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Article: Fresh spinach is growing on us
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CANDY SAGON , The Washington Post
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-20-2005
Fresh spinach is growing on us
By CANDY SAGON , The Washington Post
Date: 04-20-2005, Wednesday
Section: FOOD
Edtion: All Editions
We've become a nation of Popeyes.
We are eating record amounts of spinach - five times more fresh spinach than we did in the 1970s and the highest levels since the 1950s, when parents urged their kids to eat spinach to be strong, just like the animated cartoon sailor.
The big difference is that Popeye ate his spinach straight from a can to give him strength before he pummeled his nemesis, Bluto. Americans today have all but abandoned the can for fresh spinach.
According to figures from the U.S. ...