All eyes are on these bunch of spuds sitting in the senate.

I'm waiting to see what the common taters have to say about this.

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...

This just proves that senators can count to potato.

My slow clap processor applauds this.

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.

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.

Next thing you know, we'll have potato gun control.

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?!

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

It took 24 comments.

I sprinkled baking powder over a couple of potatoes but it didn't work.

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.

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.

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