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Spilled Milk

Episode 717: Saltines

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Comedy, Food

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 32 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, eat it all, and you can't have any.

0:10.7

Today we are talking about salty.

0:14.0

Yes, now it can be told. People have been clamoring for this since 1982.

0:23.0

Oh, longer than that. People have been clamoring for this since 1982. Mm, longer than that. Yeah.

0:24.0

People have been clamoring for this since 1882.

0:26.0

Something like that.

0:27.0

Something like that.

0:28.0

And now finally, things are about to get premium.

0:31.6

That's right.

0:32.2

Matthew, what's on your sultein memory lane?

0:34.2

Oh, that's a great question.

0:35.4

And did you grow up calling them saltines?

0:37.4

Yes, absolutely grew up calling them saltines. That's a really good question. So my main memory of saltines is of the little two packs that you would get in restaurants often serve with a cup of soup. But sometimes, so this is my main saltine memory lane is like when you would go to a place like a diner or something that would just have the little packs of saltines like in a little sort of terrain.

1:02.2

Are there many places left that are of this kind of establishment?

1:06.5

I don't think so, but I don't know.

1:08.8

And so like if you were a kid and you're just like unlimited

1:11.0

free crackers, yes, please. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we would, we would like keep eating saltines

1:16.6

until we were told to stop. Nowadays, I think the last time I saw one of those little little tiny

1:22.2

packets with the two saltines and it was in a hospital. Now it's like a go for a hospital fair.

1:28.4

I remember. Yeah, it makes sense. I remember.

1:33.0

Yeah, it's not worth going into the hospital just to get those little saltine packs. Don't bother.

1:33.2

You can get them at the store.

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