Dear Prudence: The "You Gonna Eat That?" Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by writer Helen Rosner. She is the food correspondent for The New Yorker, and a former editor at places like Eater, Saveur, and New York Magazine.
Together they tackle letters about what to do when a lonely neighbor treats you as if you were her grandchild, what to do when a member of your fine dining club can no longer afford to pay, but insists on coming anyway, how to share your secret financial struggles with your husband, what actions to take when your mother-in-law fat shames you after your pregnancy. Prudie and Helen also respond to a voicemail from a woman who discovered a man on her disability focused message board who may be posing to get attention from women.
Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Helen discuss a letter writer who has conflicting feelings about her high school bully who recently committed suicide, and another letter from a woman who wants to reconnect with her ex through social media, but is being thwarted by her ex’s partner. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | To get the full-length, members-only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash Prudipod. |
| 0:17.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.0 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.7 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:24.0 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:27.4 | Help. |
| 0:27.8 | Help. |
| 0:28.3 | Thanks. |
| 0:28.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello. Hello and welcome back to The Dear Prudence Show once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Daniel Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:48.8 | With me in the studio this week is Helen Rosner, the food correspondent for The New Yorker, and a former editor at places like Eater. Ooh, I don't know how to say the name of this magazine. I've only ever seen it written down. Helen, how do you pronounce the second magazine in your bio? Sever. Sever. Severe. Severe. Oh, I would never have guessed that. Thank you. I would have said Severe. And New York Magazine. I can say that. Hi. Hi. Hi. It's so funny, because saver is actually a French word. Like, it's the word for flavor. And if you're saying it with a proper French accent, which I cannot do, you'd say like, severe. And I don't know, just sort of like by like Fiatra, the founders of the magazine were like, sever. |
| 1:29.6 | It's a French word that we're going to say with an American accent. |
| 1:32.3 | And we once had a French receptionist who would like answer the phone saying it properly. |
| 1:38.3 | Oh, God. |
| 1:38.8 | And I remember one of the editors had to sort of like pull him aside and gently correct his pronunciation. Be like, no, don't say it right. Say it wrong. Say it our way. |
| 1:49.6 | Grace has this theory that I can be tricked into learning French by making me guess it. |
| 1:56.3 | Like she'll just say phrases in French and say, what do you think that means? And I say, I don't know what it means. And I cannot make an educated guess. There's a limit to how much knowing a little Spanish can help me guess French. But that does not stop her from periodically saying things in French to me and making me guess. I support her effort. I mean, it seems like a fun game. It is delightful. |
| 2:20.7 | Neither of us ever quite gets what we want out of it, which feels like something that French ought to |
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