How did the reference originate?

Okay, this is how my brain works.



I was just watching TV, flipping around. I caught the local 11 p.m. news, and there was a special report on about the E. coli-infested spinach scare.

Everytime they referred to the "tainted" spinach, I giggled like a thirteen year-old.

"Taint" is nothing other than a funny word. It should only be used in the funny sense from now on, if only to keep people like me from giggling like said thirteen year-old.


They said "taint" three times.
I counted.