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Spilled Milk

Episode 677: Punch Like at School Dances

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show we cook something delicious eat it all and you cannot have any although today I mean well we could have made a gallon of punch and shared it with you but we didn't that's right yeah your your invitation was lost in the mail because today we're talking about punch like at school

0:21.0

dances.

0:22.2

I knew I wouldn't be able to get through that without laughing.

0:24.4

This episode was suggested by listener Jeff who phrased it that way.

0:28.8

Punch like at school dances.

0:30.9

And when Matthew suggested this episode to me by text, it was really hard to tell whether punch was a noun or a verb.

0:39.7

Yeah, it's like dance, dance like nobody's watching. Punch like at school dances.

0:43.8

That's right. So yeah, anyway, we're talking about non-alcoholic punches today. Yeah.

0:48.8

And I also want to say right off the bat that doing the research for this episode made me realize that we should do like an alcoholic punch episode.

0:56.3

It was really tasty.

0:57.1

It's really tasty.

0:59.0

Matthew, what's on your punch like at school dances memory lane?

1:02.8

So this particular kind of punch that has Orange Sherbert dissolved into it, I really think

1:08.1

as more of like a elementary school thing rather than a school

1:12.5

dance thing. Like your parents drag you to a party at someone's house and like there are other

1:16.9

kids there that you have to play with. But on the upside, there's a punch. There's a bowl of punch

1:21.4

and it's like the kind of punch you would only get at a punch party. I think of it as a

1:26.4

wedding thing, like weddings of the 80s, maybe, weddings of the early 90s.

1:31.5

And I also, I don't remember ever encountering this at a school dance.

1:37.1

I think it's also kind of a bridal shower thing.

1:40.0

Oh, that makes sense.

1:41.7

Or like a baby shower kind of thing.

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