Good News for Popeye

Canned spinach is still okay, and that's good news for Popeye, but don't buy the bagged stuff. James Lileks explains why as only he can:

Oh, and speaking of which: I go through about two bags of spinach a week, since it’s a great source of spinach. This week I went to a mixed jumble of greens – some white spines, some bitter inedible lettuces that tasted like lawn grass, and other varieties that were left on the floor in the Dole’s Abattoir of Salad. Today I learned that bagged spinach is being recalled – not fondly, either, nor with a wistful expression of nostalgia – because it’s loaded with Wile E. Coli. Usually you expect that in undercooked cow. You don’t want to know how it got into lettuce. You really, really don’t.

Good stuff (not the spinach, but the writing).