Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Back Up on EBay

[Jolie Rouge]

Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Back Up on EBay

MIAMI (AP) - 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.

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.

On the Net:

Virgin Mary sandwich auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=55 35890757&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-main-6-l1&flok=FF-APO-1120&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041116%2F1620950030.htm&sc=1120

[NiteQueen]

I cant imagine payin that much for an old grilled cheese sand........

[Quaker_Parrots]

Fixing link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5535890757

[andreame70]

Would you believe that someone has bid this thing up to $99,999,999.00? I wish her luck on ever collecting that from anyone, lol.

Do you think that PayPal handles money transfer's in that range?

I agree that it looks like a female in the pic, but how can she say for certain that it is the Virgin Mary? I don't think it looks like her at all.

Andrea

[Quaker_Parrots]

Kinda looks like Betty Davis, or one of the film stars from her era.

[Angel Lips]

wow, i seen this on the news lastnight

[nosamiam]

Kinda looks like Betty Davis, or one of the film stars from her era.


That is what I was thinking too.

[Tasha405]

Kinda looks like Betty Davis, or one of the film stars from her era.
That's what I think too.

[ladybugbhb]

i also saw this on the news. i can't believe someone would pay that much!! if they need things to do with thier money, i can give them a couple of my bills for them to pay!

[JWWB2000]

the bid is up to $3,000,100.00

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you believe someone is actually going to pay that much money? And ALL bidders are preapproved for the individual bid!~

[Quaker_Parrots]

Anyone look at the bid history? http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=5535890757
There are alot of retractions

[nanajoanie]

Personally I think it's a hoax. And now T-****s and stuf with the picture of the gilled cheese sandwich. Doesn't look like the Virgin Mary in and pics I've ever seeen. And why no mold. Is the Virgin Mary saving it for later. Didn't mean for that to be sacriligious but this whole thing smells of a prank of the highest magnitude. Saw this on the noon news today. Looks like it might even have been shaded in.

Has anyone everylooked up at the clouds and seen all sorts of people and critters? Same thing on the sandwich in my opinion :D


OOPS!!! My bad: the word was suppose to be T-shirts not the bad word. It was a typo. Sorry folks.

[buttrfli]

Looks like madonna to me lol

[Willow]

I thought it looked like Jayne Mansfield. She's one of my favorite actresses from the 50's and 60's but I wouldn't want the half a sandwich. lol

[Jolie Rouge]

http://cdn-channels.netscape.com/cppops/features/n/ne_odd1/i/grilled_cheese135.jpg


'Virgin Mary' sandwich sells on eBay for $28,000Online casino gobbles up grilled cheese icon
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 Posted: 6:29 AM EST (1129 GMT)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/11/23/ebay.sandwich.ap/story.sandwich.jpg
The grilled cheese sandwich sold for $28,000 on eBay. The buyer, an online casino, will use it to raise money for charity.


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HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP) -- 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.


www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/23/ebay.sandwich.ap/index.html

[MamaFairal]

WHy i agree with Nana on this one.........Why hasnt it molded? Is it preserved....lol

OK dont flame me on this one spiritual people but who has proof(real proof) of what Virgin Mary looked like? really how did they preserve images from them if they didnt have cameras?

[Jolie Rouge]

CNN Quick Poll of the Day

Is a cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary worth $28,000?

Yes 6% 7041 votes

No 94% 111883 votes

Total: 118924 votes

[janelle]

Dang, now I wish I had tried to sell my door that has ET on it. The wood grain looks just like ET. We don't live in that house anymore and no wood grain around here looks like anything famous.

BTW the Virgin Mary's likeness has been painted sort of the same over the centuries (no one knows what she looked like) and no that just looks like a woman to me. No veil or anything like that.

[QuiltingB]

Well, most images of the Virgin Mother were instilled in Western thought by the Renassaince painters, particularly Donatelllo, and these artists used very secualr ladies as their models.

I made a grilled cheese earlier and I coulda sworn I saw Elvis on it. E-Bay here I come:)