Sorry, but Potatoes May Soon No Longer Be Considered a Vegetable

Food & Wne ^ | December 21, 2023 | Jelisa Castrodale

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“He acknowledged that Americans should consume more vegetables — non-potato vegetables — but he doesn’t think that recategorizing potatoes is the answer. “The suggestion to reclassify potatoes as a non-vegetable is not grounded in any scientific metric,” he continued.”

The same deranged mentality that says men can be women and women can be men want to re-classify fruits to vegetables and vegetables to fruits.

[dfwgator]

Call Any Vegetable - The Mothers Of Invention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDXbElN1oY

[Islander7]

“Tomato is a fruit.”

So is 95% of democrats.

[Qwapisking]

tomato is a fruit but the moe-ron’s trying to reclassify potatoes are nuts!

[buwaya]

Not good for diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
Starch turns into glucose in an instant.
Most of the nutrients are in the skins.

[Gay State Conservative]

I love potatoes *and* tomatoes and I’ll eat them whatever they’re called.

[freepersup]

I never turned my back on Pluto, and I damn-well won’t turn my back on Potato! SOB’s...

[Songcraft]

A legume?


Don't know about that, but these "Giant Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Pies" are loaded with legumes, as well as grains, dairy products, cacao beans, and various other dining staples.


      

[Dutch Boy]

There is an old joke that goes something like this.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

[Mears]

Raw potato skins tossed in olive oil and put in the oven on a cookie sheet until fairly crisp makes a great snack .

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[ChildOfThe60s]

None of the government’s damn business what I eat.

This is Orwellian culinary garbage.

[I want the USA back]

It’s only renaming the things! Doesn’t change what they are.

Maybe the spuds will transition over and “identify” as vegetables and force everyone to stop “misvegging” them.

[TomGuy]

Decades ago, dieticianists complained about hamburger & fries meals.

Later, some clinicians studied the meal and found it to be basically healthy — having several of the recommended healthy food groups.

This is just more leftist craziness.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Music video: "Addicted To Spuds" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

[yuleeyahoo]

You people are not eating the vegetables we want you to, so we are going to reclassify what you do like to eat.

[devere]

Knowing that tomato is a fruit is knowledge. Knowing to not put tomato in fruit salads is wisdom.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Mmmm..mmmm...Butter with some vegetable.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service

Sounds like a 500 person department...

"Poh-tay-toe, Puh-tah-toe...It is NOT a vegetable!"

[Salman]

Why do we need the USDA to make such determinations?

The USDA does some good things such as food safety inspections.

But the spirit of controlling f**king everything needs to be rooted out just as in all parts of government.

[Huskrrrr]

I dated a nice tomato in high school. Definitely a vegetable.