Today we're slurping memories and building tension as we sample the taste of road trips and youth. We have fun as we learn with a flavor quiz and blind taste test because we're bloody well still here! Finally, we get all angry burger as we put our dentists on blast because how dare they?!
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Molly 0:04
Hi, I'm Molly, and I'm Matthew. And this is spilled milk, the show where we cook something delicious or buy it at the convenience store. And, well, you
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:12
might be able to buy it there too. I have a feeling you can, because today we're talking about Takis, that's
Molly 0:16
right, the rolled tortilla chip product. How did we get the idea for
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:21
this episode? I mean, it's a popular snack food, so it's kind of obvious, but as
Molly 0:26
I say at the beginning of every episode, I'm amazed we haven't done this one yet. Oh, we should also say Matthew that we're recording this one remotely. I'm yeah, I'm in my house. You're in your house. And Takis seemed like a great choice for today, because we could both get them and crunch on them. We could both
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:42
get them and crunch on them. On the other hand, like the best way to eat Takis is with your friend in kind of a lady in the tramp style.
Molly 0:49
Oh yeah, yeah. Cuz you can, you can each take, like one end of the roll of
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:53
the of like 1.5 inch long chip, and inch your way closer to each other, millimeter by millimeter. That's right, that's how I usually eat. I really like to build up the tension as I'm reaching my way toward my friends. Oh yeah, the anticipation is what it's all the old talky tube, if you know what I mean, yeah, like, like, how we've been building up the tension on this show for the last 691, episodes.
Molly 1:16
So anyway, today's our talkies episode, and today, we're gonna finally reach the climax
Matthew Amster-Burton 1:25
of talkies. That's right, Ma, do you have any talkies memory lane? I
Molly 1:30
don't. I don't. In fact, I think I may have first encountered them not that long ago, and I think it might have been within the context of something related to our show, like a road trip, sure, something like that. I think of them as as like a road trip thing, absolutely,
Matthew Amster-Burton 1:47
yes. I think of them as a road trip thing and like a young person thing, a young person thing, because they're, they're in the same sort of market category as a flaming hot Cheeto. That's right,
Molly 1:59
but they're not exactly stunt food. They're also, like, you can eat them, yeah, that's
Matthew Amster-Burton 2:04
true, I mean, but you can eat flamin Hot Cheetos. I've seen it done, which is also a real road trip food, absolutely, yeah, yeah. I think I first ran across Takis in California. And I want to say it might have been on, like, a family trip to Lompoc, California, like stopping into, like a Mexican grocery and, like, seeing a new snack food, I'm gonna try this, which, which checks out based on, like, when they were first introduced to the US market, which we'll get into when we get into the the long and sordid history of talkies. Former
Molly 2:32
spouse of the show, Brandon, that's F sots. B, did I get that right? Yeah. F sots be stopped by this morning to pick up June's electric bass. Did you know June is playing the electric bass? No, that's great. Wow. By the time this episode airs, I really hope that's still a true state.
Matthew Amster-Burton 2:49
Yeah, you got a little Getty Lee on your hands? I got a little let me on your hands, a little flea. Yeah, little flea on your hands. Get that flea off your hands before it fights. Anyway,
Molly 2:59
Brandon stopped by to pick up June space. I told him that we were gonna be, I was gonna be eating some Takis today. And I was like, you know, where do you go to buy your talkies? And he was like, Oh, well, you know, any convenience store. But also you should really get and then he, like, suggested this, kind of, like, bougie, or brand that, like, does, like sustainable agriculture, or something called Zach's mighties. Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 3:22
I had not heard of this. I googled it and it, I mean, obviously it's exactly what you said. Yeah,
Molly 3:26
that's supposed to be really good. But I was like, dude, but we're doing a talkies episode.
