The cop, the stripper and the Holy Toast

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The Independent
A humble cheese sandwich with an image of the Virgin Mary apparently burnt into it sold for $28,000 on eBay. Jim DeFede gave the public a chance to test their faith when he escorted the 'icon' to its new home in Las Vegas
16 December 2004


I am on a mission, a holy quest. A week ago, a woman from Hollywood, Florida sold a grilled cheese sandwich on the auction website eBay for $28,000 (£14,500). The woman claims not only that the sandwich is 10 years old, but that it also bears the likeness of the Virgin Mary.

"I made the sandwich the way I normally do," Diana Duyser tells me when we meet. "Two slices of Publix white bread, two slices of Land O'Lakes American cheese. No butter, no margarine, no oil in the pan. And when I took a bite out of it, I saw her. It was the Virgin Mary. So I spit out the part I had eaten, and I put the rest of the sandwich in this plastic case my father gave me."

She kept it on the table by her bed for a decade, believing that its presence has contributed to her winnings of $70,000 at a nearby casino. But times have changed: her husband no longer works, the couple have no health insurance, and no one knows how much she has also lost at the same casino. After her father died, she decided to see how much she could get for it on eBay. "I was shocked," she said of the $28,000 bid.

The buyers are an Antigua-based online casino, GoldenPalace.com, whose owners live in London. They have bought the sandwich for the publicity. They have bought it as a stunt.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593576

Cheeeesus....

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1. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

[AllegroRondo]

2. I beleive it was a blessing to anyone working in the dairy professions

Did he say blessed are the Greek??