Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye.. and science
Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye.. and science (Photo / CNN) Sat, 3 Jul 2021, 10:03AM 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 excellence. We owe that notion to a comic-strip cartoonist named Elzie Crisler Segar, who created a character that he based on a rough-edged, hard-drinking local from his Illinois hometown. Segar christened the character "Popeye," a sailor who debuted in a strip in 1929. By 1933, when...