Matthew Amster-Burton 3:31
Yeah, I have, like, the Trader Joe's ones are also good. I didn't get any today. None of these things are going to be bad because, like, it's a chip that's heavily seasoned, but I only got the original today, with sort of one semi exception, which we'll get to.
Molly 3:45
Okay, cool. So what are
Matthew Amster-Burton 3:47
these? Okay, talkies are a rolled and heavily seasoned tortilla chip that are very popular with young people. And the name, I didn't realize this until I started researching this episode, that the name refers to the fact that they're shaped like taquitos and the proc product was originally spelled T, A, Q, U, I, s, oh,
Molly 4:05
this makes total sense. Yeah. Is that great? Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 4:09
the.on the I in the in the logo has a talkie shaped swirl. And if it, if it seems like I've, like, kind of gotten off topic, like there isn't a whole lot of allure to these, I don't know, okay, and the flavors and colors tend toward the extreme side of the flavor spectrum.
Molly 4:25
I mean, even the packaging is like, yeah, chip packaging is always really bright, but this one, like, really leans hard on purple and yellow,
Matthew Amster-Burton 4:34
yeah. Like The Purple Bag is a big part of their marketing angle. Like, it's immediately recognizable, okay, okay, well, in case you wondered what the rattling is, I've got a bag, yeah, and soon they'll be wondering what the crunching is.
Molly 4:46
That's right. So when did these launch? Are these like a relatively new product in the chip universe? Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 4:53
I, I didn't realize this until I started researching. I just said that a second ago about I, like, I. A new person. Like, I've learned everything there is to know about talkies. I learned a lot about myself. I learned about flower arranging, which may or may not be an ad that's running on this episode. Wait, you're a new person. I mean, yeah, like, like, I learned so much about talkies that, like, I realized I am talkies. So like,
Molly 5:17
you're it's like, it's replaced a whole bunch of other things that used to be in your consciousness, and so you're a completely new person now,
Matthew Amster-Burton 5:24
yeah. So also, I've been playing this video game where a big part of the plot is people, like, sucking, like, thoughts and memories out of one person and inserting them into another person. So like, I've been thinking about that idea a lot lately. So I think, like, my brain is like a bunch of little rolled crispy chips. Now
Molly 5:42
I I've been thinking about this idea recently, too. Oh, really, yeah, again. F, sots. B, my ex husband was in Vancouver not too long ago, and he was talking about going to some sort of restaurant that he said he and I had been to. And I was like, I have no recollection of this. And he's like, do you remember our friend? Like, so and so went and we liked it. But you said, This is me, apparently, right? I said this, he's like, you said you preferred Din Tai Fung. And I was like, I did. This happens to me too. I was I? What I mean? Am I? Wow? Am I, like, that old that I truly don't remember entire things that other people remember about me.
Matthew Amster-Burton 6:25
I mean, do you want me to be nice and say, no, no, definitely not. Or Be honest. Be honest because I mean, much younger than me, and this happens to me all the time.
Molly 6:35
It's unnerving, like it's fine with me to forget things or to slurp a memory out of somebody else's head. But when I learned that somebody slurped a memory out of my head, that feels weird. Do you
Matthew Amster-Burton 6:48
think it was me and now I, like, secretly, am sitting on the memory of, like, going to a dint I fun competitor with your ex husband, maybe, maybe because, like, fsodh B and I once did, did have, like, a getaway to Arizona. That's right, some pizza research. God, that was like a actual lifetime ago. It was, yeah, but the pizza was good. Takis were created in 1999 by barcell foods, which was later bought by the giant food conglomerate Grupo bimbo. Okay, they were introduced to the US market in 2001 and to Canada in 2015 Whoa, so like, until then, Canadians were probably coming, like, across the border in droves to get their talkie fix
Molly 7:28
that, and Trader Joe's. Yes, yeah, the Canadians are always coming to get Trader Joe's. Do
Matthew Amster-Burton 7:33
you remember that guy who was running, like the fake Trader Joe's in Vancouver? Did you hear this story? I think it was on This American Life, ah, he called it pirate Joe's. And he would literally just drive across into Washington, buy a bunch of shit at Trader Joe's and sell them out of like, a storefront in Vancouver. That's brilliant. Took, like, several tries before Trader Joe's, like, completely shut him down.
