CNN.com - 'Virgin Mary' sandwich back on eBay "Diana Duyser 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 nearly 100,000 times before being taken down. 'How could eBay do this to me?' Duyser said Monday, hours before the online auction was supposed to have ended. On Tuesday, the Web site allowed bidding to resume, with the top offer reaching over $16,000. Bidding is scheduled to end Monday." Yahoo! News - Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Back Up on EBay "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."
I definitely think the old Jesus face on a tortilla is more convincing than any of these newfangled religious images on lunchtime food products. I wonder what happened to the old tortilla from 1977 anyway.
My friend Lesile is the one who first told me the story about the Jesus face on the tortilla, just a few years ago. I seem to remember my pal Jason telling me about a Mary face on a cheese sandwich, or some kind of a sandwich, a couple of years back, though I'm not sure if it's the very same cheese sandwich - but how many could there possibly be? (Though apparently everyone's jumping on the ebay cheese sandwich bandwagon, according to Mike Z..)
It's got me thinking... A couple of months ago I came across a guy who was drawing a Jesus face on a styrofoam cup. It was quite a fine rendering actually. I think he may have thrown it away! And to think...
The next time I see 'the Jesus face on a styrofoam cup guy', I'm going to thrust another styrofoam cup & indelible pen at him, and beg him to draw another for me, so I can post it on the internet and try to sell it. No point in using a middle man like eBay, so not to worry, you'll see it here first! And hey, I'm tellin' ya, his drawing was a heck of a lot more aesthetic than the Jesus face on the tortilla or the Mary face on the cheese sandwich, and a styrofoam cup will never rot and never need to be stored with moth balls, but it is still a mealtime item! I think I'm onto something here! (CNN link via Mike Zeller's Weblog)
Update: 27 November 2004
Fred Whan kept a fish stick in his freezer for a year, and now apprently he's thawed it out hoping to cash in on the lunchtime religious icons bandwagon.
The thing is, I think the 'face' on the fish stick looks more like Kris Kristopherson than Jesus. azcentral.com - Man says fish stick has Jesus' face "An eastern Ontario man is hoping to make a bit of money by auctioning a fish stick he says looks like Jesus."
posted by Chloe | Wednesday 17 November 2004 6:18 AM
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I definitely think the old Jesus face on a tortilla is more convincing than any of these newfangled religious images on lunchtime food products. I wonder what happened to the old tortilla from 1977 anyway.
Update: 27 November 2004
