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One Rare Flake

This quite clearly is no ordinary, run of the General Mill variety corn flake! Nosiree Bob!

This, my friends, can be considered nothing short of cereal phenomena. The resemblance is uncanny indeed.

(Squint if you must, and feel free to stretch your imagination. See it? Okay, give it some time. Just trust me on this one.)

Box of corn flakes ... $3.99 (prices may vary). State of Illinois rendered à la Kellogg toasted grain ... priceless $1,350.00. So deemed Monty Kerr.

SOLD! To the second biggest Texan idiot. Seriously, folks, you can't make this shit up.
Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350.

"We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "There's a lot of relief involved."
True story.

Auction winner Monty (which disturbingly points toward other like-minded bandwidth-wasting short bus riders), runs a trivia website with the amusingly ironic tagline "Think you've got the brains?"

He plans to add the corn flake to a traveling museum. Coming soon to your town, you won't to miss this one!

Hopefully he'll have better luck this time around. This is not his first flakey investment; previously he had purchased another corn flake billed as the world's largest, but on delivery found that it had fractured en route. I trust he was reimbursed for the shipping and handling.

Anyway, live and learn. Not taking any chances and to avoid another such unfortunate mishap, he plans instead to dispatch someone to Virginia for personal pick-up and delivery. Fingers crossed, everyone.

And be sure to bookmark your favorite local events calendar, not to let pass that much-anticipated traveling museum tour! The Breakfast Anomalies exhibit will no doubt be a crowd-pleaser.

You'll have to excuse me now. I'm heading on over to eBay. After reading about this, I did some investigating of my own in hope of finding cash in the cupboard.

Lo and behold, I happened upon a Frosted Mini-Wheat that I swear to God looks an awful lot like Colorado, snow-capped and everything! Wish me luck!
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  1. Diane J StandifordMarch 23, 2008 at 6:06 AM

    It looks to me like a Native American starting to do something..er...well, you see what you want I suppose. What is it with Ebay and food? Mr. Potato Head is so yesterday, and Matha can make a peach look like Abe Lincoln, if she wants,

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  2. Doug BMarch 23, 2008 at 9:47 AM

    This is a ttue story, no joke. About ten or so years ago I got hungry one day at work and, looking for snack, got a package of zoo crackers out of the vending machine. As I was eating I pulled out two animals (and it has been so long that I have forgotten which two) that were baked together in a position that made them look as if they were copulating. Wish I had kept it. That was before the Ebay craze. Damn it!

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  3. AnonymousMarch 23, 2008 at 10:44 AM

    I feel your pain, Doug. Not so much with the food (I'm too busy shoving it in that I seldom pay attention to appearance) but I could kick myself repeatedly for so many things over the years that I've discarded as worthless that I happen to find the object of bidding wars on the bay! My very first school lunchbox, which I remember well, I've found to be worth several hundred dollars now, and we probably paid about 1 buck at Kmart! If only we could see into the future. Coulda shoulda woulda.

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  4. LouMarch 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM

    I saved a potato chip that has a star in the center. I'll take a pic and post it on my blog. I've had it for about a year.

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