Answer:
I love spinach.
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
A trail, a union, together tied. Come across me and you will find you cannot change the course I'm on. Without me you cannot travel on. What am I?
Born in the ocean and white as snow. When I fall back to water I disappear without a trace.
The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?