Popeye remains the world's greatest spinach salesman nearly a century after he made his comic-strip debut on the eve of the Great Depression. The sailor man's legend is recounted every March 26, ...

“I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach.” Popeye sang that lyric in many of the cartoons starring the super-strong Sailor Man. Indeed, he is so synonymous with spinach that he is still used ...

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CHESTER, Ill. -- Before Popeye the Sailor, Olive Oyl and Wimpy were the stars of a beloved comic strip, they walked the streets of this little town where their creator grew up. Popeye's real-life ...

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We've all been told to eat our greens. Even the cartoons we grew up with, like the spinach-swallowing Popeye the Sailor Man — who grew more powerful with every bite of the stuff — tried convincing us ...

Getting more spinach into your diet is simple. Don’t feel like you have to munch on salads all day or follow the “Dinosaur Time” TikTok trend (although you certainly can if you want to! I just prefer ...

If you were a kid raised anytime between the 1930s and the 1970s — or raised by someone who was raised then — chances are good that you grew up with the idea that spinach was a muscle builder par ...

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