My mother used to feed me ’dark green lettuce’ as salad, I loved it even when I was a kid.
I think I was 17 and I had a friend over for dinner, asked my mom for seconds of dark green lettuce. Friend looks at me like I’m nuts, “Uh, you mean spinach?”
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