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Spilled Milk

Episode 379: MSG

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey Molly.

0:01.0

Matthew, I'm still chewing.

0:03.0

What if I told you that one of your favorite podcast host was going to be on Jeopardy on Monday night,

0:09.4

April 8th, 2019?

0:11.2

Oh, do you mean Terry Gross? No, guess again.

0:14.0

Uyberglass.

0:15.0

Nope. Oh, oh, Matthew Amster Burton.

0:18.0

That's right.

0:19.0

Tune into your local Jeopardy affiliate at 7 or 7.30 p.m. on Monday night April 8th if you're

0:26.8

listening to this after that too late. See you in front of the TV.

0:31.6

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

0:38.4

delicious eat it all and you can't have any and today we are talking about

0:42.1

MSG.

0:44.0

As our listeners may know, June has become a fan of the show.

0:47.5

And she was asking me yesterday what we were going to be taping today.

0:51.0

Oh yeah, this is interesting.

0:52.0

Trying to explain MSG to her. today. Oh yeah, this is interesting. Interesting.

0:53.0

M.S.G. to her.

0:55.0

I got nowhere.

0:56.0

Well, I think you would start with it's like salt.

0:59.0

I was like, it's the thing that makes foods taste more like themselves it's it's in

1:05.8

prosciutto it's in tomatoes it's cooked tomatoes it's in

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