Virgin Mary Sandwich Back on eBay

Sun-Sentinel ^ | Nov 16,2004 | ap news

[telder1]

Half of 10-year-old Virgin Mary sandwich back on eBay

Associated Press & sun-sentinel.com Posted November 16 2004, 4:25 PM EST

HOLLYWOOD -- 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 isn't a joke.

[jtminton]

A local country station here in Ft. Worth had her on this morning (95.9 The Ranch). I got the impression that she's just trying to make a buck. Then again, if I had a 22k sandwich, I wouldn't think twice about selling it, either.

[bonfire]

Hell, I'm in the kitchen concocting "art" right now! Ebay here I come!

[right wing]

You've got to post a picture of it! Pretty please?

[jtminton]

Put me down for $10k for whatever you end up with. A corndog that looks like a Saturn rocket would be cool.

[CR]

[telder1]

apparently no one noticed the sacredness of the possible situation before they took a bite.... ah, the power of cheese. --But, hey, it's got its own neat plastic sleeve and no doubt the wooden, velvet lined carrying case wasn't shown. It's an offical collectible now, like a baseball card. (But since it is cheesy, how will anyone distinguish the natural oil of the cheese from olive oil that the image might cry...)

[LibFreeOrDie]

Looks more like Marlene Dietrich to me...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000017/photogallery-mptv-12

[CR]

I agree. I keep thinking there is a Virgin Mary in there that I am not seeing. Instead of Marlene Dietrich

[Unam Sanctam]

The face of Jonah Goldberg, of National Review Online, is apparently on the other side:

http://www.rightsideredux.com/archives/2004_11_01_archive.html#110064132957715623

[freepatriot32]

its up to 69,000 dollars now

[freepatriot32]

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

[TotusTuus]

On another thread, somebody suggested Mae West

[rrammfcitkttur01_2006]

Well I was talking to one of my friends today and remarked that if I threw a can full of blue paint on the wall and wanted to see the Virgin Mary or anyone else, I would see it. I think this is craziness. And I am glad that the Magesterium of the Church does speak out against some of these bizarre cases.

I wonder what the lady who owned this one of a kind grill cheese sandwich was smoking when she looked at it. Because try as I can, I cannot for the life of me find the Blessed Virgin.

Note, when I was a kid, I would make many designs on the grill cheese. It soon became a favorite pastime. I would save some of my works but after a few weeks they made the way of the dumpster. I think this sandwich has been chemically altered or something like that.

I feel sorry for the idiot who will buy this from her. Oh well, we must be entertained somehow, and it is better that someone else does it rather than ourselves.

[rrammfcitkttur01_2006]

Well I was talking to one of my friends today and remarked that if I threw a can full of blue paint on the wall and wanted to see the Virgin Mary or anyone else, I would see it. I think this is craziness. And I am glad that the Magesterium of the Church does speak out against some of these bizarre cases.

I wonder what the lady who owned this one of a kind grill cheese sandwich was smoking when she looked at it. Because try as I can, I cannot for the life of me find the Blessed Virgin.

Note, when I was a kid, I would make many designs on the grill cheese. It soon became a favorite pastime. I would save some of my works but after a few weeks they made the way of the dumpster. I think this sandwich has been chemically altered or something like that.

I feel sorry for the idiot who will buy this from her. Oh well, we must be entertained somehow, and it is better that someone else does it rather than ourselves.

[mikrofon]

Then there was the guy a few years back who tried to hawk the Shroud of TouristGuy