We're not sure why anyone would spend a spare few hundred dollars on a Chicken McNugget, but one woman in Iowa is trying to sell an old one just because it looks sort of like George Washington.
Dakota City resident Rebekah Speights has put a Chicken McNugget on auction because she says the bite-sized chicken piece resembles George Washington, the Huffington Post reports. Speights found the presidential fast food item three years ago, and she almost threw it out before realizing that it looks just like our founding father.
She kept it in her freezer for three years before putting it up for auction this week, under a listing entitled "Rare President George Washington Chicken McNugget." At the time of writing this, the auction was listed at $2,025. The proceeds will go to the Sioux City Family Worship Center to fund a kids' summer camp.
Of course, it's a bit surprising to see George make an appearance in a fast food item, as it usually seems to be the Son of God-or his mother Mary-that people spy in their food.
An entire website is devoted to things that look like Jesus, aptly titled "Stuff that Looks Like Jesus."
Among the food items on the site is a pizza, whose shades of dark and light cheese really do resemble paintings of Jesus. The pizza, spotted in Australia, also went on auction on eBay. Jesus must be less popular -- or perhaps just less publicized -- than George Washington, though, because the pie only sold for $153 AUS in March 2011.
Perhaps more famous was the Virgin Mary toast that sold for a whopping $28,000 in 2004.
The discolorations in the toast created an image that did look startlingly like an image of Mother Mary, as seen in a BBC article.
The toast was put on auction on eBay when it was a decade old. The age of the bread didn't sway curious visitors, because the listing received 1.7 million hits.
The owner of the slice of toast even claimed that it contained special powers: The bread gathered no mold and did not crumble, even though it was kept in a plastic box; and the owner, Floridian Diane Duyser, earned $70,000 in a casino the week before this article was published.
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