Only on eBay - McNugget sells for $8,000

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 13:55:13 pm

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A McDonald's Chicken McNugget has fetched a whopping $8000 in an online auction for its uncanny resemblance to former US president George Washington.

Nebraska woman Rebekah Speigh bought the nugget three years ago, and was about to toss it in the trash before she noticed its likeness to the US Founding Father.

Speigh says she was treating her kids to '99 cent McNugget Tuesday' and play time at their local McDonald's when she made the presidential purchase.

"I decided to take it home and show my husband this hysterical find. We shared a moment of laughter as we joked about putting it on eBay. Then back in the freezer it went," she told The Sioux City Journal.

Speigh put her curious culinary find on eBay too, but the auction was pulled down a month ago for violating rules regulating expired food.

However, the listing was later reinstated after the online giant learnt that the nugget was being sold for charity.

Rebekah Speight says she sold the morsel of meat in a bid to raise $15,000 for a summer church camp.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/odd/a/-/odd/13 ... -for-8000/

Norm

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:17:32 pm

Damn .. you mean my lunch today was worth $600,000. :twisted:

One looked like Mother Teresa, and another like Julia Gillard.

Is Julia worth as much as Washington does anyone feel? :mrgreen:

DJM · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:38:19 pm

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Is Julia worth as much as Washington does anyone feel?

If Julia was in your lunch then I 'd be getting a taste tester - it was probably poisoned...

:lol:

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:43:59 pm

DJM wrote:

If Julia was in your lunch then I 'd be getting a taste tester - it was probably poisoned...

:lol:

I think that just eating at KFC makes that a risk.

Norm

MargoZ · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:57:28 pm

The Virgin Mary toast still trumps George Washington!

Courtesy BBC News Nov 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4034787.stm

patg · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 15:09:10 pm

A "decade old toasted cheese sandwich", and they had to put this disclaimer under it "The toast is not intended for consumption!"

Good advise

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 19:47:54 pm

fromdownunder wrote:

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A McDonald's Chicken McNugget has fetched a whopping $8000 in an online auction for its uncanny resemblance to former US president George Washington.

Nebraska woman Rebekah Speigh bought the nugget three years ago, and was about to toss it in the trash before she noticed its likeness to the US Founding Father.

Why didn't she just eat it like all the others? :shock:

I must have seen a billion McNuggets in my time and have never actually bothered to look at one that closely. It just goes in my mouth covered in sauce.

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 19:58:42 pm

Do McNuggets actually contain any chicken does anyone know?

MargoZ · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 20:09:10 pm

A case of ignorance being bliss, I'd say :lol:

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 20:12:09 pm

My goodness, please don't be urban myth idiots. I work for them.

Go ask Steggles, Biada, Inghams etc - take your pick, who do you think makes them!?

Next you'll be saying there is pig fat in the thick shakes. :roll:

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 20:17:08 pm

Allanswood - Are you a store manager?

I worked there too - and rarely ate a McNugget, honestly they taste like crap and the contents of them must be some kind of mushed up chicken bones, veins and insides. :cry:

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 20:27:23 pm

No, I hate people. :lol:

And kids.

I would have been perfect for the job. :mrgreen:

I work quietly in the background shoving paper around part time. But I've been associated with them for 13 years doing different jobs in nearly all areas and can happily answer nearly every question someone may care to ask, except for the secret recipe to Coke (although I can find it) and how much pig fat is in the average thick shake.

I'm hungry again!

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 20:35:49 pm

Sounds good.

One of the most commonly asked questions experienced by a Maccas employee, is of course the pig fat one. :lol:

A McDonalds store would have to be one of the best investments anyone could make. :idea:

MargoZ · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 20:41:42 pm

Hey- I EAT them- I just don't want to know what I'm eating!

Lakatoi 4 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 21:25:09 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

Do McNuggets actually contain any chicken does anyone know?

Absolutely

In fact a couple of years ago they proudly proclaimed in a short lived TV add (and this is totally true), that Mc.Donalds nuggets were "now with real chicken".

