11-23-2004, 10:14 AM
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Brooding.
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Virgin Mary In Grilled Cheese
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A Florida woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $35,814.79 on eBay.
GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend "as much as it took" to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.
"It's a part of pop culture that's immediately and widely recognisable," spokesman Monty Kerr told The Miami Herald.
"We knew right away we wanted to have it."
Photos posted on eBay show what can be viewed as a woman's face emblazoned on the sandwich, a bite taken out of one end. Bidding closed on Monday.
In a statement, GoldenPalace CEO Richard Rowe said he planned to use the sandwich to raise money for charity.
Mr Kerr and Steve Baker, CEO of GoldenPalace's management company, Cyberworld Group, flew to south Florida on Monday to make arrangements for a sandwich handover from its owner, Diana Duyser.
"I would like all people to know that I do believe that this is the Virgin Mary, Mother of God," Ms Duyser, a work-from-home jewellery designer, said in the casino's statement.
The online auction site initially pulled the sale, saying it didn't post joke items.
The page was restored after the company was convinced that Ms Duyser would deliver on the bid, said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy.
Ms Duyser said she took a bite after making the sandwich 10 years ago and saw a face staring back at her. She put the sandwich in a clear plastic box with cotton balls and kept it on her night stand. She said the sandwich had never sprouted a spore of mold
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Link.
Here's the actual Ebay auction.
Is it just me or does it not really look like the Virgin Mary? Doesn't it look a little more like:
Gwen Stefani?
I guess it would be hard to get $28,000.00 for a ten year old Gwen Stefani Grilled Cheese sandwich. *shrug*
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