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Spilled Milk

Episode 84: Canned Fruit

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Molly and I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

0:10.9

delicious eat it all and you can't have any.

0:13.5

And today we are talking about canned fruit.

0:17.0

Yes.

0:18.0

Don't sound too excited.

0:21.0

You know, I'm actually, I'm a little bit excited about this episode because as a kid I desperately

0:27.2

wanted fruit cocktail the kind in like heavy syrup which we've got today and I was really never allowed to have it.

0:34.7

I think a couple of times I was allowed to have the kind of light syrup but by then it

0:37.7

already lost its allure for me.

0:39.7

Honestly I don't have a lot of childhood memories of canned fruit. I do remember getting the

0:44.3

fruit cocktail from time to time and I don't remember either loving or hating it. I am suddenly

0:49.6

reminded how much I loved dull canned pineapple juice when I was a kid.

0:55.0

Gosh, nothing like that flavor.

0:58.0

It is so good. My school cafeteria would sell it in these tiny little cans with the peel off foil.

1:03.2

I totally remember.

1:04.3

Oh yes.

1:05.3

Oh, wow.

1:06.3

Why didn't we do that instead?

1:07.3

Well, and do you remember, do they still make the kind of can that you need to open with, what

1:10.6

is it, a church key or something the bigger cans?

1:13.0

Yeah I think well they've added these peel off tops to pretty much all the

1:18.4

canned fruit which is a little unnerving because it sort of implies that

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