Posted on 03/23/2005 7:45:31 AM PST by advance_copy
Ten years of stovetop duty have left it a little charred and discolored, but Diana Duyser says this humble skillet gave birth to a miracle: the highly publicized Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich.
Duyser, 52, who sold the sandwich last year for $28,000, hopes to repeat that success with the skillet. She has it listed on the Internet auction site eBay, where top bid Tuesday was $152.50. But Duyser is confident she will get hundreds or even thousands more. "I'm not selling it for $152," she said. "It won't go for that; it's going to go high."
Duyser, a jewelry designer, hopes GoldenPalace.com, an online gambling concern based in Antigua, will buy the frying pan. The company bought the Virgin Mary sandwich in November, and displayed it at casinos locally and in Las Vegas.
"It goes with the cheese, it really does," she said of the pan.
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--P.T Barnum will be proven right---
Religious Grilled Cheese: Out of the pan, and into the Friar!
This is how Catholics get a bad name...
*dies* Oh, that was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Just makes you want to go nail something to a door, doesn't it? :-)
You can use it to cook the turtle with satan on its shell!
...or tell her to stop misrepresenting Catholicism :-)
Isn't this like eating the golden egg laying goose? Why doesn't she fry up more $28K cheese sandwiches?
You know, I really need to get busy listing some things on ebay.
The Catholic Church tends to ignore this nonsense.
The Church has more important things to worry about, and so, I believe, does God. I like to think that God would get a chuckle out of this, more than anything else.
Chaucer, who was a good Catholic, used to get a good laugh out of preposterous fake relics. Notice that this object was bought by a gambling casino, not by the Church, and that they probably have already gotten their money's worth of free advertising from it.
That's all to the good, because I doubt whether the sandwich will be miraculously preserved, like the body of Lenin.
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