoking in bars.

  • The republicans want fat kids, and the republican logo is an elephant. LOLMAO

  • The tomato sauce on pizza does come from a fruit, but proportionally, a cheese pizza is mostly bread and cheese. Eating cheese pizza, you will very quickly reach your daily limit of carbohydrates, saturated fats, and possibly trans fats, depending on the cheese. If you get your fruit/vegetable serving from pizza, you will be sick. It's like getting your daily Citric Acid serving from 7Up and Sprite, or getting your daily calcium serving from milk chocolate. You will get sick!

  • Ice cream for breakfast!

    I've been working under the assumption that Republicans are just selfish bratty children. Fits, doesn't it?

  • A TOMATO IS A FREAKIN FRUIT!!!!

  • But tomatoes are a fruit...

  • The Republican are doom to repeat history? "Pizza is a vegetable" (2011), "Ketchup is a vegetable" (1982). Hey, look: don't fuck with food, that's disgusting: It's not that Pizza is bad for you, it could be part of an healthy diet. But it's not a vegetable like it's a compound that include vegetable, dairy, meat, oils, carbohydrates, bread... You need to add poultry, bread, beans, vegetable, eggs, fish, rice, nuts, tea - that say, I'm no diet expert.

  • Cocaine is made from the coca plant = Vegetable!

  • Facts? Lets see, Hamburger, Beef(if it is not soy) in most schools it is soy. The bread is wheat, the lettuce is just that, tomato is just that, the sodium and other things are in every veg, food, and whatever. And if Tomato is a fruit, should we cut that too? Hell, Sugar is now bad? It is NATURAL. Now they want sacrin or aspertain. You people are fucked.

  • @mrmjmolina You know what, please do everyone a favor and stop commenting on threads with your lack of knowledge and made up ideas. Try reading some facts before speaking. For example, comparing 100g of ketchup to 100g of tomatoes, nutritionally speaking, ketchup has more nutrients. Ketchup has 100 cal, 1.74g of protein, 15.1mg of vit C, and 17mg lycopene. All higher than 100g of tomatoes, including sodium. Not exactly healthier, but your statement of there being no tomatoes in ketchup is false

  • @22banway the facts are if vegetables are processed and not fresh then they've lost 3/4 or ALLof their nutritional value. katchup isn't worth SHIT & you know it. the 4 grams of sugar alone cancel out any 'lycopene' involved. but then again the lycopene was cooked out of the tomatoes when they boiled them over 150 degrees for an hour. pretty common knowledge if you live in a semi-populated suburban or urban environment. Appalachia? not too many people there may know this valuable info. 

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  • Respond to this video... No, but it is common knowledge to know that ketchup is made from tomatoes which is what your previous comment said wasn't true. All that sodium and HFCS is removed if you buy organic--which coincidentally is also made from REAL tomatoes too. It isn't health food, but it's a far cry from a big mac. I'm done arguing with an idiot on the internet.