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Spilled Milk

Episode 681: Frozen Kimbap

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk this show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any.

0:10.3

Today we are talking about frozen kimbab.

0:13.5

Okay, and we've never done a kimbab episode. So now we're doing a frozen kimpop episode.

0:19.0

It's because I started buying it and kind of got hooked.

0:22.1

Today was my first time having it.

0:23.8

Spoiler alert, there's like no memory lane here.

0:26.2

Yeah, me neither.

0:27.4

This is a product that started appearing like not only just on like non-Korean store shelves,

0:33.5

but I think it was not even particularly common on Korean store shelves before like 20, 23.

0:39.2

Hold on. Let's define it. Okay. So Kimbop, so Kim meaning nori or seaweed in Korean and Bob referring to rice.

0:49.8

So this is basically, it looks like what we might think of as maki in sushi territory.

0:57.0

And particularly, it's sort of the Korean interpretation of like futomaki.

1:02.2

Like, it's like a big rice roll with a bunch of stuff inside.

1:06.0

I think we will do like a more general kimbab episode in the future where we make it also.

1:10.7

But I wanted to focus on the Frozen because it was in my freezer.

1:15.9

It's a good gateway Kimbaub.

1:17.1

It's a good gateway Kimbaugh.

1:18.4

So yeah, Matthew, as usual, we are like way behind the trend.

1:23.1

This became a thing that was really popular, at least sort of skyrocketed to popularity through Trader

1:32.4

Joe's.

1:33.1

Oh, yeah.

1:33.4

We'll talk about this.

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