U.S. government has spent $45,000 on marketing pumpkin donuts as a healthy food choice.

10 of the Craziest and Most Delicious Donuts - ODDEE: 
"While we're huge fans of donuts (who isn't?), we were shocked to learn that the U.S. government has spent $45,000 on marketing pumpkin donuts as a healthy food choice.
In his "Waste of the Week" speech, Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) said that the feds spent more than $290 million in taxpayer dollars over the past ten years on an agricultural grant program for business plan development and agricultural marketing. 
Citing one of the more egregious cases, Coats said a grant recipient received the money to market pumpkin donuts as healthy, locally produced food.

• Other equally bizarre uses of the grant money include processing olives, 
• and developing and marketing alcoholic beverages, 
• cheese, and 
• chicken. (Source)"