DAKOTA CITY, Neb. — Call it McWashington.
A Nebraska woman has sold a three-year-old McDonald’s Chicken McNugget that resembles President George Washington for $8,100 on eBay.
The Sioux City Journal in Iowa says bidding ended just after 11:30 a.m. Monday.
Rebekah Speight of Dakota City sold the McNugget to raise money for a drive to raise $15,000 and send 50 children to summer church camp in Sioux City.
Speight says her children didn’t eat the chicken during a McDonald’s visit three years ago. She was about to toss it, then spotted Washington’s resemblance. Speight stashed the McNugget in her freezer.
eBay had temporarily taken down the auction last month because it violated rules regulating expired food.
She later received an email saying the site was “willing to make exceptions to help your cause.”
Now everyone is going to be looking at McNuggets a lot closer.
The fact that that nugget is three years old and still looks like it was just bought…is completely disgusting. Exactly why I don’t eat at McDonald’s!
Read often?
From the article: Speight stashed the McNugget in her freezer
Probably wouldn’t have mattered if she had just left it on the counter:
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/17/happy-meal-is-ageles.html
Take the same happy meal and stick it outside and see what will happen or keep it inside in a very hot and moist environment. It will rot.
You don’t need to be rude. I was pointing out the fact that after three years, that nugget is still not decomposed. Even in the freezer, foods can go bad.
Because she kept it in a freezer, duh!
8000 dollars for a chicken McNugget. Wow! If it wasn’t for a good cause I’d be sorely tempted to quote P.T. Barnum’s observation about how a sucker is born every minute, along with a multitude of people, I am sure.
I have one in my freezer that looks an awful lot like Jesus.
Sauce with that?
Nice to see someone has money t waste
Rent “Supersize Me”. You’ll never eat at McDonalds again…
I didn’t know George had greasy hair.
Yuck!!!
Hope someone doesn’t eat it by mistake. $8000 down the drain.
Looks more like Julius Caesar to me…
um…slow news day??
I’ve got a birth mark on my derrière that resembles Ryan Seacrest (so I’m told)….let the bidding wars begin……
I just wish the nuggets looked lke chicken. Now that would be something!