sentences:  Around 1987, Alma called itself the "Spinach Capital of the World" because the Allen Canning Company based in Alma canned more than half of all the spinach canned in the U.S., about annually.The town has had various statues of the cartoon character Popeye, because of his connection to canned spinach; the most recent one was erected in 2007.Cast in bronze, it sits atop a fountain holding a can of spinach.