Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Back Up on EBay

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Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Back Up on EBay

URL: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e_sandwich_ebay

MIAMI - The Internet auction house eBay Inc. reversed itself Tuesday and is allowing bids for half of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich that its owner says bears the image of the Virgin Mary.

Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale last week, drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night. The page was viewed almost 100,000 times before being taken down.

An e-mail Duyser received from eBay said the sandwich broke its policy, which "does not allow listings that are intended as jokes."

But Duyser, a work-from-home jewelry designer who has bought and sold items on eBay for two years, said the grilled cheese wasn't a joke.

The auction was back on Tuesday afternoon with a top bid of $5,100. The winning bidder also has to pay $9.95 for shipping. In mocking response, two similar items were later posted — grilled cheese sandwiches bearing the images of the Virgin Mary's used gum and Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.

A phone message left with San Jose, Calif.-based eBay was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Duyser thought eBay would be the best place to show off the sandwich, made on plain white bread and American cheese and cooked with no oil or butter. She said she took a bite after making it 10 years ago and saw a face staring back at her from the bread.

Duyser, 52, put the sandwich in a clear plastic box with cotton balls and kept it on her night stand.

At first, she was scared by the image, "but now that I realize how unique it is, I wanted to share it with the world," Duyser told The Miami Herald.

She said the sandwich has never sprouted a spore of mold.
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Virgin Mary sandwich auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&ssPageNameWDVW
 
I don’t know who’s whackier—the guy who is selling the sandwich, or the lunatics who are bidding on it. (By the way, the link doesn’t work—the auction has been taken down again). Here’s a picture of the sandwich. OK—I do see a woman’s face. But without any photographs of the Virgin Mary to compare it with, how can we be sure that it’s her?
 

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Levonian said:
I don’t know who’s whackier—the guy who is selling the sandwich, or the lunatics who are bidding on it. (By the way, the link doesn’t work—the auction has been taken down again). Here’s a picture of the sandwich. OK—I do see a woman’s face. But without any photographs of the Virgin Mary to compare it with, how can we be sure that it’s her?
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Well, it takes one to know one! ;)

The person selling it is wacky. The people buying it are wacky as well. Heh! :crazy:
 
Somebody actually put up for auction an air guitar. The picture showed this guy playing "air guitar" and a guitar case. The case was not included, BTW. They actually had some bids too.
 
tobetaxfree said:
Somebody actually put up for auction an air guitar. The picture showed this guy playing "air guitar" and a guitar case. The case was not included, BTW. They actually had some bids too.
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I saw that one, too! It was quite funny, actually. I showed it to my husband the other day and he said it was the craziest thing ever. :lol: Same with the bottles of "hurricanes" from Florida last summer.
 
Some people do come up with crazy things to sell on Ebay!!
 
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