“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

We've become a nation of Popeyes. We are eating record amounts of spinach - five times more fresh spinach than we did in the 1970s and the highest levels since the 1950s, when parents urged their kids ...

Many of us grew up knowing all about Popeye, especially if he was used as an example for why you should eat your spinach. For some reason a little guy with frighteningly large fore arms was supposed ...