Last week, Congress blocked proposed changes by the Agriculture Departmentintended to reduce childhood obesity by adding more fruits and green vegetables to school lunch menus.

photo courtesy of LA Times

So yeah, now the sauce on pizza counts as a vegetable. Ri-f-ing-diculous, if you ask me. Tomato sauce has tomatoes in it, sure (technically a fruit, by the way), but it often comes loaded with sugar and sodium. And what about the cheese and refined-flour crust of most pizzas, huh?

What do you think about pizza sauce counting as a vegetable?