The intense passion that Barack Obama can inspire in his supporters is well-known. But sometimes this passion can border on the fanatical. Obama ate breakfast at a diner in Pennsylvania on Monday, and some enterprising fellow snatched the half-eaten breakfast and put them up for sale on Ebay:
A seller named "dixpea" placed what is purported to be Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's half-eaten breakfast from his Monday visit to the Gilder Diner in Scranton, Pennsylvania up for auction on eBay this week, with a suggested bid of over $10,000:
"This is Barak (sic) Hussein Obama's breakfast," the seller wrote, "winner gets his used diner plate with his used silverware and an uneaten portion of his waffle and sausage link."
A note from the seller on ebay explained a waitress at the diner wrapped Obama's uneaten breakfast with plastic wrap after he left the diner and gave it to "a loyal customer."
"This is 100% authentic," the seller writes. "His DNA is on the silverware."
Apparently this has sparked a gold rush on the site of people selling commemorative badges and oil paintings, among other things, of the half-eaten breakfast:
The auction of Obama's leftover waffle and sausage was pulled from eBay, which prohibits the sale of unpreserved food, but not before it reached $US20,100 ($21,181) and spawned waffle-inspired paraphernalia.
Badges and even an oil painting depicting the leftovers, complete with plate and cutlery, are now for sale on the site. The painting had this morning attracted eight bids and was selling for $US10.75.
"The recent Ebay auction of Barack Obama's Waffle may be no more, but it lives on here as a miniature oil painting," the item description reads.
"Created from the actual recent photo of Mr. Obama's half-eaten breakfast, this one-of-a-kind piece of art is not a reproduction but an artistic interpretation of the original. I call it 'Memories of Barack Obama's Breakfast'."
Check out a painting of Obama's half-eaten breakfast for sale on Ebay.