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I've never actually seen canned spinach. Maybe only sailors eat the stuff.

#1: Teresa Dickens (trdickens) on Feb 12, 2017

Maybe it's a southern thing... we have it several times a month.

It's pretty nasty, if you're used to fresh leaves. I would usually mix mine with a glob of Miracle Whip.

GAG!

It's an acquired taste.

With butter, salt, and pepper --- yum!

I grew up on it. Fresh is better, but when you don't know any different, canned tastes pretty good. I agree with Al - with butter, salt, and pepper.

Oh, and I grew up in the north (Michigan), so it's not just a southern thing (although I think they do far more greens here in the south than we did up north).

I live in the NW, and we ate it all the time when I was a kid.
I don't recall fresh spinach being popular until the late 90's
Definitely agree with the butter!

I grew up in the south, but to northern (OH and WA) parents.

I don't think I have ever seen spinach in a can but I will look the next time I get groceries. My dad boils his fresh spinach so much it might as well come out of a can. Good puzzle

Horrible stuff.

Awesome puzzle.

We can get canned spinach up here in the Northeast! Fresh is best when eaten in salads and with a meat and potato. But, canned and frozen are both good for spinach/artichoke dips, adding spinach to a lasagne for vitamins, or to add to a vegetable soup. If you don't like spinach then adding it to a dish can disguise the taste and give you plenty of iron!! Bon appetite!!

Fresh spinach good in salads. Cooked fresh or frozen spinach is delicious with a creamy cheese sauce. Canned spinach? Vile!

My mother served canned spinach, and I thought it was rather pungent. I forced myself to eat it. When I started buying my own groceries, I was reluctant to try fresh spinach, thinking it tasted the same as canned. I was wrong! Now I eat fresh spinach several times a week.

I like to use fresh spinach in place of lettuce, in salads and on sandwiches.

Fun fact: the idea that spinach is supercharged with iron came from a typo. The decimal was in the wrong spot, making everyone think that spinach has 10x more iron than it actually had. :)

EL R19

Thought it was a butterfly in a jar.

I tried an Italian restaurant here in Tennessee once. I got a sampler-style dinner and every bit of it was bad for different reasons...the spaghetti was cold and clumped together, the meatballs were nuclear hot with microwave scorching, but the worst offender was the lasagna, which had a thick layer of straight-from-the-can spinach. Made the whole thing taste briny-metallic-earthy-mushy. The whole time we were eating the owner was getting drunk two tables over having an increasing loud and increasingly destructive conversation about what kinds of promos to run to get more people to come..."hey, i have an idea or two and let's start with your cans of spinach"

it's-a train wreck!

I heard from a reliable source (NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me) that the IOC thought hard about banning spinach for athletes because it incurred an unfair advantage!

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by valerie.

To expand on what Wombi said in #16:

Line and color logic (sometimes complicated color logic) to 70%. Then edge logic on the 5 in row 19. Then line logic to finish.

This was fun to solve! I especially liked picking my way through the complicated color logic.

I used red to mark spaces in the green area that I was sure were not green, to help figure out which spaces *could* be green. Then I placed the greens, removed the red, and went on with the puzzle.

Canned spinach was a staple of school lunches when I was a kid. I brown-bagged it, but the smell made me gag. Today I eat mainly fresh spinach, but I keep a frozen package for cooking.

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