Spilled Milk

Why do some fruits get better when you put them in a can and others turn into clammy eyeballs? We have no idea, but we keep opening cans of peaches, pears, fruit cocktail, and more, until we're up to ...

7 Feb 201317min

Any episode that includes the question “do you prefer head-on or headless?” has got to be pretty good, right? We dive into the undersea world of shrimp and surface with a briny hangover and a couple o...

24 Jan 201316min

Gather round the campfire, children, because we have ghost stories from darkest Florida that'll scare you boneless! Meanwhile, Molly's marshmallow catches fire seventeen times. That's not a euphemism....

10 Jan 201315min

A band of renegade and not-too-smart historians argues that the Civil War was fought over cornbread. Should it be sweet, cakey, and yellow? Or savory, white, and crisp-crusted? Is it true that the bes...

27 Dec 201214min

A note to fans of cakey brownies, if you even exist: you can skip this episode. Here at Spilled Milk, we fall on the fudgy side of the Great Brownie Divide, and it’s nice and soft and gooey over here....

13 Dec 201213min

We're strolling down memory lane again, and this time, we're checking out cans.  From SpaghettiOs to tiny burgers in soup, we're revisiting the canned foods of our youth, and hey, would you look at th...

29 Nov 201216min

Five out of five dentists recommend listening to this episode, because there is as of yet no known mechanism for sound waves to cause tooth decay. Unless you lie around listening to the show for days ...

15 Nov 201215min

Do you still have nightmares about stinky little green heads on your childhood dinner plate? We're here for a grownup look at Brussels sprouts, with a hearty dose of heavy cream and hot metal. (Just k...

1 Nov 201215min