Monday, September 18, 2006

TERRORISTS AND KILLER VEGETABLES

Terrorists.
Cigarettes.
AIDS.
Cholesterol.
Speed...
On the highway and in your body.
AND THEN THERE IS SPINACH!
Popeye just got a black eye.
But wait, he didn't eat fresh spinach.
Whew! Thank goodness!
The little bugger that has recently contaminated the leafy green is the bacterium called E.coli.
I hated the taste of spinach until I lived in Afghanistan.
A part of my very first meal in Kabul was spinach with lots of the buttery-tasting oil from a lamb's tail.
I ate it.
I liked it!
What I didn't like was the little pebble that I crunched on.
This was one word in Farsi I never forgot:
sang.
Now I eat a can of spinach every week.
POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN...

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