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Spilled Milk

Episode 135: Toast

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2014

⏱️ 22 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

0:08.5

delicious eat it all and you can't have any And today we are talking about toast. I feel like this is like a really

0:15.9

trendy topic right now. Toast is having a moment. Yeah, for a few minutes there, everyone was

0:22.0

talking about the $4 toast right yeah and I

0:24.5

feel like some people are still talking about the four dollar toast I think the

0:27.8

main place I think of as being the home of the four dollar toast is the mill

0:31.9

in San Francisco.

0:33.6

But this is also happening, I understand,

0:35.2

from the most recent episode, I mean issue of Bonapetie

0:38.8

at a place called Squirrel in LA.

0:41.0

People are lining up for toast. Did you listen to I want to say it was

0:47.4

radio lab either radio lab or this American life piece about the origin of the $4 toast.

0:54.0

No.

0:55.0

It started out as treatment for this woman's some schizophrenia type affliction.

1:01.0

What?

1:02.0

What? It's a fascinating story which we will link to. I don't want to try

1:05.3

and re-tell it because I will get it so wrong. It must be this American life

1:09.2

because I'm all cut up, caught up on Radio Lab. All right then we then we will post to that this American Live segment about toast as therapy.

1:18.0

Okay, well let's let we'll get back to the four dollar toast.

1:21.0

I'm sure that we're gonna have some strong opinions.

1:22.0

But you can see why toast would be therapy because it is I'm sure that we're going to have some strong opinions.

1:22.6

But you can see why toast would be therapy because it is one of the most comforting foods

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