"I'm good to the finish, 'cause I eats me spinach..."

During dinner in Tokyo with some colleagues recently, a salad was served which seemed to perplex the Japanese people present.  The primary green in the salad seemed unusual and foreign to them.  I recognized this component as baby spinach, and when I told the eight or so Japanese men and women present what this was, they nearly all said in unison "Popeye!".

I would not have guessed this, but it appears Popeye was a very popular cartoon in Japan.  Geez, I hope they didn't see this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTdKidVYXo