# Is anything made out of actual cellophane anymore?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anything-made-out-of-actual-cellophane-anymore/1013848 "2025-02-04T01:15:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anything-made-out-of-actual-cellophane-anymore/1013848/21 "2025-02-04T18:45:52Z")

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One of my favorite stories is about a Russian family that fled before WWII to avoid religious persecution. They lived completely out of touch in the forest until being discovered 40 years later. They were visited occasionally after that but they wanted to remain. Some of the things that fascinated them were:

Satellites. They could easily see them in the dark skies but just figured, “man has discovered some new thing.”

Television. They viewed it at the camp of the explorers. They absolutely loved it.

Cellophane fascinated them. “Look, it is like glass yet it crumbles!”

> **[This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years,...](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-russian-family-lived-alone-in-the-siberian-wilderness-for-40-years-unaware-of-world-war-ii-or-the-moon-landing-7354256/)**
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> In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936

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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anything-made-out-of-actual-cellophane-anymore/1013848/22 "2025-02-04T18:49:03Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I know there’s a way to use the fluff from insides of paracord for fire starter. I’ve never seen it done. Looks plausible.

I posted about this paracord a few years ago. It has fire starter, fishing line, stainless steel snare wire and more.

> **[SurvivorCord | BLACK STEEL](https://www.titansurvival.com/products/black-steel-survivorcord)**
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> TITAN's patented Black Steel SurvivorCord (also known as survival cord) adds 3 essential survival strands to our high-performance Mil-Spec 550 paracord.

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