Them there pans

When I was a young boy in the 1950s, I remember a traveling salesman coming by my grandfather’s house selling pots and pans. He explained to my Grandpa that he could cook an egg without using butter in his new “Teflon” pan, and it wouldn’t even stick to the pan. You could hear my Grandpa laughing all through the house, and he said, “Mister, if you can fry an egg in that there pan without it sticking, I will buy a whole set of them pots!”

Needless to say, the salesman fried the egg in the pan and it slid right out, much to my Grandpa’s amazement. He took a deep breath, spit out his chaw of tobacco and started pulling the money out of his billfold. True to his word, he bought a complete set of those Teflon pots and pans, and Grandma used them for years to come.

Roger Tench, Stanley, EnergyUnited

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