A Chicken McNugget shaped like George Washington brought $8,100 in an eBay auction. From the Mother Teresa "Nun Bun" to Bob Dylan steak, here are some profitable celebrity food sightings.
A Nebraska woman got quite a return on her 99-cent investment. Three years ago she noticed one of her McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets resembled President George Washington, and she put it in the freezer. Then, trying to raise money for her church’s summer camp, she unearthed the Washington nugget and posted it on eBay. The winning bid: $8,100. EBay took down the nugget at first, saying it violated its rules regulating expired food, but then the woman got an email saying the company was “willing to make exceptions to help your cause.”
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Royal wedding hysteria knows no bounds. When Wesley Hosie, 25, reached into a bag of jelly beans from The Jelly Bean Factory, he, along with his girlfriend, Jessica White, immediately noticed the face of the future queen— Kate Middleton—in the candy. "As Jessica opened the jar, I saw her immediately. She was literally lying there staring back at me," Hosie told The Telegraph. While the royal bean has yet to make an appearance on eBay, Hosie, a trainee accountant, expects to fetch at least £500 ($820) for the sweet. All hail the royal jelly bean.
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With all due respect to Kate Middleton, there is no one whose face shows up on food more than Jesus Christ. Donna Lee came across this vision on, fittingly, Palm Sunday. "I was frying pierogies, and when I turned this one over the face of the Lord was fried into it," she said. She was actually cooking the Polish dumplings for Easter dinner in her home in Point Place, Ohio. Lee kept it in her freezer before GoldenPalace.com made the winning eBay bid of $1,775. Amen.
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Back in the autumn of '94, Diane Duyser of Florida was about to dig into a grilled cheese sandwich when she noticed the image of the Virgin Mary. "I went to take a bite out of it, and then I saw this lady looking back at me," she said,
according to the BBC. After her holy find, Duyser preserved the sandwich in a plastic box, and over a decade later, it hadn't gone moldy or crumbled. Furthermore, Duyser claimed the sandwich has "mystical powers," and helped her win $70,000 at a Florida casino near her home. She eventually put the sandwich on eBay in 2004, where it was purchased for $28,000 from the betting website GoldenPalace.com. "We will definitely use the sandwich to raise money for charity, and we hope it will raise people's spirits as well," said Richard Rowe, the casino's CEO.
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more! According to the Hebrew School blog, "I was minding my own business last week, pan-searing a dry-aged sirloin, when who appeared but one Mr. Robert Zimmerman." The blogger thought about putting the steak up on eBay, but got a little "too hungry" and ate the tender meat bearing the visage of the folk legend. Don't think twice, it's all right.
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Back in 1996, a customer discovered a cinnamon bun bearing a striking resemblance to the late Catholic nun Mother Teresa. The "Nun Bun" drew tourists to the Bongo Java coffee shop in Nashville, Tennessee, where it was preserved in a glass case. The shop sold T-shirts, prayer cards, and mugs with the buns image. However, it was stolen from its case in late 2005 and has never been found. Shop owner Bob Bernstein said he thought the thief was upset by the display, since he "went right for the bun," according to the BBC, completely ignoring cash lying nearby. "Unfortunately I think it's somebody who wanted to take it to destroy it," said Bernstein.
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Call it The King of Chips. In 2008, Suzan Brakebill Cole was sitting down for a tuna sandwich when she discovered a sour cream and onion potato chip that looked, in her opinion, just like Elvis Presley. "I can't believe I saw it before I popped it in my mouth. I've heard of people finding all kinds of odd shapes in their potato chips, but never thought much about it." Cole told Central Illinois' NewsCenter. The chip was discovered in a bag of J. Higgs sour cream and onion flavor potato chips that was purchased from an Idabel, Oklahoma, Sav-A-Lot store. She eventually sold the chip on eBay for an unknown sum.
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She's not known to make you cry—except, perhaps, in The Color Purple—but the visage of famed comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, with her trademark dreads and glasses, was nonetheless discovered by an anonymous blogger in none other than a cut onion.
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Is this the modern day equivalent of a prehistoric cave painting? A user submitted a photo to the blog Totally Looks Like of a chocolate smear on an apartment wall that bears a striking resemblance to none other than the boy-wizard Harry Potter flying through the air on a broom. Quidditch, anyone?
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