Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for January 19, 2017
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January 20, 2017
Transcript:
Gabby: Grandma's making vegetables for dinner.
Michael: Yuck! I hate vegetables. Why can't we have pizza? I love pizza!
Gabby: Pizza has tomato sauce, and tomatoes are a vegetable.
Michael: There really IS a thin line between love and hate.
A Judge ruled that since they are usually consumed during the meal and not during dessert that it is legally a vegetable (at least in relation to import laws).
Pizza can be part of a balanced diet. I don’t usually have pepperoni, unless I’m making it myself and can have it in small quantities, as the grease gets to me. But it is really a fairly balanced meal: Meat, diary, vegetable, & grain. Just watch how much you eat, and adjust the crust & toppings to fit your dietary needs.
Shades of R. Reagan! Under Reagan, ketchup was declared a vegetable. Reagan’s cutbacks in the federal school lunch program made it harder to provide a “balanced diet” to schoolchildren, including fresh vegetables. Reagan argued that ketchup is a vegetable because it is red and comes from tomatoes.
potrerokid almost 8 years ago
Tomatoes grow on a vine; therefore they are BERRIES!!!!!!!!
sfreader1 almost 8 years ago
The pizza I love best is a “garbage” pizza. It has lots of veggies on it. And yes, the tomato is not a vegetable. It is a fruit. Berries are fruit.
DM2860 almost 8 years ago
A Judge ruled that since they are usually consumed during the meal and not during dessert that it is legally a vegetable (at least in relation to import laws).
whiteaj almost 8 years ago
Botanically, tomatoes are fruit.
Smiley Rmom almost 8 years ago
Pizza can be part of a balanced diet. I don’t usually have pepperoni, unless I’m making it myself and can have it in small quantities, as the grease gets to me. But it is really a fairly balanced meal: Meat, diary, vegetable, & grain. Just watch how much you eat, and adjust the crust & toppings to fit your dietary needs.
vorpal7 almost 8 years ago
Wrongo… they are Fruit.
rebecca.l.burson almost 8 years ago
Tomatoes are a FRUIT!
Iwa Iniki almost 8 years ago
Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable.
Boise Ed Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Shades of R. Reagan! Under Reagan, ketchup was declared a vegetable. Reagan’s cutbacks in the federal school lunch program made it harder to provide a “balanced diet” to schoolchildren, including fresh vegetables. Reagan argued that ketchup is a vegetable because it is red and comes from tomatoes.