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MSNBC wrote:A 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 $28,000 on eBay.
GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that 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 recognizable,? 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 Monday.
In a statement, GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe said he planned to use the sandwich to raise money for charity. 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,? Duyser, a work-from-home jewelry 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 Duyser would deliver on the bid, said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy.
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 has never sprouted a spore of mold.
From the looks of the photo it probably wouldn't take a whole lot to make that. If you had a mold you could easily make something like that. ITs not as if this is any type of miracle.
When my gf told me about this I thought she was BSing (about a week ago). Then I saw that the woman actually was able to sell it, I think eBay stopped her or something, it was on the news this morning.
I don't know who's dumber. The woman who believed the virgin mary was in her meal, or the idiot that bought it. I'd have to go with the idiot that bought it though
Those are the same folks that bid and won the one-of-a-kind George W. Bush and John Kerry Cabbage Patch dolls a month ago. I was in a bidding war with them up to $500, then I gave up....
I havent' even made that much money in my life and someone pays that much for a cheese sandwitch, that has a shape that kinda like a person, even if it does look like a person, who says it's the virgin mary, why can't it be some muslim women, or someone in a halloween costume dressed up like the virgin mary. So dumb.
