“We Choose Truth Over Facts”
Let me introduce you to some actual facts:
This egg is the largest man-made egg in the known world…31 ft long and three and a half story high, weighing in at a whopping 2.5 tons (5,512 lb)
in Mentone, Indiana, is made of concrete, weighs 3,000 pounds, and is about 10 feet high. It was originally constructed to advertise the local egg festival and is inscribed with “The Egg Basket of the Midwest” and a basket of eggs within an outline shape of Indiana. It sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Concrete Egg Sculpture1.
located south of Tacoma, is twelve feet long and weighs 1,200 pounds. It sits on a pedestal on a ten-foot steel pole in the wide, grassy median running through the center of town. On the pedestal is written, “World’s Largest EGG.”
promotional pride in the egg day parade, and a 1989 Ripley’s Believe It or Not designation, even though larger egg sculptures exist elsewhere.
If you like parades, well this is all they offer each year here.
It serves as a nostalgic symbol honoring Winlock’s past as a major player in egg production, which is valued more by locals than merely the egg’s physical dimensions.
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