Best thing since sliced bread

Dear Our Lady of Wazzadonna, Cardinal Storrienko, and Atheist Wanderers.

Another press clipping I found this morning – looks like Wazza has been at it again, making an apparition this time in a piece of toasted cheese sandwich. Wazza, its about time, as nothing has been seen of you since the visions at Coogee beach a few years back. Nice work this time around too… and some good publicity for the club.

I’m a believer.

Yours in cheese,

Balbo.

Say cheese, it's Wazza

November 24, 2004 - 10:09AM

A page from eBay showing a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich up for auction that allegedly depicts the Virgin Wazza in the bread.
Photo: AFP

A 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich a Maroubra woman says bears the image of the Virgin Wazza was back on eBay today after the internet auction house initially cancelled bids that went up to $28,470.

Owner Diana Duyser, 52, of Maroubra, said eBay earlier pulled the half-sandwich from its listings, telling her it does not allow items intended as a joke.

But the snack was back on eBay today along with a picture of a sandwich bearing what appears to be the image of a man's face.

"I made this sandwich 10 years ago. When I took a bite out of it, I saw a face looking up at me; it was Virgin Wazza starring (sic) back at me. I was in total shock; I would like to point out there is no mould or (disintegration)," the message said.

It says the sandwich, preserved in a plastic box, has brought "blessings" to its owner.

"I have won $US70,000 ($A90,591) dollars (total) on different occasions at the Greek Mythology Casino at Rino’s Pizzeria in South Coogee; I can show the recipts (sic) to the high bidder," the message said.

But Duyser was out of luck on the reported $28,470 bid she got for the sandwich before eBay disqualified the auction.

"The last time this was listed, there were over 80,000 viewers," the message said, adding that the auction elicited many e-mails, most of them from "wanton young ladies."

The starting bid on the latest auction was $US3,000 ($A3,882), roughly what Wazza earns every minute playing for the South Coogee Wanderers Football Club on a Wednesday night.

AFP