which led critics to declare that Congress had categorized pizza — the most common vehicle for those two reconstituted tablespoons — as a vegetable. Just as in the Reagan-era ketchup fiasco ...

Historical note: Remember when the Reagan administration proposed to allow ketchup to count as a vegetable in school meals: An additional proposed change in crediting policy would allow vegetable ...

Former President Ronald Reagan would surely be pleased to know that many of his legacies remain intact in 2012, from campaign promises to lower taxes to ketchup's classification as a vegetable.

"This [nutrition regulation proposed by Congress] may go down as the biggest nutritional blunder since Reagan tried to declare ketchup as a vegetable," Wootan tells The Salt. "It's ridiculous to ...

There's one political act of Ronald Reagan's presidency that I can't ignore. It's well known among the food-loving set. On his watch, the USDA attempted to classify ketchup as a vegetable in ...

Ronald Reagan failed to have ketchup defined as a vegetable for the federal school lunch program, but pizza and French fries are on the menu. With 17 percent of Americans aged two to 19 obese, the ...

School cafeterias have been under siege for three decades, ever since Ronald Reagan declared ketchup to be a vegetable. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed by Congress in 2010 raised the ...

Remember when the federal government decided to call ketchup a vegetable? Or when Washington ... Well, to borrow from Ronald Reagan, here they go again. The government has decided that the ...