What's up with eating spinach?

[1976_Child]

Some times I don't get modern culinary fads. In my day spinach was not only a leafy delight but also a cosmic inter-stellar beam of rosemary and sausage all packaged in a mobile phone with one of those really annoying novelty ring tones. Since those halcyon days the spinach leaf has been brought back to earth and now has more in common with a transistor radio sitting on a bench behind a washing line. Sometimes it makes me sad that there is so much anti-spinach sentiment around these days. I mean what has spinach ever done to anyone except possibly invent the one armed bandit and swallow a whole giraffe sized igloo. I give up.

[Smirking_Saint]

Look what it did to popeye

 

[TopGun]

Spinach is ok but it is not as good with cheese as cauliflower or brocolli.

[Saint in Paradise]

Spinage is very bad for people who suffer from kidney stones, something in it seems to hasten their formation.

[sadoldgit]

When I was a kid spinach was boiled to within an inch of its life and tasted foul. Nowdays, with onion and garlic it is the dog's danglies

[St Landrew]

Essential ingredient in the Greek dish Spanakopita, and as such, is invaluable. Also currys well.

[thesaint sfc]

Sag Aloo (L)

[Liquidshokk]

I like crispy seaweed

[Jillyanne]

I like crispy seaweed

 

Not actually seaweed though is it.

[Liquidshokk]

Crispy seaweed isnt seaweed!?

 

Those pesky chinese types!

Edited 11 March, 2010 by Liquidshokk

[Deppo]

I'm strong to the finish,

'cos I eats me spinach...

[BadgerBadger]

Spinage is very bad for people who suffer from kidney stones, something in it seems to hasten their formation.

 

Apparently cranberry juice is good for stopping them forming

[hamster]

Spinach is renowneded for it's high Iron content. Hence the Popeye nonsense.

 

In actual fact the myth came from a misprint in a Marvel comic back in the early 1920's, where a misplaced decimal point put it at numver one in the Iron steaks.

 

Spinach actually has a lower Iron content than table salt. FACTOID

[tpbury]

Spinach is renowneded for it's high Iron content. Hence the Popeye nonsense.

 

In actual fact the myth came from a misprint in a Marvel comic back in the early 1920's, where a misplaced decimal point put it at numver one in the Iron steaks.

 

Spinach actually has a lower Iron content than table salt. FACTOID

 

I read that you had to eat a roomful of Spinach to get any value out of it Iron wise. Similarly, you needed to drink a swimming pool's worth of guiness.

[CB Saint]

I read that you had to eat a roomful of Spinach to get any value out of it Iron wise. Similarly, you needed to drink a swimming pool's worth of guiness.

 

One of your examples is somewhat more appealing than the other:drinkers: