Here’s an odd one for the world’s most expensive foods list:
Back in 2005, a couple named Mike and Liz started a blog detailing their experience after they had allegedly found a french fry at McDonalds that featured a near-perfect profile of U.S. sixteenth President Abraham Lincoln, as seen on the penny coin.
The fry, dubbed the “Lincoln Fry”, was featured in a television commercial that ran in the U.S. during Super Bowl XXXIX alongside the complementary blog, designed to appear as an amateur production.
In fact, the Lincoln Fry turned out to be nothing more than a viral marketing campaign orchestrated by McDonalds. The prop fry was actually moulded from polyurethane plastic and was about four inches (10cm) long.
Still, despite its inauthenticity, the Lincoln Fry was eventually purchased by online casino GoldenPalace.com, who paid a massive $75,100 in an online auction for the prop and planned to take it on a nationwide tour along with the “Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich” which the company bought on eBay for $28,000.
McDonalds sold the Lincoln Fry in a Yahoo! auction to raise proceeds for the benefit of Ronald McDonald House charities.
“With the sandwich already in our collection, and our corporate philosophy of helping those in need, buying the Lincoln Fry was a given. This is a great day for marketing and a great day for Abe Lincoln,” GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe said in a statement.
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