Molly 7:58
That it's great, brilliant. Yeah, so they were introduced to the US market. Gosh, almost 25 years ago. Almost 25 years ago, Canada, about 10 years ago.
Matthew Amster-Burton 8:07
Yeah. And now there's like, a whole family of talkies branded snacks. There's like more traditional chip shaped ones. There's like nut spicy nut mixes. But today we're focusing on the original rolled chips, except for the one other format that I bought by mistake. Okay, okay, I think that we should begin eating. I think so too. So I made the mistake of, like, eating a big lunch before this. These, these things, like, I
Molly 8:32
just had a bowl of red lentil soup, and I'm feeling quite full of liquid I walked so this morning, on Monday mornings, we tape on Mondays. On Monday mornings, I take care of our son more than usual. And so this morning, I walked with Ames and Gilbert, our other son, for legged son, to the convenience store that's nearby. I was only able to get fuego flavor, which is the original. Can we talk about the flavors of these or no, we're gonna do a flavor quiz. We are gonna do
Matthew Amster-Burton 9:05
a flavor quiz. Yes. Speaking of what made me think of this, I was gonna say speaking of something funny, I heard about owls, but I don't know what made me think of it, so I'll save it for another time when you mention owls.
Molly 9:16
Okay, wait, let's talk about the TAKIS Fuego flavor.
Matthew Amster-Burton 9:21
Okay, so this was the original flavor, and it's hot chili pepper and lime flavor and so, yeah, these are, like, two inches long, and they're very red. Oh, it's
Molly 9:30
so interesting. They look so much more red on camera than they do in person. Yeah, I'd say this is over two inches long. It's a color that doesn't usually occur in
Matthew Amster-Burton 9:43
food. Oh, but we're gonna get to a color that really doesn't occur in food. But I like how you're holding it up, like a little evil mustache. But
Molly 9:50
I think that these are really kind of perfect.
Matthew Amster-Burton 9:55
Yeah, I think they're really good. The only thing for me is they you. A lot of, like, lime powder or citric acid or something. So they're quite tart. I like that. I like that. But it also, like I hit a limit on that, like, pretty quickly. It is
Molly 10:13
kind of a little bit, yeah, I am feeling kind of the residue of a lot of lemon, yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 10:20
I feel like my whole, my whole esophagus, is sort of buzzing with with lime. It does
Molly 10:24
begin to feel a little bit like sensory overload, but I honestly can't tell how much of it is the heat, which the bag describes as extreme, yep, or whether it's the citric acid, yeah? I
Matthew Amster-Burton 10:36
mean, I think it's, I think it's probably both and like, yeah, these, these are like a young person's game. You know, the old, the older I get, the less my digestive system is, like, prepared to, like, take on a whole bag of these. I still love them.
Molly 10:48
Oh, what size bag Do you have? I have a full size bag. So I have the
Matthew Amster-Burton 10:53
small bag. I have, like, the 3.25 ounce bag that I got at 711 but I have a large bag of two other flavors that I got a safe way, and the large bag has a lot of talkies. There's
Molly 11:03
a lot of talkies. And it's, it's really, they're solid, yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 11:08
we're gonna have to do some sort of, like, talkies giveaway, I bet, just like, in front of my house, like a Pirate Joe situation, not like the show giving, doing a giveaway, buy
Molly 11:20
nothing is so good for that. Like, I am endlessly tickled by the things I see listed on Buy Nothing. Like, here's a package of, like, Danish butter cookies with one type of cookie taken out of it,
Matthew Amster-Burton 11:31
which the rest. I mean, as long as you get the tin, it's worth it.
