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Spilled Milk

Episode 77: Brussels Sprouts

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

One of my favorite fall foods really we're talking about brussels sprouts.

0:03.3

Oh good thanks for cluing me in on the topic. Yeah. I was wondering why we were surrounded by

0:07.3

these mountains and mountains of brussels sprouts. Yep, yep. I cannot believe it's taken us this long to getting around to doing a Brussels

0:14.4

Sprouse show. I know. I mean when we discussed it you know when we decided on the

0:18.2

topic I actually thought we'd already done it. Yeah we've gotten to the point I

0:21.8

think where we're like we'll say we should do like cabbage and then we're like did we do that already? I can't remember.

0:29.0

It's too bad there isn't any way to get a list of topics that we've already covered.

0:33.2

It's too bad that our shows aren't more memorable to us.

0:35.6

Yeah.

0:36.4

Yeah.

0:37.4

Who, what was your name again?

0:39.1

So, so anyway, Brussels Sprouts, I feel like this is, I feel like most of our listeners probably like

0:45.5

Brussels sprouts, but all at all it's kind of a controversial.

0:48.6

Yeah, I don't know, do they? I mean, it's like it's a punchline. And I don't really know how it got to be a punchline

0:55.1

since compared to other things that kids have to face up against you know on their

1:00.6

plates at the dinner table it seems like brussels sprouts are not one of the most challenging.

1:05.7

But I feel like I don't know maybe it's sort of our parents generation but I feel like so many people were raised on boiled brussels sprouts. I mean boiled to the

1:14.0

point where they become slimy, really sulfurous, all the things that I do not

1:20.0

think of brussels sprouts as being. And the smell, like if you lived in a cartoon,

1:25.2

there would be like the smell fingers like creeping

1:27.4

around your door frame and like, mom, again. So, did you like Brussels Sprouts as a kid?

1:36.0

You know, I don't really remember eating Brussels sprouts as a kid,

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