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(Philly.com) Obvious Senate votes against an anti-potato bill hashed together by the USDA, considering it half-baked. USDA vows to fry again. Au gratin   (philly.com) divider line 170
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2011-10-19 02:45:33 AM
All eyes are on these bunch of spuds sitting in the senate.
 
2011-10-19 03:05:49 AM
I'm waiting to see what the common taters have to say about this.
 
2011-10-19 03:19:41 AM
Yukon say all you want about Congress, that it's controlled by starch conservatives or starch liberals, but finally they've started poutine their differences (and there's a whole latke them) aside, taken this bill and russet into the trashcan, where it belongs.

/they probably didn't want to get rid of something they could count to...
 
2011-10-19 03:45:08 AM
This just proves that senators can count to potato.
 
2011-10-19 06:22:44 AM
My slow clap processor applauds this.
 
2011-10-19 06:26:46 AM
SnarfVader: My slow clap processor applauds this.

Good, because I'm a potato.
 
2011-10-19 06:29:07 AM
Better they grow up diabetic and morbidly obese than the ag lobby doesn't get what it pays for.
 
2011-10-19 06:30:52 AM
Nothing wrong with feeding kids potatoes in school, they're cheap and versatile. And besides, a well fed child is more susceptible to being tot.
 
2011-10-19 06:31:54 AM
As a single, 24 year old man looking for quick and easy meals, potatoes make for some seriously good eats.
 
2011-10-19 06:36:46 AM
What will the mentally challenged count to now?
 
2011-10-19 06:40:08 AM
Potato chips and french fries are just flat out evil unless they are prepared properly. They're kind of like the fugu blowfish, except 98% of the time they're made wrong and slowly turn you into a blowfish.
 
2011-10-19 06:43:29 AM
Yeah, kids need to eat even more starchy carbohydrates because they don't get enough of those elsewhere.

Green vegetables are commie foods anyway.
 
2011-10-19 06:44:17 AM
www.savingmoneyinmissouri.com

Not amused.
 
2011-10-19 06:46:13 AM
How about you put down that game controller and get up off your morbidly obese twelve year old ass, and go outside and play. When I was in school, fatties were the exception. Not the rule. This country is seriously screwed.
 
2011-10-19 06:48:48 AM
Why is it that foods deemed not healthy seem to be rising in price MUCH faster than other foods, prepared or not?

Potato chips have the highest inflation as well as ice cream. It appears to be artificial, if you will.
 
2011-10-19 06:50:12 AM
Feed the little 'uns potatoes - fine and dandy - just get them to do some sports too. More calories in than burnt equals fat motherfarkers.

It's science.
 
2011-10-19 06:50:32 AM
Approves!

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2011-10-19 06:50:38 AM
Matthew Keene: How about you put down that game controller and get up off your morbidly obese twelve year old ass, and go outside and play. When I was in school, fatties were the exception. Not the rule. This country is seriously screwed.

and they were mocked, as they should be.
 
2011-10-19 06:52:18 AM
Would everyone please calm it the fark down with the potato bashing. Potatoes don't make you fat, not doing shiat all day makes you fat. Play a sport for god's sake!
 
2011-10-19 06:55:27 AM
Next thing you know, we'll have potato gun control.
 
2011-10-19 07:06:49 AM
And many critics said the proposal ignores schools that have long since taken the "fry" out of french fry. Though they may be fried as part of initial processing, many schools are now preparing them with little grease and no crispiness, serving them to kids as a healthier option.

Non-crispy french fries? What the hell is this crap?!
 
2011-10-19 07:19:39 AM
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2011-10-19 07:23:03 AM
Stoutpants: As a single, 24 year old man looking for quick and easy meals, potatoes make for some seriously good eats.

Damn right.

Just finished eating re-heated leftover mashed potatoes from last nights dinner for breakfast. yum. I was too lazy to make potato pancakes.
 
2011-10-19 07:25:52 AM
Kids aren't fat because of the options available at their schools.

They're fat because they have sh*tty parents.

/now get off my lawn
 
2011-10-19 07:28:54 AM
We came here for THIS?


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2011-10-19 07:29:27 AM
The proposed USDA changes would have limited the amount of starch in school children's diets -- from potatoes to lima beans. Which would have been a good thing, but lobbyists from agribusiness got their way. It doesn't matter how much exercise children get, subsisting off meat and starch is not healthy.
 
2011-10-19 07:31:34 AM
urban.derelict: They're fat because they have sh*tty parents.

It took 24 comments.
 
2011-10-19 07:32:30 AM
I sprinkled baking powder over a couple of potatoes but it didn't work.
 
2011-10-19 07:33:22 AM
I yam serious, this is one sweet bill.
 
2011-10-19 07:47:09 AM
Remember, Potatoes are teh Devil's Food™!
Bank transfer clears.
As I was saying, potatoes are not teh Devil's Food™!


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2011-10-19 07:48:53 AM
Deep-fried foods are good because they keep away teh ghey.

(So do incandescant light bulbs.)
 
2011-10-19 07:53:27 AM
chaddsfarkprefect: Why is it that foods deemed not healthy seem to be rising in price MUCH faster than other foods, prepared or not?

Potato chips have the highest inflation as well as ice cream. It appears to be artificial, if you will.




When the Colombians started importing cocaine into the US, they did so at barely break even prices, if not at a loss. Once a good number of people were addicted, the prices went up, quickly.
 