Molly 11:35
We literally saw a Buy Nothing listing for pizza, like a, you know, a delivery pizza that had been left out on somebody's counter all night. They were, like, we didn't have room for it in the fridge, left it out on the counter. But it would be great for lunch today. No,
Matthew Amster-Burton 11:50
it wouldn't. It would be bad for lunch ever. Like, that's anyway, what you saw was a murder in progress.
Molly 11:59
Well, it gave me a good laugh. I laugh. Yes, it's very funny. Okay, so, Matthew, what other flavors do you have? Oh, should we talk about how these are made? Yes,
Matthew Amster-Burton 12:10
although, wow, did I have trouble figuring out how they these are made. So I did find a YouTube video that looks like it's from 2002 but it's actually newer, but it looks like it was shot on VHS, and we'll link to it like, of, like a factory tour, like, if you want to buy your own Takis machine, or maybe, like, rent space in a Takis factory. Like, the idea is it starts with a masa dough, like a tortilla chip. And, like, if you're making triangular tortilla chips, there's like a rolling like a drum cutter that cuts out the triangular shapes. But for rolled chips, like Takis, the masses cut into strips, they go along a conveyor belt, and then there's some machine along the conveyor belt that sort of coaxes them into a rolled shape and cuts them and then rolls the next one. It's that like actual coaxing into the rolled shape that I could not figure out the specifics on if any of our listeners works in a talkies factory, or is a talkies magnate, or just has any knowledge on, like, the industrial side of these things we want to know contact at spilled milk podcast.com,
Molly 13:15
you know, I guess, I guess my main question is, how are they held together? Like, is there, like, just a little bit of so if you've got this little, cute little tortilla, this little round tortilla, and then you want to roll it, I mean, I wonder if there's like, a little masa glue in there that's holding
Matthew Amster-Burton 13:33
so, like, why don't they, like, fly apart when they go into the fryer, right? You would think they'd
Molly 13:36
go into the fryer and, like, they'd kind of flower open,
Matthew Amster-Burton 13:40
yeah, which probably someone's doing that, and it's a different brand of chip, but I don't know. I mean, I think probably they're held together with love. Yes, my guess would be that just the dough is moist enough that they, like, it's like, cohesive and like, just doesn't come apart.
Molly 13:56
I have an idea. Yeah, you know, remember our Terry's chocolate orange episode back in December. Yeah? Well, you know how the orange segments hold together with kind of a little, a little like, Rod of chocolate, yeah, I think there's like, a little rod of chocolate inside the TAKIS holding them together. It's just they're so flavorful we don't even taste it. That
Matthew Amster-Burton 14:17
could be and, like, that's probably a flavor they've done, because we're getting to the flavor quiz, another idea is maybe someone ties like a little bow around each one to hold it together, like a, like a little scroll, or like a, what am I thinking of this? Like a rolled up announcement, or something that has a little bow tied around, oh, isn't the Torah like that? Yeah, maybe, maybe it's a little, little crispy Taurus.
Molly 14:40
They're crispy Taurus,
Matthew Amster-Burton 14:44
and then, and then they get fried, and then they get hit with lots of flavor powder of various flavors.
Molly 14:48
That is exactly how Taurus are made. You.
Unknown Speaker 15:00
Maybe we should do the flavor
Matthew Amster-Burton 15:01
quiz first, in case any of the ones I bought are on the flavor quiz, although I don't think they are, Okay, I'm ready. Okay, shuffling my papers here. So
Molly 15:08
to be clear, you've written the flavor quiz, and I'm gonna guess which are real talkies and which are fake.
