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Spilled Milk

Episode 585: Meal Train Meals

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K 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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