Episode 585: Meal Train Meals
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is Spilled Milk the show where we cook something delicious |
| 0:09.1 | eat it all and you can't have it except today actually we are talking about maybe foods |
| 0:15.9 | that you can have we're talking about meal train meals which you know if you're if you're |
| 0:21.3 | a friend of ours a friend of the show maybe we've delivered a meal train to you yeah maybe |
| 0:26.9 | we have yeah check check your your porch or or mailbox yeah see if we've delivered a meal train |
| 0:34.3 | to you so I was responsible for researching this episode and I did think for a minute about like |
| 0:39.5 | researching the history of meal train as like a website and then I was like nope I was wondering |
| 0:45.5 | the same thing like is this is this like a trademark term or what yeah so I don't know if the |
| 0:51.9 | meal train lawyers are going to come after us or like if they're going to come and and like |
| 0:56.5 | dump like you know meal like money train boxes of money on us for promoting their website I guess |
| 1:03.6 | money train was that like a like a page paycheck lending or like a payday lender or |
| 1:08.6 | that I think that's money tree money train was a movie with trying to remember who was in it I did |
| 1:14.8 | see it it was like a like a fun like dumb thriller movie from the 90s oh yeah wistley |
| 1:20.6 | slipes and witty herals and Jennifer Lopez so just just some like minor actors that you've |
| 1:25.2 | never heard yeah for those who maybe are outside the US or are not familiar with meal train as like |
| 1:32.2 | a website or a concept basically what we're talking about is the phenomenon where some people in |
| 1:37.7 | need or people who are going through a tough time a bunch of friends bring them food and generally |
| 1:43.9 | sign up to do this like on a certain schedule or whatnot so so that you don't like have everyone |
| 1:50.1 | converge on your house on the same night all with the same lasagna that's exactly right yeah |
| 1:54.9 | so you know like when you and I both had our first children my first child your only child |
| 2:02.2 | I don't remember there being a website for this I know I have two children now Matthew isn't |
| 2:07.5 | this weird it is it is weird and like I'm kind of jealous is that make sense well you're welcome |
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