Matthew Amster-Burton 15:13
Yes, it's probably gonna be pretty obvious, because I had too much fun coming up with the fake ones, but I don't care. Okay, Dragon, sweet chili real, yes. Terror taco, fake, yeah, pepperoni, Pyro, real, no. Not only is that fake, but I came up with a slogan for that one. It's like pizza night, but your taste buds are in the oven. So I buy that one. Kaboom, an intriguing mix of ketchup and sriracha. Oh,
Molly 15:44
I'm gonna call that fake. It's real. Oh, wait, it's called kaboom. It's called kaboom, yeah, and it's described as an intriguing
Matthew Amster-Burton 15:51
mix. I might have added the word intriguing. Oh, fine. Nacho explosion. That's just x, p, l, o, s, i, o, n, that's real, yes, ghost guac, fake. You can tell by my face, can't you? Yeah, you're like, I was pretty happy with Ghost guac. All Okay, mole mouth, massacre, Ninja teriyaki, real. Yeah, it's real. Oh, wow. You're good at this. You should be. You should get a job at the TAKIS factory so you can do espionage and find out how they're made. And, like, obviously, like, it's not, it's not like a trade, like, a super trade secret how they're made, because Trader Joe's makes them. Doritos makes dinamitas, which are the same thing. Apparently, some, there's some hippie brand that Brandon likes, uh, triple X death sticks, that's fake, okay. Then what about sticks? Then what about this one quadruple X corpse Reviver sold as a set with Triple X death sticks
Molly 16:56
that's fake, okay, but I love that
Matthew Amster-Burton 16:59
Scorpion barbecue that's real. Don't worry, there's only 50 more of these. Churro charge that's real. It's real. Angry burger, it's real, okay? And when I say it's real, I this is, this is from Wikipedia. I did Google some them to make sure that someone wasn't messing up with
Molly 17:23
Yeah, that's what, that's what I called my dad when he was having a bad day. Okay,
Matthew Amster-Burton 17:27
yeah, angry burger is real. If you Google angry burger, Takis, it's a green bag. Okay, there's a picture of a burger on the bag, but the burger itself doesn't really look angry, which I feel is a missed opportunity.
Molly 17:41
I think so too. I think they should do better. All right, two more pineapple, pain
Matthew Amster-Burton 17:45
storm, fake and Global Thermonuclear, Cobra rattle. Thank you. I was sleep to that one too. And of course, that one is real. Oh. Oh man, I almost forgot that we did quizzes and like, what a missed opportunity that would have been. Oh
Molly 18:09
man. That was a good one. That was a really good one. Thank you. You just got
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:13
Fuego, right? I only got three other flavors, so I'm just gonna make you watch me taste. Okay, okay, I want to see the colors. Okay, so next up I've got buck and ranch, okay. Oh, and this one is labeled non spicy. And Watson said this was the first time she's ever seen the phrase non spicy on a snack food.
Molly 18:34
Yeah, right. Usually, usually snack foods are doing everything they can to tell you they're spicy, right?
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:39
So I already cracked into these yesterday. Real tasty, really.
Molly 18:43
How would you compare it to a Cool Ranch Dorito? Different texture
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:48
overall, I would say, like the rant, the balance of the ranch is not as good as a Cool Ranch Dorito, but it's pretty good. And just something about like a bunch of ranch powder works really well with the TAKIS chip format for me. Okay,
Molly 19:00
it's intriguing to me that whatever it is that Doritos is doing with cool ranch that nobody can quite mimic the No, I mean, I guess it really is rocket science.
Matthew Amster-Burton 19:14
It really is rocket science. Like they have to send every batch to space. They do. It's like, it's like, how they make Madeira by putting wine on a boat. I believe the original story of Madeira is like, some wine went out on a boat, like, not all by itself, but like, with people and and it got kind of cooked in the in the belly of the boat, which is a technical sailing term. And then when they came back, they were like, I don't know if this is going to be good. And then they taste it. And tasted it was like, Oh, this is
Molly 19:43
good. And so it's another one of those, like, accidental origin stories, yeah, we
Matthew Amster-Burton 19:47
accidentally put wine on this boat. Oops. Now, now it's a booze cruise. Okay. Next I have blue heat, which I'm a little concerned about,
Molly 19:55
ooh, supposed to be like, like, as hot as, like, the blue of a flame. I
Matthew Amster-Burton 20:00
believe that is literally the slogan they used for it. I don't see it on the bag, but what does it say about the spiciness? Oh, it says extreme, same as Fuego. But yeah, the color, when I was looking at the website, says something like, they say blue flame burns the hottest. Try it for yourself. Oh, it looks green from where I am. Yeah, it is greenish blue. Like the color is troubling because it looks like mold.
