Crosses in spuds
5 January 2010 by Stardust
It’s been awhile since there have been any news stories concerning culinary iconography. Seems though that there aren’t any suckers ready to spend money for these holy spuds. Could it be because people are wising up? Nah, people revere these sort of things a lot less when the economy is crappy.
Crosses in potatoes appear to online sellers
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Move over, Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese. Step aside, Fish Stick Jesus. Online bidders may now buy two potatoes containing likenesses of crosses in their centers. One was found by an Iowa family and the other by a police detective in Ohio.
Jim Gross of Marion, Iowa, says his wife was peeling their potato on New Year’s Eve when she found the cross shape. The spud is on sale for eBay, with bids starting at $2.
Dennis Bort of Brunswick, Ohio, says he found the cross shape in his potato on Christmas Day.
Bort listed his spud for $1,000. He hasn’t found any bidders yet.
In the past, collectors have paid big bucks for items deemed to have been blessed by the appearance of a religious symbol, including $28,000 for a partially eaten grilled cheese sandwich with the likeness of the Virgin Mary.
5 January 2010, on 8:32 pm
One night as I was preparing a pot of my trademark Irish stew, I retrieved a half-onion from the back of the vegetable drawer.
There it was! A perfect smiley-face on the onion. Two little round green eyes, a crooked half-smile.
Of all the rotten Irish-atheist luck. The Christians get crosses in potatoes, Jesus on a tortilla, the BVM under a bridge and make thousands.
Me, I get a smiley-face in an onion. I diced little onion smiley-face into the stew. Damn, it was good!
6 January 2010, on 11:43 am
We see these stories over and over. But it frustrates me that no one raises a very important question. If people see the likeness of the Virgin Mary (in oil stains, sandwiches etc.), it assumes that they KNOW what Mary looked like, doesn’t it.
I don’t think that there were any cameras around then. All these ‘likenesses’ are recognized as such because they are based on paintings that were done centuries after Mary’s death. If we don’t know what she looked like, how can we recognize ‘likenesses’ of her?
6 January 2010, on 1:37 pm
Pardon me for interupting the “Golden Silence”?…again? Did everybody, Worldwide, get snowed in lately…’tsunami’d'…or just plain frozen? Yikes!…Even Florida’s gettin’ frozen!
And speaking of Florida; whatever happened to our longtime Gifster, Eve?
Anyway…
Stardust?…Is the below link, perhaps, an actual photo of…
“A fundie in search of…”
[that (accidentally misplaced) eBay spud with the cross?]
Or maybe…and, indeed, much more commonplace…
“A fundie reading his bible”?
http://bastardlogic.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/head_up_ass.jpg
2010, huh?
“The more things change…yada, zama.”
Sorry, folks, for all those dumb questions.
6 January 2010, on 1:43 pm
A cross in a potato? Looks more to me like an arrowhead piercing something.
6 January 2010, on 2:57 pm
hogarm and Brooklyn Boy’s comments were being held captive by the queue gremlins. WTF is up with Word Press?
6 January 2010, on 5:25 pm
I’ve seen FSM on a broken toilet lamp in Finland
6 January 2010, on 7:52 pm
Chuck A
http://bastardlogic.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/head_up_ass.jpg
A picture is worth a thousand words. Fantastic!
6 January 2010, on 9:46 pm
The sad thing is that there are a couple of suckers out there somewhere who will pay money for rotten potatoes.