Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for January 19, 2017
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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.
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.