I'm not making this up - Illinois shaped corn flake for sale

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kayrharris · #1 Post by **kayrharris** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:28 pm

Sounds a little flaky, but someone has offered more than $50 on eBay for a piece of breakfast cereal that is touted as a lookalike to the state of Illinois.

Two sisters listed "The Great Illinois Corn Flake" on the online auction site, promising it has undergone no alterations.

Emily McIntire, a 15-year-old sophomore in high school from Chesapeake, Va., said she was grabbing fistfuls of cereal on her way to class when she found the flake.

"It was almost to my mouth, it didn't look like Illinois at first because it was held the wrong way," said McIntire, but then she noticed the resemblance and said, "Oh my goodness, it's Illinois."

Her 23-year-old sister, Melissa, said their parents suggested selling it for fun. They're offering free shipping to Illinois.

"At the moment it's residing in a fine jewelry box with a lot of cotton wrapped around it to keep it safe," said Melissa McIntire.

The McIntire sisters say they've decided to use the proceeds from the eBay sale to buy more boxes of Frosted Flakes.

"We've got to replace the one we've already sold," Melissa McIntire said. "We like cereal."

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On the Net:

The Great Illinois Corn Flake on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/yoa723

The link to eBay says it's been removed or no longer available. Hmmm..
do they have standards now?

minimetoo26 · #2 Post by **minimetoo26** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:44 am

Front-page news here--the girls are local!

I see a very vague resemblance to Illinois, but not enough to pay $6500 like one unverified bidder...

#3 Post by **littlebeast13** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:47 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Front-page news here--the girls are local!

I see a very vague resemblance to Illinois, but not enough to pay $6500 like one unverified bidder...

The story on the news last night was that the bid had reached 6 figures.....

I find that hard to believe, but if there are idiots who will pay for that, I feel like putting the label I peeled off a case of cat food that came in a couple nights ago on eBay to see what it would fetch. It stated the cat food in that case would expire on February 29, 2011.....

lb13

gsabc · #4 Post by **gsabc** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:47 am

If someone finds one that looks like Mohammed, will the Islamists attack the cereal company? Just thinkin' ...

This is just another indication that some people have more money than brains.

MarleysGh0st · #5 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:54 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:Front-page news here--the girls are local!

I see a very vague resemblance to Illinois, but not enough to pay $6500 like one unverified bidder...

The story on the news last night was that the bid had reached 6 figures.....

I find that hard to believe, but if there are idiots who will pay for that,

I think it's just a little bit more likely that the person who placed that bid doesn't actually have that kind of money.

NellyLunatic1980 · #6 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:56 am

The brown marks on my pancake look kinda sorta like J.J. Cale. Think I can get ten bucks for it?

JJ Cale · #7 Post by **JJ Cale** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:58 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:The brown marks on my pancake look kinda sorta like J.J. Cale. Think I can get ten bucks for it?

You might want to cash in on that before fanny's LS run is over, because I'm not sure how long my popularity is going to last. I'm already booking myself for county fairs throughout the lower plains.....

TheConfessor · #8 Post by **TheConfessor** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:14 am

There was a short article about the "Illinois Corn Flake" in the Austin newspaper, with a local connection and a trivia connection and a "bored" connection. The flake was bought on eBay by some Austin guy who owns a trivia website called triviamania.com, which I'd never heard of. I poked around the site a little and saw that mrkelley23 is one of their $500 winners. I'm not sure if he told us that, but congratulations to him.

To me, the big disappointment is that the cornflake looks about as much like Illinois as I look like Brad Pitt. Sure, there's a slight resemblance to the extent that they both look kind of like an amoeba, but I'm more impressed with the size of the flake than the shape. See for yourself:
http://www.yumsugar.com/1137213

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #9 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:18 am

We tried to buy the Oregon cornflake. It was listed for $1.25. Our bid of $5.00 was not enough to get the cornflake.

