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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
'Virgin Mary' toast fetches $28,000
A decade-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear an image of the Virgin Mary has sold on the eBay auction website for $28,000. An internet casino confirmed it had purchased the sandwich, saying it had become a "part of pop culture".Goldenpalace.com says it will take the sandwich on world tour before selling it and donating the money to charity. Diane Duyser, from Florida, says the sandwich has never gone mouldy since she made it 10 years ago.By the time the sandwich auction closed on Monday the sale had received over 1.7 million hits.
A decade-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear an image of the Virgin Mary has sold on the eBay auction website for $28,000. An internet casino confirmed it had purchased the sandwich, saying it had become a "part of pop culture".Goldenpalace.com says it will take the sandwich on world tour before selling it and donating the money to charity. Diane Duyser, from Florida, says the sandwich has never gone mouldy since she made it 10 years ago.By the time the sandwich auction closed on Monday the sale had received over 1.7 million hits.
When I first saw this on E-bay I thought it was a joke, or a brave attempt to extract money from a gullible public (ironic then that a casino has bought it- no?). But it appears to be genuine. When I say genuine I do not, of course, mean that I believe this is a miraculous image of the Virgin on toast. The main reason for my doubt is that Jesus's mother was sort of middle eastern whereas this is clearly an image of 60's fashion icon TWIGGY!
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