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Salt with spinach? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

popeye

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(Other definitions for popeye that I've seen before include "Spinach-eating sailor" , "Spinach-eating cartoon character" , "The Sailor Man" , "comic sailor" , "I eat spinach" .)

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