Remember the McDonald's "French fry" shaped like Abraham Lincoln -- the prop for those humorous ads the restaurant chain ran recently? Well, it sold for $75,100 -- and that's no joke. An Internet
casino, GoldenPalace.com, said it had secured the winning bid for the fry -- which is not real but was a prop used in a McDonald's ad -- and plans to take it on a nationwide tour along with the
"Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich" the company bought on eBay last November for $28,000.
Read the whole story at CNN/Money, February 18, 2005 »
