Ever since I started eating frozen spinich as

a child it has been one of my favorites.

Which vegetable do you like?

There was one occassion, though, when I almost

had the love of spinich come back to haunt me.

Our family had just moved to a new town,and we

were in an interim new school (until the folks

found a house to buy).

At the time we were really impressed because the

school had a cafeteria with hot food for lunch.  That

was a first for us.

The very first day we had money for lunch, and they

had spinich.  Was I in heaven.  Ok, but I hadn’t tasted

it yet.  I just told the lady to pile it on, that I loved

spinich. Ha.  Boy was I sorry.

I guess instead of frozen spinich that this was the old

fashioned canned spinich. Barf.  it was horrible.  And

there I was with a big full plate of it, and lunch teachers

saying that we had to eat what was on our plate (those

were the days of eat because someone in china is

starving).

I was so embarassed, and absolutely sure that if I

took another bite I would vomit all over the

cafeteria.

Somehow I convinced the lunch teachers that I needed

to leave and when I came back to the room the bell for recess

was ringing so I just bussed my tray and ran outside.

Never will forget that incident.