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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

For those who don’t know

In the Reagan administration’s attempt to slash $1.5 billion from children’s nutrition funding, school lunch program requirements were worded (whether deliberately or not) so as to conceivably allow for designating ketchup as a vegetable, allowing the USDA to eliminate one of the two vegetables required to meet minimum food and nutrition standards, and thus shrink costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable