Cultural References
Gridirons are essential to Chapter 28 of David Copperfield when David, the Micawbers and Traddles improvise a meal on one. Dickens mentions them again as a suitable and practical gift for a blacksmith to make for someone in Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations where he refers to their use for cooking small fish known as "sprats".
The American football field resembles a gridiron, which brought up the term "gridiron football".
In Christian iconography the gridiron is an attribute of Saint Lawrence of Rome.
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