Alan And Arlene Alda Bonded Over A Fallen Rum Cake

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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"Flirting over food is really the best way to flirt," says actor Alan Alda, and he would know. He met his wife, Arlene, at a dinner party in college. A rum cake fell off the top of a refrigerator, and Arlene and Alan were the only ones to grab a fork and eat it off the floor.

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0:00.0	Usually we just get people's levels and their voices.
0:04.8	You just tell me, Arlene, what have you had to eat so far today?
0:08.1	Two boiled eggs soft.
0:11.3	How many minutes?
0:12.3	Four.
0:13.3	Oh, that's very soft.
0:14.3	Yeah, very, very good.
0:16.3	Runny.
0:17.3	Yes.
0:18.3	On some bread or anything?
0:19.3	Yeah, bread next to it.
0:20.3	I kind of scooped it out and when it spilled onto the bread, I ate the bread.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.2	So you break the runny egg next to the bread.
0:29.6	Then you get some yolk loss with that strategy.
0:32.1	Okay.
0:33.1	Yeah, the yolk actually runs down the shell.
0:36.4	Yeah, you get yolk loss.
0:38.4	Definitely get yolk loss.
0:40.2	Okay.
0:41.2	It's my loss that the yolk is lost.
0:43.4	That's what I'm saying.
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