Pizza Is A Vegetable?!

There was a pretty infamous effort by the Frozen Food Institute, which is basically the pizza and French fries. Yeah. That made the tomato sauce on the pizza to be counted as a vegetable.

Yeah.

And French fries, we were working very hard to put limit. We proposed limitations on the amount of fries that could be served in a given week.

Which is also a vegetable.

Right, exactly. You didn't know. Ketchup.

Also is a vegetable.

Yeah. And so they got Congress to intervene and they attached that onto another bill and got that through. So we were able to then increase the serving of vegetables so you could serve fries, but you still also had to serve broccoli or something like that. so it really kind of defeated the purpose of serving the fries. So we were able to constrain that significantly at the time anyway.

I remember a story that, you know, Swanson's Pizza, which is a big pizza company in Minnesota, is the largest supplier of pizza to schools. And Amy Klobuchar, who's the senator from Minnesota, Democrat, was instrumental in getting pizza being included as a vegetable, which just.

Goes to show you.

The ways in which the food industry is so influential in driving our policies, which have nothing to do with science.