Molly 20:26
How would you describe the flavor compared to Fuego? So
Matthew Amster-Burton 20:29
I feel like it's hard to judge these, because I can see the color, like, if you handed me one of these, like blindfolded, I think I'd be, oh, yeah, that's tasty. My brain wants to tell me it has some sort of like weird blue flavor to it, but I think it's just sort of like chili powder flavored, lots of citric acid.
Molly 20:46
Interesting. Can you do your own blind tasting? Here's what I want you to do. Okay, you're gonna get one fuego out of the bag. You're gonna get one blue heat, and you're gonna put them like, on the countertop, okay? And you're gonna mix them up. Okay, okay, then you're gonna close you're gonna close your eyes, you're gonna pick them up, and I'm gonna be able to see which one is in each hand. But you're
Matthew Amster-Burton 21:12
interesting, okay, you like toss them around a little bit until I forget which is what's up. Okay, okay, I don't know which one is in each hand. Okay. Taste one. Tell me which one to taste. Taste your left hand first. Okay, just tastes like skin. God, that was
Molly 21:27
such a dad move. Okay, so that was number one. Yeah. Do you have water you could take a sip of? Yeah? Oh, god, did you look at the
Matthew Amster-Burton 21:37
I think I already know the first one was Fuego. It tasted fuego like,
Molly 21:41
okay, taste the second one,
Matthew Amster-Burton 21:44
hmm, yeah, they're both, they're both good, and they're not that different, okay, the
Molly 21:48
first one was blue heat. Oh, interesting. Or blue flame, Blue Ivy, whatever. The first one was Blue Ivy, yes, yeah, the first one was Blue Ivy. I loved. When you said you thought that it was Fuego, I was like, Yeah, you did it. Yeah. Experiment worked. Huh, interesting, more. Oh, really. Okay. And this one you mentioned maybe is like a different format. I
Matthew Amster-Burton 22:09
bought this by accident. It's taki sticks. Okay, that's what made me think of triple FX death sticks, which could be what these are. So acots, D adult child of the show, December, like, hypothesized that these might be the same as regular Takis, but solid somehow. But they're not. They're way skinnier.
Molly 22:29
Oh, so is it, like, the the pretzel rod compared to, like, uh, old fashioned pretzels?
Matthew Amster-Burton 22:36
Yeah. And I don't like these at all. Oh, I don't, I don't hate them, but like they, the texture is worse and the flavor is doesn't hit as hard. I'm not, not really buying these, possibly because I'm tasting them after the other ones. But,
Molly 22:51
yeah, wow. What a losing proposition. Takis, nope. Okay, wow. Now I have to
Matthew Amster-Burton 22:59
eat another blue heat just to end on a high note. Okay, all
Molly 23:03
right. Well, Matthew, I don't have anything else to say about Takis, but that was
Matthew Amster-Burton 23:07
fun of the flavors on the flavor quiz, which one would you be most excited to try? Oh, should we go through all of them again?
