Ronald Reagan decided that ketchup is a vegetable

[maggrwaggr]

and fed it to our children as such.

[LTR]

1. Gotta go

I'm off to make a ketchup salad!

[Francis]

2. Well yes

It is classified as one serving of veg under the food pyramid, just doesn't mention the sugar

[supernova]

3. That was actually David Stockman

I think who said it at congressional hearings about the budget for that year.

Still, it sounded loony then and does now.