It's food. It's historic.

Barry Popik
(Who once drank a "Virgin Mary," but that's another story)


Subj: OT: Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Date: 11/23/2004 11:20:37 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Bapopik
To:
Cc: ASmith1946, Beckymercuri


Cheesus!

Maybe I'll cross-post this to rec.food.historic.


http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/arti...22230809990009

Updated: 08:40 AM EST
$28,000 Bid for Unique Grilled Cheese Sandwich

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Nov. 22) - 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.

11/22/04 23:07 EST

(Barry Popik) wrote in
om:

> Subj: OT: Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Virgin Mary's are a dime a dozen. Here's the real deal:

From Nation's Restaurant News, 19OCT1998

BRAS D'OR, Nova Scotia -- A Tim Horton's doughnut shop has become one
of the hottest attractions in this small Atlantic Coast town; not
because residents and tourists suddenly crave mass quantities of
baked goods, rather, they're converging there to see an image that
people say resembles Jesus Christ, which has appeared on the side of
the building.

The image was discovered last month by staff at the nearby Lick-A-
Chick restaurant. According to a waitress interviewed by Reuters News
Service, the image is most visible at night, and appears to have
moved along the wall from its original position.

A spokeswoman for Tim Horton's said the company is "puzzled by the
whole situation." Evidently, however, the news has created more of a
traffic nightmare than a restaurateur's dream, with people and cars
jamming the streets around the shop.

There has been no word from the Vatican on what Christ may be craving
with this latest appearance. Perhaps He's just looking for Elvis.

--

"It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven seated
comfortably on the back of a camel, than it is for
a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle."

Supply Side Jesus

(Barry Popik) wrote in
om:

> Subj: OT: Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Virgin Mary's are a dime a dozen. Here's the real deal:

From Nation's Restaurant News, 19OCT1998

BRAS D'OR, Nova Scotia -- A Tim Horton's doughnut shop has become one
of the hottest attractions in this small Atlantic Coast town; not
because residents and tourists suddenly crave mass quantities of
baked goods, rather, they're converging there to see an image that
people say resembles Jesus Christ, which has appeared on the side of
the building.

The image was discovered last month by staff at the nearby Lick-A-
Chick restaurant. According to a waitress interviewed by Reuters News
Service, the image is most visible at night, and appears to have
moved along the wall from its original position.

A spokeswoman for Tim Horton's said the company is "puzzled by the
whole situation." Evidently, however, the news has created more of a
traffic nightmare than a restaurateur's dream, with people and cars
jamming the streets around the shop.

There has been no word from the Vatican on what Christ may be craving
with this latest appearance. Perhaps He's just looking for Elvis.

--

"It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven seated
comfortably on the back of a camel, than it is for
a poor man to pass through the eye of a needle."

Supply Side Jesus

Michel Boucher wrote:

> (Barry Popik) wrote in
> om:
>
>> Subj: OT: Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich
>
> Virgin Mary's are a dime a dozen. Here's the real deal:
>
> From Nation's Restaurant News, 19OCT1998
>
> BRAS D'OR, Nova Scotia -- A Tim Horton's doughnut shop has become one
> of the hottest attractions in this small Atlantic Coast town; not
> because residents and tourists suddenly crave mass quantities of
> baked goods, rather, they're converging there to see an image that
> people say resembles Jesus Christ, which has appeared on the side of
> the building.
>
> The image was discovered last month by staff at the nearby Lick-A-
> Chick restaurant. According to a waitress interviewed by Reuters News
> Service, the image is most visible at night, and appears to have
> moved along the wall from its original position.
>
> A spokeswoman for Tim Horton's said the company is "puzzled by the
> whole situation." Evidently, however, the news has created more of a
> traffic nightmare than a restaurateur's dream, with people and cars
> jamming the streets around the shop.
>
> There has been no word from the Vatican on what Christ may be craving
> with this latest appearance. Perhaps He's just looking for Elvis.

<LOL> And here I thought Chock Full O' Nuts was the "heavenly coffee."

Pastorio

None of my Italian friends know of one, and I haven't found one in a
dictionary.

Bob???

Or anyone else?

Lazarus

--
Remover the rock from the email address

Lazarus Cooke wrote:

> None of my Italian friends know of one, and I haven't found one in a
> dictionary.
>
> Bob???

Bob is at a loss. I couldn't recall any specific word we ever used
beyond "capelli" or "hairs." I asked my sister. She agreed with that.
I called Emilio Amato, a genyoowine Italian who owns a restaurant here
and asked him and he puzzled it for a minute and came up just as dry
as we did. He said "centro" which just means "middle" or "center."

I'll see if anyone else who might know can tell me and I'll post it if
I find anything. I've forwarded this note to Kyle Phillips who is
likely to know.

Pastorio

Lazarus Cooke wrote:

> None of my Italian friends know of one, and I haven't found one in a
> dictionary.
>
> Bob???

Bob is at a loss. I couldn't recall any specific word we ever used
beyond "capelli" or "hairs." I asked my sister. She agreed with that.
I called Emilio Amato, a genyoowine Italian who owns a restaurant here
and asked him and he puzzled it for a minute and came up just as dry
as we did. He said "centro" which just means "middle" or "center."

I'll see if anyone else who might know can tell me and I'll post it if
I find anything. I've forwarded this note to Kyle Phillips who is
likely to know.

Pastorio