Molly 23:16
I think I want to try angry burger. I'm interested in what they do with, like, a char, char, broiled beef flavor,
Matthew Amster-Burton 23:23
yeah, I think I want, okay, first of all, I keep saying, I keep being about to say the one I want is one that I made up. I think I want to try churro charge, which is their first sweet flavor, yeah, yeah. I bet that's pretty good. That reminds me of, like a turtle chips, kind of vibe, like how turtle chips does? Sweet and savory? Yeah, they have a chocolate churro flavor, which is quite tasty. Oh, okay, okay, Turtle chips does, wow,
Molly 23:48
that was, I feel like, even though there wasn't a lot of learning, there was a lot of learning,
Matthew Amster-Burton 23:53
exactly a little bit I like a food that's just pure fun, and Takis are just pure fun. So
Molly 23:58
what are you gonna do with the rest of your talkies? I
Matthew Amster-Burton 24:01
guess I'm gonna mix them all together and stir in some some melted craft caramels and, like, lay them out onto a big baking sheet and just see what happens.
Molly 24:14
So you have a laundry room there in your apartment complex. What happens if you put, like, opened bags of Takis in there, or is that feel
Matthew Amster-Burton 24:23
weird about it? People do sometimes put food out, but I don't think I've ever seen open food, okay, like, except for that, like, you know, 36 hour old pizza. Of course,
Molly 24:33
that's true. Well, Matthew, hey, I've got good news. We've got some spilled mail.
Matthew Amster-Burton 24:37
All right, let's hear it.
Molly 24:42
You in this one, we get put slightly on blast. Okay, okay, like flavor blasted, uh, flavor blast. Don French. We get blasted with Don French. Wow, that's what I want. Speaking of Terry member, Don French, Okay, today's spilled mail. Comes from listener Claire. She says, Hi, Molly and Matthew, I imagine I'm joining all your British listeners in shouting about you,
Matthew Amster-Burton 25:09
oh boy, shouting about us. I mean
Molly 25:12
shouting at you about your dawn. French ignorance. She is a national treasure, one of the funniest comics from UK TV, and had a long running comedy partnership with Jennifer Saunders, who you may know from absolutely fabulous. So, yes, she is bloody well still alive. And look up French and Saunders on YouTube for some absolutely classic comedy, by the way, thanks to the episode, I actually looked at the chocolate orange options in the supermarket as I thought there was only milk chocolate, and I got a mint one for me, dark chocolate for my husband, and exploding candy ones for my son. You have expanded my Terry's chocolate orange knowledge incredible, although shocked to hear their Made in France. Is nothing sacred.
Matthew Amster-Burton 25:56
Nothing is sacred. I did look up French and Saunders on YouTube. They were mostly just some short clips and like I might have to subscribe to Brit box in order to get my recommended daily allowance of Dawn French. Wasn't it great when listener Claire said that she was bloody while still alive? Don't you love it when English people say bloody?
Molly 26:14
I do. I know it's weird. It's like, it's like, when you hear, I don't know, like a bird call that you know exists, but you've never heard it. Then when you hear like a British English speaker, they
Matthew Amster-Burton 26:26
make me feel the same way as when I see a bird actually pulling a worm out of the ground. I'm like, Yes, this is exactly what's supposed to happen. What
Molly 26:33
is it that you What do you think is the equivalent in American English for Brits? Like, Oh, what are they excited to hear us say that they think we're that they know we're supposed to say.
Matthew Amster-Burton 26:46
That's a really good question. Okay? British listeners write in, please contact at spilled milk podcast.com and tell us what is like a very, very stereotypical thing for an American to say,
Molly 26:56
yeah, in the same way that in British English, you would say someone is bloody well still alive,
Matthew Amster-Burton 27:00
yeah, not not in terms of content, but in terms of like, expressions used.
Molly 27:05
That's right, okay, Matthew, you've got a now, but wow, this week I do.
Matthew Amster-Burton 27:17
Watson. I are almost done with Abbott Elementary, season four. I've probably picked Abbott Elementary in the past, but it is. It was created by by comedian keen to Brunson. It is one of the funniest shows on TV period. Just like, keeps getting better. And like, it just seems like everybody on that show is having a good time. And if it comes out that, like, that's not true, I don't want to hear about it. And the thing I've said about the show in the past, that continues to be true, is that this show uses kid actors better than any other show I've ever seen, because the best that you can do is with a cute kid actor is they're probably not good at acting because they're a kid and don't have enough experience. So you get them to say one line and make a funny face. Gold every time.
