Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottles and whisky bottles everywhere, and the windows were all blown off in storms and these strange cats would come in." On the play's opening night, storm-blown Carson "was so scared and so worked up I couldn't go, so I stayed home and ate spinach...
...Lone Star capital of Austin. They were even more startled by some of the tall tales Texans told until they realized that it was just gasconnade (as Frenchmen call the braggadocio of their own "Texans" of Gascony). In Crystal City, Texas, the world's self-styled spinach capital, the Gossets found a statue of Popeye in the public square...
Pass That Old-Fashioned Spinach...
...grow strong bones and teeth. If the child is getting lots of milk and has calcium to burn, the result may not be too bad, provided the oxalic salts do not rotate the bladder or turn into kidney stones. But if children are not getting enough milk and protein, spinach just makes things worse by cutting down the calcium available for the bones. As for the good things that are supposed to be in spinach, such as vitamin C and iron, the Bamjis suggest that these can be had as easily in more palatable foods...
...possible," they ask, "that the intense dislike of spinach shown by most children is nature's way of protecting them from its harmful effects? . . . May we suggest that, until further light is thrown on the subject, spinach should be considered a doubtful article of diet for children...