{"id":1947,"date":"2004-06-15T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1947.html"},"modified":"2004-06-15T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T18:01:06","slug":"first-ketchup-now-batter-coated-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/first-ketchup-now-batter-coated-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"First ketchup, now batter-coated fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know Bush wants to take up the Reagan mantle, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A43356-2004Jun15.html\">this is just asking for ridicule<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Batter-coated french fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the Agriculture Department, which has a federal judge&#8217;s ruling to back it up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, the purpose of this classification is for frozen food commerce, not school lunches. To that extent, the Reagan administration&#8217;s 1981 proposal to classify ketchup as a vegetable was far worse.<\/p>\n<p>But still, it&#8217;s hard not to notice the parallel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The department does not plan to repeat its experience in trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches, [George Chartier, a spokesman for the department&#8217;s Agricultural Marketing Service] said. The ketchup-as-vegetable proposal was put forward in the Reagan administration, and the department dropped the idea after it found itself not only opposed but laughed at.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s reassuring that the administration doesn&#8217;t <i>plan<\/i> to follow Reagan&#8217;s move on this, but then again, it&#8217;s not a categorical rejection of the idea, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know Bush wants to take up the Reagan mantle, but this is just asking for ridicule: Batter-coated french fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the Agriculture Department, which has a federal judge&#8217;s ruling to back it up. To be fair, the purpose of this classification is for frozen food commerce, not school lunches. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}