Molly 28:02
Perfect, perfect. All right, so that's Abbott elementary season four.
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:08
Yeah, it's on it's on Hulu. It's probably on other things.
Molly 28:10
Okay, our producer is Abby circatella Molly's got a newsletter
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:14
that you should check out. It@mollywisenberg.substack.com's it's called, I've got a feeling, and I've got a feeling you're gonna like it as much as I do. Oh,
Molly 28:23
man, you know, I will have been doing it for three years. Actually, I just passed my three year mark.
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:30
Wow, did you get like, one of those plaques? No, I mean, I do have plaques. Oh, yeah, no, believe me, as your dentist, like, sometimes my dentist, apparently, just, kind of randomly, just just to be mean, like, pulls out the disclosing solution. Do you ever get the disclosing solution? This is a thing I remember from as a kid.
Molly 28:50
Does it, like, light up all your all your it lights up all your plaque?
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:53
Yeah, so they, so they, like, painted on, and then, and then, like, it turns it, like, blue or red or something. And then you then, like, pulls out the mirror and like, you know, there's all the plaque you're missing. And I'm like, I'm too busy to get all this
Molly 29:06
plaque. Yeah, no, every, everybody's missing a lot of plaque. I know what. You know what my dentist did that was annoying. Actually, my dentist, let's put our dentist
Matthew Amster-Burton 29:13
on blast. Let's do my dentist is great. But also, like, he, he's always bugging me to take better care of my teeth. What an asshole. God,
Molly 29:21
I think my dentist must be like preparing to retire, because she's brought on a couple of new dentists. Yeah, so I think she's like sneaking out the back door. Anyway, I had one of the new ones at my my most recent cleaning, and she was very nice, but she she said something, she's like, did you know that chocolate is one of the better choices you can make if you if you're someone who likes eating candy, yes. And I was like, Yes, I did know that. And she was like, now, on the other hand, all those things like nerds and nerds gummy clusters, now you shouldn't eat those. I was like, so deeply annoyed by this. I was, did
Matthew Amster-Burton 29:58
she mention nerds gummy. Clusters by nation nerds, gummy
Molly 30:01
clusters by name. Anyway, I was like, number one, lady, I've been alive for a while. I think I understand what candy is bad for my teeth. Number two, do you really think that at this age I'm gonna give up eating those candies? No, I'm not. I do ask.
Matthew Amster-Burton 30:20
What I would have done is, like, leaned into asking about, like, very specific candies. Like, what about the big, big, squishy nerds? Is that what they're called? Oh,
Molly 30:30
the giant, big chewy nerds, giant, big chewy nerds, yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 30:34
is that what they're called? They're called anyway. They're not very good. But I want to know, I want to, like, grill the dentist. Like, what about Nerds Rope, which we, I think we determined, had slightly larger nerd chunks than than nerds gummy clusters.
Molly 30:46
I also just don't know what brought this on, because she actually was quite pleased with my teeth. I think that she just is super anti candy. And I was like, You know
Matthew Amster-Burton 30:55
what? Listens to the show. Because otherwise, why would she have brought up nerds gummy clusters? Oh, God,
Molly 31:00
actually, you're right. Maybe she's on to me, and she just was trying to find some casual way to let me know. Yeah, there's probably that. Yeah, okay, you can chat with other spilled milk listeners about your dentistry experiences at everything spilled milk.reddit.com.
Matthew Amster-Burton 31:16
And until next time, thank you for listening spilled milk, the show that keep that's keeping it tight, rolled up tight and fried and fried. I'm Matthew Amster Burton,
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Molly 31:42
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