At the table with the dice tower.

Episode 9.

Cheese steak capital of the world. Oh, Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.

This time Julie and I recap our adventures at Pacts Unplugged.

Tom has some questions from the mailbag and we run through some roses, thorns, and hula hoops.

I'm Eric Sommer.

I'm Julia Herring.

And I'm Tom Vassal and also slightly jealous

I know

But you got to throw all the Essen stuff at me so you know I don't feel different in a sense right because Essen food is not the main focus for me there. There's good food in Germany don't get me wrong.

Okay. Pacts I wasn't actually jealous of the games I'm sure we'll talk about that in a second but I definitely was jealous of the food

actually Eric I was most jealous of the thing that you posted which was the Christmas market

the Christmas market was a blast I had never been been before, and I think Julie, you mentioned it

as something that you were aiming to visit.

This is like an offshoot that goes up.

It's in a park near City Hall in Philly.

And I didn't realize that it was so much of a German themed Christmas market.

It's like a traditional German festival.

There was an ornament, Christmas ornament manufacturer actually from Germany that had like a pop-up

store that goes there. They were serving Bratworth's and they were serving all sorts of like

Spaetzel and stuff. I was just surprised at how German focused it was. It was a grand old time.

Eric did you go in that ornament store? I didn't go in the ornament store. I was holding food at the time

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