Out of your pan!
Everybody in need of a new frying pan, was lucky in the beginning of September, in one of Holland’s most famous department stores. In thirteen college towns, at exact five o’clock in the afternoon, the first one hundred students could exchange their old frying pan for a free new one.
'A bit disappointing'
In Arnhem a few students stand in a line at a quarter to five, taking their old pans out of plastic bags. David and Vincent, two Car Engineering students at the HAN, first thought the pan-campaign was a joke. ‘But it is useful, though’, Vincent says. His old frying pan is very huge. ‘Do you get such a tiny one in exchange? I wouldn’t accept that if I were you’, friend David jokes as he sees the new pan. ‘A bit disappointing’.
To bake eggs against the hangover
Two students of the Teacher Training College walk away happily with their new gain. ‘Now we can bake some eggs again, against the hangover,’ yells one of them, waving around with her new pan. Who thinks it is a lot of pushing and pulling in order to get a pan, is wrong. After a quarter of an hour the commotion is over and there are many pans left.
They were close
In Groningen this was a different kettle of fish: students were standing in a line one hour in advance, and after ten minutes the whole stock of pans was gone. Students, who missed out, received a discount on a frying pan and a free cup of coffee as comfort.
