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<p>[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 35697, member: 103"]Owned -- Spinach in my childhood home:</p><p>Boil til the color of army fatigues, spoon into a tea strainer and squish (or squidge, if you prefer), plop on dinner plate. </p><p><br /></p><p>The liquid that did not get squished leaks out into the potatoes and the pork chop. The potato is eaten. The pork chop is eaten. The barrow-shaped mound of spinach remains. Mention is made of the starving children in China. Mention is made of sitting until the pile disappears...somehow. Mention is made of my obvious need for iron in my system. (?!) Tears. More tears. Huge envy of those Chinese children. Two hours later, the cold, slimy mess goes down my throat.</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother had a much better solution. He stuffed such things in the underpinnings of the dining room table.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 35697, member: 103"]Owned -- Spinach in my childhood home: Boil til the color of army fatigues, spoon into a tea strainer and squish (or squidge, if you prefer), plop on dinner plate. The liquid that did not get squished leaks out into the potatoes and the pork chop. The potato is eaten. The pork chop is eaten. The barrow-shaped mound of spinach remains. Mention is made of the starving children in China. Mention is made of sitting until the pile disappears...somehow. Mention is made of my obvious need for iron in my system. (?!) Tears. More tears. Huge envy of those Chinese children. Two hours later, the cold, slimy mess goes down my throat. My brother had a much better solution. He stuffed such things in the underpinnings of the dining room table.[/QUOTE]
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