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Spilled Milk

Episode 119: Prunes

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:10.4

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

0:15.0

Yeah, that's our new policy.

0:16.8

We're doubling down on you can't have any.

0:19.2

And today we're talking about prunes.

0:21.2

Yeah, everybody's favorite laxative or are we talking about dried plums the name the prune growers came up with that so that you would stop associating their product only with laxatives.

0:32.0

Yeah, what do you think about the old dried plums? associating their product only with laxatives.

0:32.6

Yeah, what do you think about the old dried plum marketing push?

0:36.0

Well, I mean, I was, it seems like, you know, it was like a big joke at the time and

0:41.0

yet it seems like it's like semi worked in the sense that I think the

0:45.4

No actually the the prunes that I bought today sometimes I buy the super rocket prunes and sometimes the trader Joes and these are traitor Joe's pitted prunes grown in California.

0:54.0

Hmm.

0:55.0

Well, either way, I think it's pretty sad that prunes have gotten a bum wrap, literally.

1:00.0

Did you prepare that before you came in? literally.

1:03.0

Did you prepare that before you came in?

1:05.0

I thought of it literally a split second before saying it.

1:07.0

Okay, I'm genuinely impressed.

1:09.0

Yeah, I mean, there's a reason why you hired me to do this show.

1:12.0

Yeah, because I looked at I mean there's a reason why you hired me to do this show.

1:13.2

Yeah, because I looked at your resume

1:15.5

and it was all but jokes.

1:18.0

Anyway, prunes might be my very favorite dried fruit.

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