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Spilled Milk

Episode 56: Hard Candy

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K 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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