I, and no doubt everyone else thought at the time, "so what was in them before :?:

"

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:00:55 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

One of the most commonly asked questions experienced by a Maccas employee, is of course the pig fat one. :lol:

Well no need to insult them .. just because they are a few pounds overweight ............

GUTTERS · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:19:24 pm

Isn't reincarnation a b*#ch cut down an apple tree and come back as a chicken mcnugget

Flying Tiger · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:30:05 pm

MargoZ wrote:

The Virgin Mary toast still trumps George Washington!

Courtesy BBC News Nov 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4034787.stm

It more closely resembles Marilyn Monroe, in my opinion

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:36:49 pm

Marlene Dietrich.

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:43:40 pm

GUTTERS wrote:

Isn't reincarnation a b*#ch cut down an apple tree and come back as a chicken mcnugget

OMG you just reminded me of hot apple pies. :mrgreen:

The blasted things took about 12 minutes to cook, or something silly like that.... Each store only had one fryer basket for the apple pies and of course the brains at head office decided to run a promo on apple pies .... $1 each. Such a hassle when your drive through times are wrecked cos every customer wants a hot apple
Pie and they take forever to cook. :roll:

GeeIdontKnow · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:47:02 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

Do McNuggets actually contain any chicken does anyone know?

I suspect the ingredients list goes something like- "Beaks, Combs, Feet, Veins. May contain traces of meat." :lol:

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 22:53:09 pm

Try coping with $1 Cheeseburgers. Limit of 4.
Every second sale "4 cheeseburgers please."

The guy on the patty grill had to be resuscitated each shift change. :shock:

PS - If someone mentions "Choko", I will hunt you down! :lol:

GeeIdontKnow - :roll:

sigh...

Even the local Indian takeaway sells nuggets, why does everyone with a brand phobia pick on Maccas?

stallzer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 00:22:17 am

Is anyone besides me failing to see the resemblance between GW and the McNugget ?
Also, the money from the sale went to charity so it basically sold itself as whoever purchased it will certainly write it off on their taxes this year.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 15:17:40 pm

stallzer wrote:

Is anyone besides me failing to see the resemblance between GW and the McNugget ?
Also, the money from the sale went to charity so it basically sold itself as whoever purchased it will certainly write it off on their taxes this year.

I was looking at this yesterday and not seeing GW in there at all. Now it clicks for me. The portrait on the quarter faces left, but the nugget is facing right. You can see a large hooked nose about midway down.

Who looks that closely at their McNuggets before eating them? :roll:

The fact the proceeds were going to charity is surely what spurred bidding; the Virgin Mary on the grilled cheese sandwich was bought by an online casino, that made it a habit of buying such rubbish as a way of getting PR.

However, the purchase may not be tax-deductible. I remember in Canada how popular the annual Cancer Lottery was. Buy a C$100 ticket, and have a chance at winning a million, or a house. They tempted you with "1 in 6 odds of winning", but if you're one of the other 5, you're out a fair chunk of change. The tickets were deemed non-tax deductible because they were not a 'true' donation, you were buying something.

Catweazle · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 17:07:33 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

The blasted things took about 12 minutes to cook, or something silly like that.... Each store only had one fryer basket for the apple pies and of course the brains at head office decided to run a promo on apple pies .... $1 each. Such a hassle when your drive through times are wrecked cos every customer wants a hot apple
Pie and they take forever to cook. :roll:

Is that why there only ever seems to be, at the most, one left in that little apple-pie-shelf-thingy? Actually, I've never tried one. Will have to one day, just for the experience. Are they any good, like the pig fat icecreams? Or are they just as crummy as KFC?

As anyone noticed recently (in Australia) how Hungry Jacks has got rid of all their nice burgers and changed to a more McDonalds-style menu, and McDonalds has changed all their burgers to the nice mayonnaisey-salady things like the ones Hungries used to have?

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 17:27:17 pm

Speaking of pies, McD's here have done limited-time offers for "Purple Sweet Potato Pie" and "Taro Pie". Not a fan of taro, so didn't try it, but the sweet potato was quite good. Didn't see any faces on them though. :lol:

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 17:28:42 pm

Catweazle , They are delicious.

