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Spilled Milk

Episode 127: Oatmeal

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2014

⏱️ 23 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

0:08.0

delicious eat it all and you can't have any and today we're talking about everyone's favorite institutional

0:14.0

slop, oatmeal. Do you have any memories of eating oatmeal when you were in prison?

0:19.1

Well you know I think it's interesting that we're calling it oatmeal because I think that like some people would just call it porridge.

0:28.5

Which people? Like, oat porridge or oatmeal porridge? Isatmeal I don't think anybody says oatmeal porridge

0:37.4

Maybe in our de kensian dreams I think maybe I mean we have we have uh... jema from Scotland is that right maybe

0:45.2

maybe she call it porridge or porridge or porridge or something that's that's a

0:49.8

nice tongue rolling yeah it's as much Scottish accent as you're going to get out of me.

0:54.0

So my memories of oatmeal as a kid involve mostly instant oatmeal from a packet.

1:02.0

And this was a juvy, right?

1:03.7

Yeah, this was a juvy.

1:05.4

Yeah, after I was caught shoplifting.

1:06.9

Actually, when I shoplifted, I never got caught.

1:09.2

I think we've established this about me.

1:11.2

What's the statute of limitations on that? Did I make that same joke

1:14.0

last time? I think you did. I think you did. So anyway, instant oatmeal in a packet. I think that

1:19.1

most of the time I would put brown sugar on it, but we did have a honeypot as a kid with like the little honey.

1:25.0

Really? Yes, like on the counter with like a little wooden honey dowel or whatever you call it.

1:32.9

I don't think I knew that was an actual thing.

1:35.0

However, Iris, my daughter and I recently had this conversation

1:38.1

where every time we go out on the way to school in the morning,

1:41.5

we see a robin with a worm dangling from its mouth

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