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elSicomoro · 03-19-2007, 02:39 AM

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.

03-19-2007, 02:39 AM	#10
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	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.

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