# What's your kryptonite? What's your spinnach? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 1, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892 "2006-08-01T16:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/1 "2006-08-01T16:00:14Z")
**Kryptonite** : You are powerless against it, and unable to remove yourself from its presence. What substance can immediately sap you of your strength and will? **Spinnach** : It can rouse you from the drowsiest drowse, it’s what enables you to dig deepest and come through in a crisis. Curiously enough, for me, both answers are coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/2 "2006-08-01T16:10:28Z")
**Kryptonite** : Dogs. Stupid phobia. **Spinach** : Coffee. It is the greatest of God’s gifts to us. (I know some people think that’s wrong, that God’s greatest gift is love–but love s not available for all, whereas a good cuppa joe is.) ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/3 "2006-08-01T16:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] **Kryptonite** : You are powerless against it, and unable to remove yourself from its presence. What substance can immediately sap you of your strength and will? **Spinnach** : It can rouse you from the drowsiest drowse, it’s what enables you to dig deepest and come through in a crisis. Curiously enough, for me, both answers are coffee. [/QUOTE] **Kryptonite:** A woman, whom I have known previously or not, showing considerably more than strictly social interest in me… **Spinach:** A woman, whom I have known previously or not, showing consi… Well, you get the idea…I notice that **Inigo** mentions that his strength AND weakness are both coffee. I wonder if that might not be a common point, that one’s strength, AND one’s weakness are often one and the same? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/4 "2006-08-01T16:13:44Z")
**Kryptonite** : Tequila. Puts me on the floor everytime **Spinach** : Beer. Most of the greatest things I have accomplished in this life I have done because of beer. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/5 "2006-08-01T16:22:06Z")
As a mostly-carnivore, my Kryptonite is, ironically, spinach. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/6 "2006-08-01T16:31:17Z")
**Kryptonite** : Bugs. God I hate bugs. Big ones, little ones, flying ones, crawling ones. Gah. Also mice. I suppose rats, except I’ve never actually run across one, thank goodness. Pretty much anything that qualifies as a creepy-crawly. Especially those damned bugs, though. **Spinach** : Coffee. I love coffee even more than I hate bugs. ---
**Author:** ![shizaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@shizaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shizaru)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/7 "2006-08-01T19:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] **Kryptonite** : You are powerless against it, and unable to remove yourself from its presence. What substance can immediately sap you of your strength and will? **Spinnach** : It can rouse you from the drowsiest drowse, it’s what enables you to dig deepest and come through in a crisis. Curiously enough, for me, both answers are coffee. [/QUOTE] **Kryptonite** : Women crying. A crying woman I can’t stand to see. It makes me want to do ridiculous things to make them stop crying, like driving 75 miles to help (true story) or spending a few hundred bucks to cheer them up (true story). Luckily for me, its a controlled weakness. both of those examples happened to me, but i don’t regret them. It always depends on the situation. But its a weakness. A womans tears can always sway me. Spinach: Self preservation. If i’m scared enough I’ve done things I didn’t think I was capable of. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/8 "2006-08-01T19:05:15Z")
Kryptonite _and_ Spinach: Starbucks Iced Vanilla Chai Latte. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/9 "2006-08-01T19:11:15Z")
**Kryptonite** : Cleavage. Must see skin - while fully covered is still quite nice, it’s the plunging neckline that weakens my knees and my resolve. **Spinach** : Spelling _spinach_ properly 🆒 Actually, I’ll have to say caffeine, whether in coffee, tea, or Mountain Dew Code Red form. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/10 "2006-08-01T19:23:15Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] As a mostly-carnivore, my Kryptonite is, ironically, spinach. [/QUOTE] And as a comic book fan, my spinach is, ironically, Kryptonite. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/11 "2006-08-01T19:42:23Z")
**Kryptonite:** Women’s legs and feet. **Spinach** : Strong coffee with heavy cream. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/12 "2006-08-01T20:31:54Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] **Kryptonite:** Women’s legs and feet. **Spinach** : Strong coffee with heavy cream. [/QUOTE] What happens if a ridiculously hot woman with to-die-for legs, wearing a minsksirt, delivers you a refill on said coffee? ---
**Author:** ![shizaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@shizaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shizaru)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/13 "2006-08-01T21:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] What happens if a ridiculously hot woman with to-die-for legs, wearing a minsksirt, delivers you a refill on said coffee? [/QUOTE] you explode. Or feel like it. it happened…really. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/14 "2006-08-01T21:40:52Z")
Kryptonite: Alchohol Spinach: Sex Unfortunatly my kryptonite and my spinach have have been inexorably intertwined most of my life…I’m trying to stick to sex from now on. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/15 "2006-08-01T21:41:03Z")
**Kryptonite:** Snakes and big spiders. I hate snakes. They just freak me out. Itty-bitty spiders that I can step on and squash are okay, but the big hairy ones are scary. **Spinach:** A well-timed compliment. Kind words can go a long way. Also, just to jump on the band wagon, a big cup of coffee, with fake sweetener and real cream. I wasn’t sure, and then when I read the other replies, that seemed appropriate. Nothing like a big ole cuppa joe. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/16 "2006-08-01T22:33:43Z")
**Red Kryptonite** - Jagermeister. Remember how you never knew what would happen to Superman when he was exposed? I feel the same way about Jagermeister. As soon as the first shot goes down, it’s Anything Can Happen Day. **Green Kryptonite** - Dunkin’ Donuts Boston Kremes. Left alone in a room full of these donuts, I would eat myself into a food coma not seen since that guy exploded in that Monty Python movie. I shit you not. **Spinach** - Coffee is the obvious answer. Then again, a Black Cherry Fresca is nearly as invigorating these days. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/17 "2006-08-02T18:08:33Z")
Kryptonite: Visible women’s cleavage, especially when the women is plump and busty. This exerts a near-irresistable fascination. Spinach: things that get me through times of great struggle? Not so easy to think of. Possibly Pepsi (I hate coffee). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/18 "2006-08-02T18:09:42Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] What happens if a ridiculously hot woman with to-die-for legs, wearing a minsksirt, delivers you a refill on said coffee? [/QUOTE] I kiss her feet. What else? ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/19 "2006-08-02T20:29:33Z")
**Kryptonite:** Television. I hate that idiot box. If there’s one on in a room, it takes damn near all my concentration to not watch it. No matter how crappy whatever’s on, it draws me in and slowly kills my brain cells off one by one … **Spinach:** _We all hail to the great black bean, all glory to the god Caffeine!_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892/20 "2006-08-02T20:51:49Z")
**Kryptonite:** Solitude. Most of the biggest regrets in my life are things I did due to loneliness and/or horniness. I don’t do “alone” very well at all. ☹ **Spinach:** Until fairly recently, I would have said “MDMA.” Now, I would say exercise. A good workout leaves me happy, relaxed and focused for the next day or two (at which point, ideally, I go work out again). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite-whats-your-spinnach/366892.md?page=2)