Episode 734: Rice Krispie Treats

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 26 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.
0:10.9	Today we are talking about Rice Krispies treats, which are also called Rice Krispy Treats,
0:17.3	marshmallow treats, marshmallow squares, Rice Krispies squares, and in Australia, LCM bars.
0:26.5	LCM bars, is that you said?
0:28.2	Yeah, so I spent some time looking this up.
0:30.5	So, LCM apparently does not stand for anything, but Kellogg's chose the name because they liked
0:37.3	how the letters sounded
0:38.3	together.
0:39.1	And they wanted like a different name for the Australian market.
0:43.0	Like what?
0:43.7	But it probably, you can stand probably lovely, lovely, crusty morsel.
0:48.9	Okay.
0:49.3	Some people have speculated that it stands for little crunchy munchies.
0:52.4	Okay.
0:52.9	Or light, crispy morsels.
1:11.1	Okay, I was really close. But Kellogg says nope. Okay, I mean, I was really close to the thing that Kellogg's denies. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, these, I think that I might have suggested this episode sometime. Mm-hmm. I think it says, it said that you suggested on the powdered sugar episode. I don't know why.
1:12.0	Me neither. They have no powdered sugar.
1:14.1	Yeah, no. I think it says that you suggested on the powdered sugar episode. I don't know why.
1:11.4	Me neither.
1:12.8	They have no powdered sugar.
1:14.4	Yeah, no, not at all.
1:16.0	Matthew, what's on your memory lane for these bad boys?
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