Does the Price Include Fries, a Drink, and a Toy?

Nick Gillespie | November 23, 2004

The saga of the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese is over.

The miraculous final bid for the decade-old potentially divinely inspired sandwich? $28,000 from Goldenpalace.com:

"It's a part of pop culture that's immediately and widely recognizable," spokesman Monty Kerr told The Miami Herald. "We knew right away we wanted to have it."

Whole thing here. I can only imagine what a pre-conversion Saul pork riblet would fetch.

On the one hand, I suppose this is a story all about Reason's ethos of "Free Minds and Free Markets." On the other hand, this may be one of the reasons why the terrorists hate us. And on the third hand, this may be precisely the sort of freedom that we're fighting for. And on the fourth hand...