French Fries Considered "Fresh Vegetable"...

[phillybri]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040615/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/french_fries_vegetables_1

WASHINGTON - Batter-coated french fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the Agriculture Department, which has a federal judge's ruling to back it up.

But the department said Tuesday that the classification applies only to rules of commerce, not nutrition, and it doesn't consider an order of fries the same as an apple in school lunches.

The ruling last week by federal District Judge Richard Schell in Beaumont, Texas, allowed batter-coated french fries to be considered fresh vegetables under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. Most other frozen fries had been on the list since 1996.

Regulations under the law help to assure buyers of commodities such as french fries that they are getting what they ordered, said George Chartier, a spokesman for the department's Agricultural Marketing Service. Frozen fries are fresh simply because they don't meet the standard necessary for them to be listed as processed, and adding batter to the fries does not change the classification, he said.

[MallRat]

1. In honor of Reagan's passing?

n/t

[Union Thug]

2. Goes with the other fresh vegetable..

brought to you by ronnie raygun.. Ketchup!

[Speck Tater]

3. Between Bush and Raygun fries with ketchup is mixed vegetables!

[Southpaw Bookworm]

7. A salad perhaps? n/t

[underpants]

4. Ahem..........FRENCH Fries?

Sounds like one of them 'Murkan hatin' activist judges.

[demnan]

5. I thought it was Freedom Fries now.

n/t

[Speck Tater]

6. No Wait! That headline was supposed to read

Bush declares that Frenchmen are vegetables.

[stickdog]

8. I blame France!

Those damn cowardly frogs!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Horticulturally potatoes can't be vegetables. They are tubers.

[Spirochete]

10. put catsup on them

and call it a salad. sheesh.

[lazarus]

11. how is this even remotely logical?

Frozen fries are also partially cooked. That's not fresh in any universe.

[bullimiami]

12. actually it doesnt seem that crazy to me.

They are just raw cut potatos with batter or a coating.
They are not exactly fresh but not exactly cooked and only partway prepared.

This doesnt affect them once they are cooked and noone is going to eat them raw.


I dont think they are partially cooked. Most frozen fries are not precooked afaik.

[Hammie]

13. Batter-coated french fries?

Where on earth does one find batter coated fries?

[nose pin]

14. Not so wacky

It's been done by Dems and Reps:

http://www.jsonline.com/alive/nutrition/0701salsa.stm

[JP Belgium]

15. French fries ??? ..... Belgian fries !!!

http://www.belgianfries.com/

[iverglas]

16. no - poutine!

mmm, with cheese curds and gravy and (at least for anglo Canadians) vinegar.

No, not



whose name, in French, is unfortunately spelled the same way as the cheese 'n chips congomeration.

(And no, poutine is not pronounced the same as "putain", which is another matter altogether.)

Poutine eating poutine?

http://www.urania.be/php-txt/dynpage/Poutine .jpg

(Darn, it was a good one, but you'll have to copy and remove the space to see it.)