Very cheesy day!

Apparently this blog is one of the web's noteworthy sources of information regarding the there-and-gone-and-back-again grilled cheese sandwich bearing the "miraculous" image of the Virgin Mary. Today I was swamped with 36 separate visitors seeking more information about this most holy of relics. (Go ahead and laugh, but for a small-time blog, I count 36 visits in one day on one topic a veritable deluge!)

The latest in the saga, according to the Sidney Herald:

Owner Diana Duyser, 52, of Hollywood, Florida, 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 woman'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 Mary 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.

The divine sandwich has sparked a cottage industry of imitators on eBay, along with a slew of "clever" merchants adding the words "mary," "virgin," "cheese" and "grilled" to their ads to drive up the visibility of their auctions.