The shipping is $9.25.

silvercamaro · #10 Post by **silvercamaro** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:25 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:We tried to buy the Oregon cornflake. It was listed for $1.25. Our bid of $5.00 was not enough to get the cornflake.

The shipping is $9.25.

I wish I'd known you were a State Cereal collector. I just finished a bowl of Raisin Bran that included all the islands of Hawaii, plus the American Virgin Islands. I would have cut you a deal.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #11 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:28 am

silvercamaro wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:We tried to buy the Oregon cornflake. It was listed for $1.25. Our bid of $5.00 was not enough to get the cornflake.

The shipping is $9.25.
I wish I'd known you were a State Cereal collector. I just finished a bowl of Raisin Bran that included all the islands of Hawaii, plus the American Virgin Islands. I would have cut you a deal.

I promised the girls that they can go through our cereal tomorrow and look for stuff to sell on eBay.

I told them that they can probably make a lot of money if they find a Britney Spears cornflake.

I told them that they can keep all of their profits, even though I paid for the box of cereal. The search will keep them busy for a while.

TheConfessor · #12 Post by **TheConfessor** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:31 am

I found a Wyoming Wheat Chex and a Colorado Life flake.

mrkelley23 · #13 Post by **mrkelley23** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:32 am

TheConfessor wrote:There was a short article about the "Illinois Corn Flake" in the Austin newspaper, with a local connection and a trivia connection and a "bored" connection. The flake was bought on eBay by some Austin guy who owns a trivia website called triviamania.com, which I'd never heard of. I poked around the site a little and saw that mrkelley23 is one of their $500 winners. I'm not sure if he told us that, but congratulations to him.

To me, the big disappointment is that the cornflake looks about as much like Illinois as I look like Brad Pitt. Sure, there's a slight resemblance to the extent that they both look kind of like an amoeba, but I'm more impressed with the size of the flake than the shape. See for yourself:
http://www.yumsugar.com/1137213

I did not connect those two, for some reason. I did post about it, under the heading "Thank you BobJuch" since it was he who posted the original pointer to the triviamania site. Apparently Ken Jennings had been promoing it on his blog.

viewtopic.php?t=3180&highlight=bobjuch

I agree that that flake bore little resemblance to Illinois.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #14 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:56 am

TheConfessor wrote:I found a Wyoming Wheat Chex and a Colorado Life flake.

Are you going to put them on eBay?

Bob Juch · #15 Post by **Bob Juch** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:49 pm

Illinois-shaped flake to join traveling show

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?secti ... id=6044967

Beebs52 · #16 Post by **Beebs52** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:24 pm

I have a Merv the Cat hairball that resembles the Leeward Islands. Would I have to sell it as a set?

silvercamaro · #17 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:28 pm

Beebs52 wrote:I have a Merv the Cat hairball that resembles the Leeward Islands. Would I have to sell it as a set?

Let him chew on a ballpoint pen, in hopes that he'll swallow enough to hack up a plasticky bit that resembles a three-masted schooner (to sail among the islands.) Then you'll really have something worthwhile!

Beebs52 · #18 Post by **Beebs52** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:36 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:I have a Merv the Cat hairball that resembles the Leeward Islands. Would I have to sell it as a set?
Let him chew on a ballpoint pen, in hopes that he'll swallow enough to hack up a plasticky bit that resembles a three-masted schooner (to sail among the islands.) Then you'll really have something worthwhile!

A veritable diorama I tells ya!

ToLiveIsToFly · #19 Post by **ToLiveIsToFly** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:57 pm

I've studiously avoided paying any attention to this here.

Once when I was in Carbondale (the one and only time that happened), I went to Walgreens. I saw a T-shirt on the rack that said "Illinois" on the front, and had a silhouette of the state shape.

Except it was a silhouette of Indiana. At the checkout counter I discovered I didn't have my wallet. I asked them to hold onto it, booked back to the hotel and back to Walgreen's, and by the time I got back they were no longer selling them. I never got an explanation, but I've always regretted not having that shirt.