Dawlish News

£16K for a sarnie? Not even the swankiest deep-filled mother from Pret or M&S would set you back that much. But then again, your average BLT doesn't have the Virgin Mary's beatific face in it. So there. And when the free market talks and all that... For some reason alien to all right-thinking people, the Times reports that an online casino company has bought a 10-year-old cheese sandwich, for said bumper price, off some clearly-squirrels woman in Fort Lauderdale, USA. She thought the fizzog of Mary was staring back at her from the sandwich, when she went to bite into it a mere decade ago. Meanwhile, GoldenPalace.com (for it is they) have started to cash in on the saintly snack, by flogging Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese T-shirts. So it's all a whopping great publicity stunt, then.
Tomorrow, Terry Waite's beard appears in a spaghetti carbonara, made by a Mrs Williams of Dawlish. eBay awaits.