healthy foods – Go Retire Psychiatrist

Sena just told me today is National Spinach Day. Naturally this means she is going to prepare a big whopping mess of spinach for us to eat. She also recently ordered a 100-gallon keg of Super Beets supplement capsules as part of her health food project. She drank the Super Beet Kool-Aid, if you know what I mean.

I guess Popeye the sailor man is still one of the best spokespersons for spinach, which I actually sort of like when it’s soaked in vinegar for about a year or so. When I was a kid, I used to watch Popeye cartoons. The basic storyline is Bluto uses Popeye for punching bag until a can of spinach weighing a metric ton drops out of the sky on Bluto. This never taught Bluto a lesson.

In honor of National Spinach Day, we’ll probably have a platter of Florentine chicken fricassee with a pound of spinach simmered with extraterrestrial brain lobes paired with Bigfoot armpit glands and a glass of chilled free range beagle pee layered with beet juice. Yum.

Maybe just a salad. Happy National Spinach Day!

spinach, beets and leeks and fig vinaigrette

Picture credit: Pixydotorg. I’m not sure about exactly when Popeye goes into the public domain. There are different dates on the web. But the picture is free on Pixydotorg.

National Spinach Day!

Sena bought a bag of Spicy Sriracha Lentil Chips yesterday. They’re at the center of an extraterrestrial news flash on the web site of the company, The Daily Crave, which sells a lot of healthier snack food items. They’re mainly plant-based.

Apparently, extraterrestrials are known to have a tendency to get addicted to lentils. What proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the website listing for The Daily Crave is directly below the website listing for the Reddit description of the Star Trek: Next Generation episode (S01E19) which details the sale of lentils to aliens. Lentils are a highly addictive drug to extraterrestrials, although they tend to bore me—and a lot of other snackers. Funny, I can’t find anything about it in the Wikipedia entry for that 1988 episode entitled “Coming of Age.” And I didn’t watch it.

Can you beat that? I love science!

The Daily Crave news item (“Crop Circles coincide with missing new snack displays”) on the website differs from what’s on our bag, which has the headline “Missing Snack Displays Blamed on Aliens.”

There’s also a Lentils meme for the Ancient Aliens hair guy, Giorgio Tsoukalos. It’s like almost all of the memes: a picture of him with his wild hair and a weird fake quote. This one has the word “Lentils” on it. What more proof do you need to support government funding of a Lentils Anonymous (LA) program for aliens?

On the other hand, you have to wonder whether dusting a little sriracha on lentil chips would make them taste zestier instead of just making me load them up with chip dip, a substance known to instantaneously transform humans into aliens.

There are also several flavors for Quinoa Chips (pronounced KEEN-wah). Quinoa is also very good for you. Contrary to popular belief, Himalayan Salt Quinoa Chips will not grow hair on your chest, according to many extraterrestrial scientists.