Monday 29 April 2013

Popeye

Which cricketer is nicknamed "Popeye"? This was a nickname bestowed on the Pakistan allrounder Abdul Razzaq, who some years ago was advised to eat lots of spinach, because it was healthy, and liked it so much he insisted on it being provide...d at almost every meal. His team-mates teasingly called him "Popeye", after the cartoon hero whose muscles improve whenever he gulps down a tin of the green stuff. During the 2004-05 Australian tour Razzaq had a bout of sickness that was initially blamed on eating too much spinach, although it's more likely that he had picked up a virus. "You can't get sick from eating safe and healthy food," he told the pakpassion website in 2008. "What happened was that I got a bit of food poisoning and that made me sick, that's all there is to it."
 

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