when i was small, i used to watch Popeye cartoons alot and i was convinced that eating a can of spinach would give me super-strength. i kept pestering my mom for canned spinach, until she finally gave in. YUCKO! i ate a few bites, went outside and attempted to lift our house off its foundation. no luck. i though maybe i hadn't eaten enough of the spinach, so i went back inside and forced down the entire contents of the can. when i failed to lift the house after that, i knew i'd been tricked. the whole Popeye story was a fake.
A childhood belief about cartoons
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I ate spinach I would have a lot of strength (Popeye)— Fernando
- I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.— Corrine
- I believed Popeye when he said spinach made him strong. Yuk Yuk Yuk— johnboy
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I used to belive if someone liftes you up, and you lift them at the same time, you will float in the air.— D'Anthony
- I thought it was impossible for anyone to lift more than their own body weight. Just seemed to make sense..— Xenomorph