Episode 746: Pickled Ginger

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 27 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 it. Today we are talking about pickled ginger. And this was suggested by host Matthew. That's me. That's weird. I bet this happened during the skamono episode when we were like there's some like whole
0:23.1	types of skimono that we're not going to talk about on that episode. Skamono being Japanese pickles.
0:27.5	Japanese pickles. And so here here's a type of Japanese pickle that we're giving its own episode.
0:32.4	Oh, yay. You know, I think that when I first became aware that Ginger was something that got pickled. Is this Memory Lane? Oh, this is Memory Lane. Yeah. Yeah, here we are. Look around you. Maybe someday we'll have a theme song for Memory Lane. I think we tried to make one once and didn't come up with anything. I feel like it would be the sound of, you know, those like chimes that you can run your hand across.
0:55.7	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
0:56.8	What are those called?
0:59.2	Hand, hand chimes.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:02.6	You know, something like that.
1:04.1	Maybe Producer Abby could find a like a jingly chime sound.
1:07.7	Okay, like something that makes it sound a little magical.
1:10.5	Yeah, because it is. Okay. Like something that makes it sound a little magical. Yeah, because it is.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:14.8	Well, so here we are.
1:16.0	Look around, everybody.
1:17.1	We are at Tokyo sushi in Oklahoma City.
1:20.1	Wow.
1:20.6	How did you do that?
1:22.2	It's the magic of memory lane.
1:23.8	So this was my childhood sushi bar.
1:26.2	Okay.
1:26.5	As everyone has one.
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