If the Aussies didn’t think we were nuts before, they do now.
Mother of God! The cost of a US sandwich! – National – www.theage.com.au
This is a subscription so the article will probably only be up for a bit. So here ’tis. And I promise to cut back on my VMGC posts.
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 $US28,000 ($A35,814) on eBay.
GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, said it had made the winning bid. Company executives said they were willing to spend “as much as it took” to own the 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 on eBay show what can be viewed as a woman’s face on the sandwich. GoldenPalace.com chief executive Richard Rowe said he would use the sandwich to raise money for charity.
Mr Kerr and Steve Baker, head of GoldenPalace’s management company, Cyberworld Group, flew to Florida yesterday to make arrangements for the sandwich handover with owner Diana Duyser.
“I would like all people to know that I do believe that this is the Virgin Mary, Mother of God,” said Ms Duyser, a jewellery designer.
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. She said it never went mouldy.