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First Bite





Date/Time 17 Mar 2014 7:01:15am
While I watched Popeye eating spinach every episode, it never inspired me to eat it. Looking back, it was always canned spinach, the nutritional content of which was probably not much better than the paper on the outside of the can. By the way, his arch enemy's name was Brutus.

Having enjoyed fresh salad leaves I was able to buy in supermarkets in a plastic bag in Toronto, I was struck that the only spinach I could buy in Sydney was actually silverbeet, but I had to buy a half kilo bunch (shopkeepers imagine that everyone lives in families of six would will eat this in one sitting) whereas I wanted to buy just a little to include in a salad. I thus didn't eat spinach for years.
