"I's strong to da finish, cause I eats me spinach!"

Two personal trivia notes from when I was a wee tot:

1. I used to call spinach "Pop-Eye".

2. The first book I learned to read on my own was a Pop-Eye storybook.

Still love spinach to this day, propaganda and decimal misplacements or not.

Originally shared by +Les Jenkins:

Popeye and the Great Spinach Myth
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.Everyone knows Popeye the sailor. And everyone knows his secret. Whenever the cartoon sailor is on the verge of a fight, he squeezes open a can of spinach, pours the greens down his throat, and uses his muscles to pummel his opponent (almost inevitably fellow sailor Bluto, his arch-enemy.)As an interesting sidebar, in…

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