George Washington nugget sells for $8000
A McDonald's Chicken McNugget has fetched a whopping $8000 in an online auction for its uncanny resemblance to former US president George Washington.
Nebraska woman Rebekah Speigh bought the nugget three years ago, and was about to toss it in the trash before she noticed its likeness to the US Founding Father.
Speigh says she was treating her kids to '99 cent McNugget Tuesday' and play time at their local McDonald's when she made the presidential purchase.
"I decided to take it home and show my husband this hysterical find. We shared a moment of laughter as we joked about putting it on eBay. Then back in the freezer it went," she told The Sioux City Journal.
Speigh put her curious culinary find on eBay too, but the auction was pulled down a month ago for violating rules regulating expired food.
However, the listing was later reinstated after the online giant learnt that the nugget was being sold for charity.
Rebekah Speight says she sold the morsel of meat in a bid to raise $15,000 for a summer church camp.
