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Old 03-19-2007, 12:15 PM   #35
Shawnee123
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Originally Posted by sycamore View Post
For "ketchup"...emphasis mine:

As part of changes proposed by the USDA and implemented into law, ketchup was declared a vegetable by the Republican Reagan administration on March 9, 1981; this was "so public schools could include it in their balanced meal plan," However, liberal critics charged that it would allow schools to count ketchup as a vegetable in place of "real" vegetables like potatoes and the like. After a volcano of negative publicity, the USDA and the Reagan Administration stopped refering to condiments as vegetables.
Hmmm, how did the word liberal disappear the first time this paragraph was posted?
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