Your Last Meal | Paula Poundstone can’t live without Ring Dings

As a young, broke comic, the “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” panelist (who has a serious sweet tooth) says she ate sugar and salt packets for dinner.

Paula Poundstone

If you ever meet Paula Poundstone, don’t make the mistake of asking her if Ring Dings and Ding Dongs are the same thing. THEY ARE NOT.      

Paula has a fierce love for her favorite little chocolate snack cakes, sold only in a handful of East Coast states.

Host Rachel Belle also 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.

And 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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About the Hosts

Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle is the host of The Nosh and the host and creator of Your Last Meal, a James Beard Award finalist for Best Podcast. She is also an editor-at-large at Cascade PBS.