The connection between Popeye's physical strength and his consumption of canned spinach has become a pop culture touchstone, with the reference remaining readily recognizable even nearly a century ...

The Popeye-spinach myth persists, even though two generations may not even know who Popeye is. To recap: Popeye was a cartoon sailor who gained superhuman strength by eating canned spinach ...

Over the course of the past few years, several popular characters from television and movies have entered the public domain.

Pigs implanted with spinach genes have been created ... to see how genetic modification such as this can possibly be justifiable.' The Popeye pigs research was also condemned by the British ...