Alsace
About Alsace
Alsace is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,919,745. Alsatian culture is characterized by a blend of German and French influences.
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There was this family, the Weinling family, they were a family of orthodox Jews that came from Alsace in France and they had their own effectively secret proprietary method of making these balloons.
from 476: No Such Thing As Othello's Casio, 2023-04-28 at 00:35:54 · read transcript
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Let's stretch it out, dry it and put like, what was going on in that family? It's Mikey's birthday. Have we got balloons? Sorry, that's what made me laugh so much because it's amazing. It's like really amazing what they did. and discovered, but what was going on in Alsace? They were already using this stuff for gold beating, which is why it's called Gold Beater's skin, right? Yeah. What are they using it in gold?
No Such Thing As Othello's Casio, 2023-04-27 · listen
Wow. By which I mean people from Alsace. Were they all on a bus together? this is a thing where so there's ballooning took off if only the people at home could have seen the way that you've built up to that life I know the face you lifted up the plastic button and you dumped you press dump on your joke took off I thought I could do it I could go for it couldn't I they'll all laugh and we'll just move on and it won't be made a big thing off the British army they were.
No Such Thing As Othello's Casio, 2023-04-27 · listen
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