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Look! Madonna and Child Potato

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Just in time for Christmas, a Madonna and Child Potato on eBay. No, this wasn't forwarded to me by an email-forward-happy friend. It came from a relation (I won't give away more than that, but it is a blood relation) and she is the person who encountered this potato at the market and ended up being convinced by a friend to put the tuber up on eBay.

 
 

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The seller will donate proceeds to the food-related charity of your choice so let's get this thing sold to someone in the Kitchn family. Ready, set, bid...

Do you have any miraculous or spiritual food stories? Let us know.

• Bid on the Miraculous Madonna and Child Potato by December 17, 8:45am PST.

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Winter, Holidays - Christmas, Silly

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Comments (13)

I don't see anything in the eBay listing there about a charitable donation.

posted by srtussing on December 15th 2008 at 2:41pm
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People should not exploit food like that, it's wrong! :(

posted by atomicranch79 on December 15th 2008 at 2:53pm
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What are the possibilities of getting the same scene on a tortilla?

posted by Aldyth on December 15th 2008 at 3:02pm
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It's a potato w/a dent in it - get over it.

posted by leonad on December 15th 2008 at 3:32pm
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i don't see it.

posted by mh330 on December 15th 2008 at 3:36pm
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I'm with leonad. It's a very tenuous comparison. Those two lumps could be anything. But more likely, it's just two lumps.

posted by wunami on December 15th 2008 at 3:45pm
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srtussing,
It was a post-posting on eBay decision to do the donation. I don't know, can you edit an eBay listing after posting it? Anyway, if you win, you get to drive the boat on that one.

posted by Sara Kate on December 15th 2008 at 4:15pm
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i think i have the real one: http://fotola.com/berylium/neene/document-neene48df0aba054ab.html
lol
and at this point they've both grown a little "hair"

posted by neene on December 15th 2008 at 5:31pm
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I'm pretty sure they can be edited to include that, and it'd probably get a lot more bidding activity that way! (Alas, I am right now in "let's hope I can pay rent next month" mode and I'm pretty sure even with a charitable element my fiance would shoot me if I bought a misshapen potato on eBay.)

posted by srtussing on December 15th 2008 at 6:17pm
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We each see what we want. Add some ears and this looks like the jowls of a Disapproving Rabbit.

posted by AMLitt on December 15th 2008 at 10:49pm
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manatee and child.

posted by kristykreem on December 17th 2008 at 1:54pm
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It's not the seeing that people differ on. Theoretically, we are seeing the same thing. It's the interpreting that becomes different. I mean...if you try hard enough, you can interpret anything you see as anything you want.

posted by wunami on December 17th 2008 at 8:39pm
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I see a manatee.

posted by Andy M. on December 21st 2008 at 2:44am
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