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Spilled Milk

Episode 115: Limes

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:07.5

For a free trial and 10% off, go to Squarespace.com and use the offer code Milk. and I'm

0:15.0

Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

0:22.2

delicious eat it all and you can't have any.

0:25.0

Today we are talking about what might be my favorite citrus, and that is the lime.

0:30.0

I think it's mine too.

0:31.0

We did lemons. We're here for the main event now.

0:34.4

We're here for the superior citrus.

0:37.0

We are here for the monster truck rally.

0:41.0

So, you know, I feel like everybody thinks about lemons. A lot of recipes call for lemons.

0:47.0

Lemons are like what you reach for. But limes, I think limes are really, they bring something special.

0:55.1

They have a, for me, a better blend of sweetness and acidity.

0:58.7

Yes, I think that's true.

0:59.7

I think they're, they're maybe a little bit less sour than lemons I think so but you know they just

1:06.3

have that irreplaceable lime flavor we're so good at describing them they

1:11.4

taste it is really limy. You know if you like

1:14.9

limes you're going to love lime. Yes and if you're ever on a long sea voyage and

1:19.2

you don't want to get scurvy you're really going to love lives. So, can we talk a little bit about different kinds of

1:27.0

of limes because limes are kind of cool?

1:30.0

Okay.

1:31.0

So, what, is there a name for what I think of as a normal lime?

1:34.8

I believe that's the Persian lime.

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