2011-10-19 07:59:42 AM
Potatoes are not the problem...lazy people are the problem

Potatoes are one of the most nutriitious things to eat....and this "too many starches" thing is BS. People who attack potatoes are the same ones who will hand you a granola bar and tell you how nutritious it is...but never look at the label (as much fat as a stick of butter)
 
2011-10-19 08:10:24 AM
www.davidandgoliathtees.com
 
2011-10-19 08:14:04 AM
Hooray! French Freedom Fries and potatoe chips are healthy vegetables again!
 
2011-10-19 08:21:13 AM
This is legislation I can get behind.
 
2011-10-19 08:22:08 AM
UCFRoadWarrior: Potatoes are not the problem...lazy people are the problem

Potatoes are one of the most nutriitious things to eat....and this "too many starches" thing is BS. People who attack potatoes are the same ones who will hand you a granola bar and tell you how nutritious it is...but never look at the label (as much fat as a stick of butter)


Not that you're an idiot or anything, but you're an idiot: Maybe a liar?

Fat in 2 bars of Nature Valley Chocolate Oats Granola: 70 calories (total calories 190)

Fat in a stick of butter : 810 calories. (total calories 81)

So which is it, stupid or liar?
 
2011-10-19 08:23:18 AM
ghare: ...
Fat in a stick of butter : 810 calories. (total calories 810)
..


FTFM
 
2011-10-19 08:25:39 AM
Captain_Ballbeard: Better they grow up diabetic and morbidly obese than the ag lobby doesn't get what it pays for.

Bingo - we have a winner thanks for writing in . . .

Scumbags, or is it Moneybags or one and the same? I can never tell
 
2011-10-19 08:26:38 AM
Stop demonizing frying and learn to fry properly, a properly fried batch of fries will have less added fat than so called healthy alternative oven fries.
 
2011-10-19 08:28:09 AM
ghare: UCFRoadWarrior: Potatoes are not the problem...lazy people are the problem

Potatoes are one of the most nutriitious things to eat....and this "too many starches" thing is BS. People who attack potatoes are the same ones who will hand you a granola bar and tell you how nutritious it is...but never look at the label (as much fat as a stick of butter)

Not that you're an idiot or anything, but you're an idiot: Maybe a liar?

Fat in 2 bars of Nature Valley Chocolate Oats Granola: 70 calories (total calories 190)

Fat in a stick of butter : 810 calories. (total calories 81)

So which is it, stupid or liar?


In his defense, he was talking about the new Land O' Lakes Super Butter Granola Butter Fried Dough Butter Granola Bar. I think they had them at The Big E.
 
2011-10-19 08:28:30 AM
Came for PotaDOS... Leaving like the bird she wants to kill.
 
2011-10-19 08:31:22 AM
2.bp.blogspot.com
fricken' idiots!
 
2011-10-19 08:31:46 AM
RobSeace: And many critics said the proposal ignores schools that have long since taken the "fry" out of french fry. Though they may be fried as part of initial processing, many schools are now preparing them with little grease and no crispiness, serving them to kids as a healthier option.

Non-crispy french fries? What the hell is this crap?!


I can bake some crips french fries easily. No need for greese or a frier. And I love the taste better then those deep fried.
 
2011-10-19 08:33:22 AM
UCFRoadWarrior: Potatoes are not the problem...lazy people are the problem

Potatoes are one of the most nutriitious things to eat....and this "too many starches" thing is BS. People who attack potatoes are the same ones who will hand you a granola bar and tell you how nutritious it is...but never look at the label (as much fat as a stick of butter)


You do realize that butter is a block if fat right?
 
2011-10-19 08:33:33 AM
UCFRoadWarrior: Potatoes are not the problem...lazy people are the problem

Potatoes are one of the most nutritious things to eat....and this "too many starches" thing is BS. People who attack potatoes are the same ones who will hand you a granola bar and tell you how nutritious it is...but never look at the label (as much fat as a stick of butter)


Potatoes are indeed healthy food..it's the oil, butter, sour cream, cheese...that people seems to drown them in that's unhealthy.
 
2011-10-19 08:36:13 AM
Center for Science in the Public Interest is not.
 
2011-10-19 08:45:13 AM
That was another one of those WTF moments, when he so often repeated this Sputnik moment that he would aspire Americans to celebrate. And he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space, yes, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.

So I listened to that Sputnik moment talk over and over again, and I think, No, we don't need one of those. You know what we need is a "spudnut" moment. And here's where I'm going with this, Greta. And you're a good one because you're one of those reporters who actually gets out there in the communities, find these hard-working people and find solutions to the problems that Americans face.

Well, the spudnut shop in Richland, Washington - it's a bakery, it's a little coffee shop that's so successful, 60-some years, generation to generation, a family-owned business not looking for government to bail them out and to make their decisions for them. It's just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop.

We need more spudnut moments in America. And I wish that President Obama would understand, in that heartland of America, what it is that really results in the solutions that we need to get this economy back on the right track. It's a shop like that.

-- Sarah Palin
 
2011-10-19 08:47:49 AM
Potatoes are very good for you. You would not be fat if you ate nothing but potatoes. So what are you waiting for? Start eating potatoes!

This educational message brought to you by a guy who loves potatoes.
 
2011-10-19 08:49:34 AM
jchic: Potatoes are indeed healthy food..it's the oil, butter, sour cream, cheese...that people seems to drown them in that's unhealthy.


Which is kinda the whole issue. Nobody eats potatoes raw or more precisely, noboby would eat a potato served raw. Raw carrots or celery or cucumbers? Yes. Potatoes? No way. They're pretty always slathered with fat so for all intents and purposes, potatoes really aren't all that good for you.
 
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