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Spilled Milk

Episode 51: Banh Mi

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2011

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:11.3

delicious eat it all and, well maybe today you can have some.

0:15.4

Oh, wow, that's a change at pace.

0:18.0

I just decided to throw that in there.

0:19.4

What do you think?

0:20.4

Oh, you're feeling magnanimous.

0:21.4

I am.

0:22.4

Well, the sun just came out. Yeah Well the sun just as you were saying that.

0:24.5

Yeah, like the clouds opened. No, that makes it sound like it's raining. Anyway, we're talking about

0:28.9

Bond Me today. Yes, we're talking about Bond Me and you can have some. Really, we're talking about Bon Me, and you can have some.

0:33.7

Really, we're talking about Bon Me, but it's all about you.

0:38.1

Good one.

0:38.7

Yeah, thanks.

0:40.4

So what is Bon Me? So Bonme is a Vietnamese sandwich and it's a product of the French colonial era in Vietnam.

0:50.0

This history lesson is not going to last very long.

0:52.8

Don't worry.

0:53.8

It's some delicious Vietnamese season stuff

0:56.9

in a crusty baget.

0:58.6

And we should also point out that Bonmee itself means bread.

1:02.2

Yes. Okay. Yeah I was reading about this on

1:05.3

Wikipedia this morning and there was it said something like if somebody says they are

1:09.5

going to have a Bonme for breakfast this indicates that they are going to have a meat sandwich, not just a

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