But full of fat and sugar so no good for you. And yeah thats probably why there is only ever one left! :wink:

aethelwulf What is taro? What is purple potato? :shock:

Allanswood · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 17:52:36 pm

New Zealand did a Cherry pie when I was over there on holiday, fabulous. They can't do it here though. They wanted to but the entire Aussie cherry harvest isn't big enough. :shock:

The other nice seasonal pie they do is the apple and custard pie. Yum.

I asked them once why they didn't offer "hotcakes with ice cream and chocolate topping" at dinner time? They gave me a funny reply "who has ice cream with hotcakes?" :shock:

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 19:05:47 pm

North Americans will be familiar with "yam", a.k.a. sweet potato; orange in colour, and yes, slightly sweet. In Asia, there is also a sweet potato, that is a light purple in colour. It's quite tasty actually, fear not the colour. Remember when Heinz did technicolour ketchup?

Taro is a root vegetable from all over Asia, Japan to Thailand. Quite hard, needs long boiling to soften it up.

As google is your friend, some visual accompaniment:

(Purple) Sweet Potato

Taro

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 19:11:47 pm

Thanks

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 20:38:33 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

Catweazle , They are delicious.

But full of fat and sugar so no good for you. And yeah thats probably why there is only ever one left! :wink:

Since this is becoming a "pick on fast food for being unhealthy", maybe someone in Canada can share with us the story of how ridiculously popular KFC's "double-down" was when it was offered there "for a limited time"--a coronary-clogging deep-fried burger nightmare.

phoebes · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 20:43:56 pm

A couple of the stamps I've bought on ebay look like that Mcnugget. Maybe they're worth something after all

stallzer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 00:42:12 am

aethelwulf wrote:

KFC's "double-down" was when it was offered there "for a limited time"--a coronary-clogging deep-fried burger nightmare.

A funny quote from Conan O'Brien (Late night talk show host in the US).

"Osama bin Laden is dead, which means the No. 1 threat to America is now the KFC Double Down."

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 02:06:11 am

I had some spare time so I did a little google on the double-down. In less than 1 month, more than 1 million of them were sold in Canada -- which has a population of 33 million.

540 calories, 30 grams of fat and 1,740 milligrams of sodium ... The average adult's daily salt intake should be closer to 1,500 mg.

Catweazle · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 15:42:13 pm

Well at least you won't have floppy arteries! :lol:

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 16:01:34 pm

aethelwulf wrote:

From a pareidolia point of view, that looks a lot like a blindfolded crocodile with a mouthful of cheese. Quick! Put it on eBay!

Norm

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 16:03:23 pm

Heart attack waiting to happen -

Who would even buy something so disgusting?

Apart from the fact that these are terrible for your health, they probaly taste like crap too.

Micky · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 22:58:07 pm

I know which one I prefer, and it's not the edible one. Can you tell the difference between them, they do look similar :lol:

NOT!!

or

Micky

Jack · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 03:19:30 am

'A funny quote from Conan O'Brien (Late night talk show host in the US).

"Osama bin Laden is dead, which means the No. 1 threat to America is now the KFC Double Down."'

Funny? That's accurate commentary isn't it?

stallzer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 07:45:43 am

Actually it is very funny. Believe it or not, there are quite a few of us Americans that do eat healthy and are not obese. I couldn't tell you the last time I ate fast food such as McDonalds and I do not allow my children to eat it except for maybe a few times a year.

douglas5102 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2012 15:58:11 pm

fromdownunder wrote:

aethelwulf wrote:

From a pareidolia point of view, that looks a lot like a blindfolded crocodile with a mouthful of cheese. Quick! Put it on eBay!

Norm

God just looking at it I can feel my artries harden. It does look like a croc without eyes not to mention had it once w/o bacon it did taste like a old boot and Nuggets here in the US do contain real chicken; it it looks like a nugget the grill cheese is more conviencing.


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