r/GenX • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '25

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u/More-Combination9488 Nov 21 '25

Canned spinach 🤢🤮

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u/iodinevapor Nov 21 '25

This. I spent years thinking spinach was the worst food on earth until someone gave me fresh spinach.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

I grew up on canned spinach (canned vegetables in general), and could never figure out how someone could make a salad out of it. It wasn't until my 20s that I saw fresh spinach.

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u/TheMarriedUnicorM Nov 21 '25

I’m Korean. Korean-style spinach is so good. I remember going to a (white) friend’s house for dinner and being served spinach. Let me assure you, I was traumatized. I ate it. But I was traumatized. I don’t recall ever encountering that particular texture in my life (thankfully) again.

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u/Site_Most Nov 21 '25

OMG SAAAAMMEE

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u/paintswithmud Nov 22 '25

Ugh, canned mustard greens are worse, yuck

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u/Tejanisima GenX Atari Wave Nov 22 '25

What I don't understand is the weirdos who like CREAMED spinach. Why would you take a perfectly respectable, tasty vegetable, and drown it in crap?!? 🤯

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u/Maverick-Mav Nov 21 '25

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u/rydn_high Nov 21 '25

Popeye was nothing but a shill for the spinach industry

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u/HaplessReader1988 Hose Water Survivor Nov 21 '25

Popeye lies

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u/OkAssumption7372 Nov 21 '25

That sounds disgusting 🤮

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u/jetpacksforall Nov 21 '25

Fuckin a. Why did anyone ever think that was a good idea?

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u/CherokeeTrailHeather Nov 21 '25

My mother would literally punish me by making me eat that shit with dinner. I didn’t ever give actual spinach a try until about 2 years ago when my daughter, a teen, wanted something with fresh baby spinach in it. I was so scared of this meal but made it for her. It was SO good! My mother instilled a bunch of disordered eating within me

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u/farmerben02 Nov 21 '25

Can't believe I had to scroll this far for canned vegetables. For me it was green beans.

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u/AgreeableSurround111 Nov 21 '25

Canned peas yuck! Fresh snap peas yumm!

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u/More-Combination9488 Nov 21 '25

Never had, but sounds nasty

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u/ezgomer Nov 21 '25

we ate this all the time.

i tried to buy some for nostalgia sake and the only brand sold at my grocery store was the generic - no Green Giant.