Today is Popeye's 78th birthday. He first appeared in a comic strip called Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Since then he has become a fictional beloved character who was perhaps one of the pioneers of healthy living. He must have known that spinach is a great source of iron because he consumes multiple cans of spinach to get big and strong to fight the bad guys. Like Popeye, spinach is my favorite green. It's so versatile ...