Episode 56: Hard Candy
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2012
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, gosh, I'm really excited about this episode. |
| 0:03.4 | Compared to our usual episodes where I'm like, I can't believe I have to go eat this stuff. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something |
| 0:18.0 | delicious eat it all and you people cannot have any and today we're talking about individually wrapped |
| 0:24.9 | candies. What are we calling this exactly? Well we've thrown around some ideas. I |
| 0:29.2 | think of it as like old lady candy. Yes. Because it's it's what your grandmother or maybe your piano |
| 0:35.2 | teacher would have kept in a bowl just inside the front door. |
| 0:38.6 | My dry cleaner has a bowl of these candies. |
| 0:41.5 | You know, I think my bank used to to and maybe still does. Back when there were |
| 0:44.8 | still banks. Yes back when they were still banks. Those great days. Yeah good times. |
| 0:49.5 | Anyway I guess you could also think of it as bulk candy in that it's usually sold in sort of big bags, |
| 0:55.6 | often sold like on one particular aisle of the grocery store, bins. |
| 1:00.7 | Now I think of it as being associated with an end cap at the end of an aisle of the |
| 1:04.8 | grocery store and it would be the Brock's bulk candy display, |
| 1:08.3 | BRACs, BRACH, and when I was a kid this would be the thing at the grocery store where I would tug at my |
| 1:15.7 | mother's arm and say, please, oh please, oh please, can we get some? |
| 1:19.7 | When I was a kid, I can't, I don't know if we can be arrested in retrospect for this but my mom |
| 1:27.4 | really liked the milk-made caramels which we're gonna be we're gonna be |
| 1:31.8 | tasting here in a second the brocks milk-made caramels which we're going to be we're going to be tasting here in a second. |
| 1:33.0 | The Brocks milk made caramels and she would go open up the bin and take a couple out and |
| 1:38.9 | like just steal them. You just rat it out your own mother. she and I would eat them in the grocery store. |
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