Crosses in potatoes appear to online sellers

[Kadie]

Crosses in potatoes appear to online sellers
By NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, January 5, 2010
(01-05) 18:03 PST Iowa City, Iowa (AP) --

Move over, Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese. Step aside, Fish Stick Jesus. Online bidders, meet the Holy Cross Potato. Both of them. Yes, the 2009 holiday season bestowed (at least) two miraculous spuds with crosses at their centers. Aside from the sizes of the spuds, the main difference is price.

The potato discovered first, by Dennis Bort of Brunswick, Ohio, on Christmas Day, was listed Tuesday on eBay with an asking bid of $1,000. The second, found by a couple in Marion, Iowa, on New Year's Eve, was on sale with bids starting at $2.

The listings don't say much about the conditions of the potatoes, though both definitely have been halved.

Bort said he and his wife had just returned from vacation and were "trying to scrounge together a Christmas dinner with what wasn't spoiled in our fridge."

He settled on, among other things, mashed potatoes.

"So I peel the potatoes and I'm getting ready to do it," Bort said, "and I see what you saw in the picture" — that is, two skinned potato halves with what appear to be crosses at their centers.

"I said, aw, holy crap, it's a cross," said Bort, a police detective.



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This photo provided by Jim Gross of Marion, Iowa, shows a peeled a potato with a cross design inside that he and his wife Connie discovered on Dec. 31. Two Midwestern families are hoping for a little leftover holiday spirit - and cash - after they found what appear to be crosses inside potatoes.

Photo: Jim Gross / AP



This photo provided by Det. Dennis Bort shows a potato with a cross design inside that he and his wife discovered on Dec. 25 in Brunswick, Ohio. Two Midwestern families are hoping for a little leftover holiday spirit - and cash - after they found what appear to be crosses inside potatoes.

Photo: Dennis Bort / AP

[jillan]

1. That $1000 potato has NO bids.

What kind of crazy person lists that anyway?

Edit to add link http://cgi.ebay.com/Holy-Cross-found-in-potato-on-Christmas-Day_W0QQitemZ260532505552QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca8f28bd0#ht_500wt_1182

[boston bean]

2. There is nothing worse than slicing into a baked potato and

finding that. Actually, I think it's evil.

[Quantess]

4. I know. I think it's a sign of an overripe potato.

I always scoop it out when I get a cross in the middle of the potato.

[Shell Beau]

3. What if they'd cut it the other way? It would still be a bad potato.

[jillan]

5. Bwahahaha - someone is selling a potato chip with a cross. It looks like its A Ruffles.

I can't get over this :P


http://cgi.ebay.com/Potato-Chip-with-Holy-Cross-or-4-Leaf-Clover-Shape_W0QQitemZ360219427377QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item53dec04231#ht_500wt_1182