Congrats Coach Gundy

Congratulations to Oklahoma State's Coach Mike Gundy on being named the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year! He has been a incredible influence on the team. He has turned the program around and made them a college football force to be respected! He truly deserves the honor and I'm proud to have him as a coach in the State! Way to go Mike!

Pizza Pizza on the Wall

The United States Congress can surely piss its contingency off. Failure to get anything accomplished, constant bickering and back stabbing, but declaring pizza a vegetable? This has been on the news a bit the last week or so.

However, that's not really what Congress did. They passed the agriculture appropriations bill and in doing so they made it easier to count pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables. They never said pizza was a vegetable. The discussion is really about tomato paste.

Tomato paste gets special treatment under school lunch rules. Just 1/8 of a cup is considered the same as a half a cup of vegetables. The regulation that was almost changed would force a volume of fruits or vegetables to be counted as its actual serving size. Congress, however, blocked this changes, and tomato paste gets to keep its extra credit.

There is some merit to giving tomato paste the extra credit. One-eighth cup of tomato paste is quite similar in nutritional value to one cup of apples.

So, anyway, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable!