Governments haven?t always been so inclined to pass the buck on vegetables. In 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a customs case that the tomato should count as a vegetable. ?Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people ? all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens,? the opinion said, before adding that ?the attempt to class tomatoes as fruit is not unlike a recent attempt to class beans as seeds.? (The latter was also rejected.) In 2001, the European Union decided that, for its own purposes of trade, a tomato is a fruit. But the Obama administration has failed in its effort to enforce its own reasonable, but ultimately vacuous, definition of vegetablehood upon on food-industry fat cats and our country?s fat schoolchildren. And if, heaven forfend, Hermain Cain is elected to the White House, one expects the pizza industry will be manufacturing federally sanctioned ?vegetables? for another four years at least: As Cain opined in a recent interview with GQ, ?A manly man don?t want it piled high with vegetables. He would call that a sissy pie.?
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