Paula Poundstone: Ring Dings
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Veteran comedian Paula Poundstone loves Ring Dings, her favorite little chocolate snack cakes only sold in a handful of East Coast states. She once told a very skeptical Michael Pollan, on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, that they are her reason for living.
So host Rachel Belle interviews the pastry chef/owner of The Ring Ding Bar in New York City, a bakery that’s recreated the confection with “real ingredients” in 25 flavors.
Paula talks about how she lived on a Greyhound bus in the 80s, when she didn’t have enough money for motels, why you should read the recipe on the marshmallow fluff jar very carefully, and why Dick Van Dyke will most likely never have dinner at Paula’s house again.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:23.3 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, |
| 0:26.3 | and we dig into history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:31.8 | Today on the program, comedian Paula Poundstone. |
| 0:36.0 | Paula started performing stand-up in the 1980s. |
| 0:38.9 | When I was very, very broke, I ate sugar and salt. |
| 0:44.7 | Packets? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, I just eat salt. |
| 0:48.2 | For dinner. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, and then I would eat sugar. |
| 0:51.8 | Paula hosts a weekly comedy podcast called Nobody Lists to Paula Poundstone. |
| 0:56.7 | She's a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and she was the voice of Forgetter |
| 1:01.8 | Paula in the film's Inside Out and Inside Out too. Paula is taking off on her latest countrywide |
| 1:07.9 | comedy tour tomorrow. Hopefully, Paula is no longer eating sugar and salt packets for her meals. |
| 1:14.3 | But if you think that fame and fortune turned Paula into a fancy gourmand, you would be |
| 1:19.0 | wrong. |
| 1:19.9 | Paula thinks ringdings are the perfect food. |
| 1:22.4 | So I'll chat with the owner of the ringding bar in New York City. |
| 1:27.1 | That's coming up later in the show. |
| 1:29.3 | But right now, let's drop into my conversation with Paula Poundstone. |
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