Only in America…
Bureaucracy run amok!
Yeah. Pretty funny until you read the article. Somehow, I’m sure this classification will come back to bite the consumer.
Cut from article:
The commodities act does not apply to nutrition, where batter-coated french fries are still considered processed food.
The department does not plan to repeat its experience in trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches, Chartier 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.
The department’s proposal to list batter-coated fries as fresh under the commodities act provisions was challenged by a Dallas-area food distributor, Fleming Companies. The company is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, and the law requires creditors who sold fresh fruits and vegetables to be paid in full, while other creditors might get partial payment, said Fleming Companies’ lawyer, Tim Elliott of Chicago.
Does that mean they are not Freedom Fries anymore? I am confused!