So I've looked at photographs of this grilled cheese sandwich that sold for $22,000 because it's alleged to have an image of the Virgin Mary in it.
There's an image there, to be sure. But since no one knows what the Virgin Mary looks like, why is there an automatic assumption it's her?
Personally, I think it looks like Greta Garbo. Anyone else have an opinion on who she looks like?
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Posted by Peter David at November 23, 2004 05:46 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingI've heard Marlene Dietrich.
And this reminds me of the bit at the end of the West Wing pilot, where Bartlet tells the story about the little girl in Latin America who cut a tomato, and the flesh inside formed a perfect rosary, and the priests said it was a very impressive girl, and Annie said it was a very impressive tomato.
I think it looks like Lauren Bacall. I always figured the virgin Mary had to look more like the woman from throw Mama from the Train, I mean there HAD to be a reason why she was still a virgin, and when she turned up pregnant, Joseph was willing to accept she hadn't cheated on him.
Annie being Bartlet's granddaughter, of course.
It looks like the face of a Chines woman named Ka-ching.
People really are stupid, they'll buy anything.
I thought it loooked like Madonna - not the madonna... Mary didn't really have time to be uglky - she was only a teenager when she was "blessed by the Holy Spirit". It's been said that the Virgin birth was added to make the story more palatable to the Romans and Greeks who believed in gods who impregnated young virgins... One of the things that makews me seriously doubt the "virgin" part of the the birth. I tend to believe Joseph was the biological father and God was the adoptive father... JMHO, of course.
She looks a little skinny for Mary. Calista Flockhart maybe?
Given the gaunt face and the hood, I figure it's not the Virgin Mary but someone else close to God--the Spectre. (Not the Hal Jordan edition).
re: I thought it loooked like Madonna
Did you know that Madonna writes children's books? :0)
Good one, Jay. (Ka-Ching!)
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Sometimes a cheese sandwich is just a cheese sandwich.
Who's to say the seller didn't just scrape the burnt parts off in that pattern, even?
I think it looks like David Bowie.
The Virgin Mary wears the cheese. The cheese does not wear her.
But how many people will take it as proof of the existence? It'll get it's own parade. I've got to say, the quality of that whole debate has slipped a little since Thomas Aquinas. From "But how do you account for the existence of something as miraculous as intelligence with-out the Divine" to "See, it's his mum's face in this sandwich".
Bet the pope bought it.
Sorry, that was a joke. Nothing against Catholics, that's most of my family.
I think it looks like the kitten I sodomized and then threw over a cliff so he wouldn't end up telling. But come on, the Virgin Mary, THAT broad's nuts!!
The first thought I had was that she looks like Jean Harlow.
I think it needs to be carbon dated to prove that it's as old as the seller claims it is.
And then we can have religious folks argue those results endlessly as well. :)
Haven't seen it. Any one have a link to the image?
Well Peter,
You can always look at it like this...a distant relative of P.T. Barnum needed some quick cash and drew an image of the virgin Mary on a sandwich.
$22,000 for a sandwich, and there are people living homeless in NYC...what a waste of resources.
Regards:
Warren S. Jones III
Can somebody tell me if eating a sandwich with a picture of the Virgin Mary is sacrilege or a sacrament?
The bidding is up to $28,000 now; here's a link to the eBay page:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=5535890757&rd=1
There's also a CNN story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/ebay.sandwich.ap/
Pretty amazing (not the picture in the cheese sandwich... the fact that people are willing to pay so much for this "artifact.")
I see a butterfly,pretty butterfly,Sorry just thinking of Rorschach from the WATCHMEN.Thats all this is folks,its a Rorschach test.Some see the Virgin Mary others see Kermit the Frog.Its lke when you were a kid looking at clouds.Besides a GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH??????Come on !!
Jezzie: "The Virgin Mary wears the cheese." Yeah, but does she cut the cheese?
Well we could all see this coming--now some guy says he's going to sell his "fish-stick that looks like Jesus".
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041124/NATS24-8/TPNational/Canada
I don't know if this already exists but wouldn't it be easy to design a taco maker or toaster that used variable heating elements to burn an image of Mary, Jesus, Jim Morrison, whatever. "Makes every meal a miracle!" look, this stuff just writes itself, just get this thing into production and send me some residuals.
Well, Bill, about 10 years or so ago, the Weekly World News reported on a "satanic toaster" that imprinted pentagrams, an inverted cross, and the number "666" onto toast.
It kinda looks like my Aunt Gertie and kinda like my brother-in-law. Sort of a cross between 'em... not that either of 'em ever took 28 grand for anything.
But if someone wants to pay $20,000 for a picture of my Aunt, please let me know! Cashier's checks, cash, or negotiable items only, please!
And happy turkey day, y'all!
I'm ashamed of you guys. Don't any of you watch "Aqua Teen Hunger Force?"
The picture on the cheese sandwich is the guy who can only be called "Gee-Whiz" on television. You know, the guy with long hair, the one who works miracles, the guy beloved by millions all across the world.
You know, Ted Nugent.
Comedian picks up grilled cheese sandwich and looks at it: "That's funny, you don't look Jewish."
Whoever the actress was that played the vampire in the crappy sequel (starring Jon Bon Jovi, no less) to the crappy movie version of Vampire$.
Maybe the Virgin Mary looked like Greta Garbo....
BLR
You could make one of these yourself. Take a cheese sandwich and paint on an oil or something that will help the browning. You could aslo dampen the areas you want to leave light. Cook in pan until desired image appears. Sell on Ebay. And let's face it, any female looking image is ALWAYS the Virgin Mary.
It looks to me like a pre-emptive strike by the Bush administration, in deference to their 52% 'mandate', to make us all Christian. You are what you eat (even though I'd have a hard time explaining to my mother that I just 'ate' the virgin mary).
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Kidding, by the way - don't get your knickers in a twist.
The owner's place must be quite a site come Easter. People from miles around must gather to bare witness to the blessed Grilled Cheese Sandwich (or the "Sandwich Grillé ŕ Fromage", if you're French).
Mike Baron, the writer of the great Nexus comic book series, wrote of characters called "Elvonics" who zealously worshipped Elvis Presley. Anyone have suggestions about what to call the worshippers of a cheese sandwich?
Well, c'mon, Peter -- why would one expect Great Garbo to appear on a grilled cheese sandwich? The Holy Blessed Virgin, on the other hand, ahs a long track record of manifesting Herself on foodstuffs, dirty window panes, blown TV picture tubes....
As a special deal to all the people on this site I'm willing to sell you all a cheese sandwhich for only $1000 each. Sure the face is drawn on with texta but hey it's a bargin.
So the person who bought the sandwich can't resist taking a bite to see if it might impart the powers of the deities on him or her. Unfortunately, he or she is so excited that he or she forgets to chew thoroughly, winds up choking, and dies. Sadly his or her epitaph is a feature on the Darwin Awards page for 2 reasons:
1) The obvious.
2) Being stupid enough to buy the thing in the first place.
Either way the gene pool is likely a better place.....