It may not be the world's largest frying pan (you've won this round, Rose Hill, North Carolina), but I'm sure Brandon (an hour north of Iowa City on I-380) is still proud of being the home to Iowa's largest frying pan.
A number of individuals have asked if I had been to Brandon to see the frying pan and when I was going to write about it (yes, people actually do read my blog posts, nobody is more surprised than me). Evidentially, the frying pan is very popular and why would it not be, its the simple transitive theory: people love breakfast, a lot of breakfast items are cooked on a frying pan, thus people love frying pans. I am no mathematician, but that just adds up.
According to its Wikipedia page (and we all know that Wikipedia is always 100% accurate), the frying pan was created in 2004 by volunteers in Brandon to promote their cowboy breakfast which uses frying pans over open flames.
The pan is 14 feet 3 inches in total length and from rim to rim 9 feet 3 inches. It also weighs 1,200 pounds, so you know that it probably hasn't been used all that often. If it was used though, it would definitely feed a small army and probably most of Brandon's 311 residents, check these numbers out:
- The frying pan is supposed to hold 88 times more than a regular 10 inch frying pan
- The pan would hold 528 (or 44 dozen) eggs
- 352 pork chops
- 88 pounds of bacon
- 440 hamburgers
And people wonder why this country is so obese.
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