I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is Spilled Milk the show where we cook something delicious

eat it all and you can't have any and today we're talking about plums. Yeah. Is this

like our post Thanksgiving episode? No, this is pre Thanksgiving. Yeah, and I mean we

are taking this on Labor Day. We're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves. Yeah, I think

we also have pears coming up. I think we're going to complete the prunist trifecta. Yeah, this

episode is going to air after fresh plum season is over. But you know what, it's just going

to give you so much to look forward to. But you know, it's always fresh print season. That's true.

We're eating a plum cake, by the way. All right. Well, I've got some stuff to say about plums. Okay,

should we go down memory lane? Mm-hmm. Mo Wisenberg creator of Altoids was not just an end-ive

man. He was also a plum man. You think if we repeat this Altoids lie enough times, people will believe it?

I hope somebody's put it on Wikipedia. So I think of my dad as loving plums. And I don't just think

of him this way. He was this way. And he's not here to dispute it. Are you sure this isn't one of those

those flash bulb memories that's particularly prone to like incorrect. Well, nobody will ever pipe up

to prove me wrong, because I don't think my half siblings listen to this show. Right, and also,

and also, I mean, and my dad's dad. No, no, no, like, cares. That's true. Let's spread

a whole bunch of lies about my dad and plums. Okay, let's do it. No, but anyway, really, I remember

my dad introducing me to like the joys of eating a black plum. I just remember this being like,

you know, he like really got a lot of pleasure out of like introducing his kid things he thought were delicious.

Oh, I hate doing that. Yeah. So anyway, black plums, I remember eating with him. And it's interesting.

I was in the grocery store with June the other day, and she saw black plums. And she, she really was

curious about what color they are inside. That was a fun thing to try to describe. I mean,

aren't they sometimes kind of like like dark and rosy and sometimes more yellowish? It's almost like a

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