In a recurring theme from the animated Popeye cartoons, the sailor character readies to serve his nephews Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye a good helping of spinach for their lunch, only for them to declare "But-we-hate-spinach!" and set their plates aside, to replace them with ice cream cones. Popeye sucks the content of their cones with his pipe and replaces it for portions of spinach. He says they should eat the greens if they wanted to be as strong as their great-great-great-great-great-uncle, the mythical Hercules. This piques their interest, so Popeye proceeds to tell them the story of how the usage of spinach in the family began.