Pizza - America's Favourite Vegetable!

[Schneibster]

Cal's Special: tuna, pineapple and jalpenos.
NOM.

You know, if it was seared fresh tuna that could be pretty good.

"Sushi pizza."

And fresh pineapple, hand-sculpted by the most skilled Japanese radish-carving masters.

Just don't overdo the peppers. Tuna's delicate.

[hadespussercats]

Also references to child nutrition standards here:

I didn't say there weren't any.

Whatever. Go enjoy your corn and tuna pizza.

[Feck]

Well, if it's okay to put pineapple on it, why not corn? and corned beef and kielbasa and beetroot too?

It's not okay to put pineapple on it.

or Maize

[Callan]

But what of celery?

[hadespussercats]

Also references to child nutrition standards here:

I didn't say there weren't any.

Whatever. Go enjoy your corn and tuna pizza.

AND pineapples??? Each of these items are fine on their own, but, gawd, do you cook it in a frickin' bucket? Yuck!

[Schneibster]

Also references to child nutrition standards here:

I didn't say there weren't any.

Whatever.

Updated the post with evidence. Repost:

Since its founding in 1946, the National School Lunch Program has been the target of critics from the right as well as from the left. It is clear that even after more than half a century of operation, the National School Lunch Program is deeply flawed. School meals are often unattractive, unappetizing, and not entirely nutritious. The menu has always depended more heavily on surplus commodities than on children’s nutrition needs.

Source.

[hadespussercats]

Also references to child nutrition standards here:

I didn't say there weren't any.

Whatever.

Updated the post with evidence. Repost:

Since its founding in 1946, the National School Lunch Program has been the target of critics from the right as well as from the left. It is clear that even after more than half a century of operation, the National School Lunch Program is deeply flawed. School meals are often unattractive, unappetizing, and not entirely nutritious. The menu has always depended more heavily on surplus commodities than on children’s nutrition needs.

Source.

Oh, I think we're talking at cross-purposes then. I agree with this re- what ends up on the menu. I meant that this reclassification of foods happens for financial reasons, to work around the basic legal requirements of child nutrition.

[hadespussercats]

But what of celery?

On a pizza?

You don't make pizzas. You might make cheesy flatbreads, but you put the wrong things on them to call them pizzas.

[Callan]

But what of celery?

On a pizza?

You don't make pizzas. You might make cheesy flatbreads, but you put the wrong things on them to call them pizzas.

Feck hates celery with a fiery passion. There are whole threads about it.

[Schneibster]

Also references to child nutrition standards here:

I didn't say there weren't any.

Whatever.

Updated the post with evidence. Repost:

Since its founding in 1946, the National School Lunch Program has been the target of critics from the right as well as from the left. It is clear that even after more than half a century of operation, the National School Lunch Program is deeply flawed. School meals are often unattractive, unappetizing, and not entirely nutritious. The menu has always depended more heavily on surplus commodities than on children’s nutrition needs.

Source.

Oh, I think we're talking at cross-purposes then. I agree with this re- what ends up on the menu. I meant that this reclassification of foods happens for financial reasons, to work around the basic legal requirements of child nutrition.

Oh, that's clearer. OK, but I'll still point out that those aren't the only financial reasons; farm subsidies are another. I don't think we fundamentally disagree, though.

ETA: Other than the pineapple thing.

[hadespussercats]

[hadespussercats]

But what of celery?

On a pizza?

You don't make pizzas. You might make cheesy flatbreads, but you put the wrong things on them to call them pizzas.

Feck hates celery with a fiery passion. There are whole threads about it.

Well sure-- but you don't even joke about celery on a PIZZA.

[Callan]

But what of celery?

On a pizza?

You don't make pizzas. You might make cheesy flatbreads, but you put the wrong things on them to call them pizzas.

Feck hates celery with a fiery passion. There are whole threads about it.

Well sure-- but you don't even joke about celery on a PIZZA.

Next time I make Cal's Special, I shall take a pic so you may see its savoury nomminess for yourself.

[Svartalf]

Well, if it's okay to put pineapple on it, why not corn? and corned beef and kielbasa and beetroot too?

It's not okay to put pineapple on it.

and apples? do you like tomatoless, cheeseless apple pizza?









ok, I think the usual term is apple pie

[amused]

Pizza now classified as a vegetable in the US - because of the tomato sauce apparently it counts as a vegetable in America's schools.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ss-says-so

By that standard, does it mean that Bloody Marys also count as a veggie? At least they can have a stick of celery in them...