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Bite-Size Chicken McNugget Sells For $8,100 on eBay

  • Spence Cooper
  • March 7, 2012

According to several news reports, a Nebraska woman has sold a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget shaped in the form of a profile of George Washington for $8,100 on eBay. [see photo]

According to the Desmoines Register, Rebekah Speight of Dakota City, Neb., sold the McNugget to raise money to send 50 children to summer church camp in Sioux City.

Speight says the McNugget almost became a snack during a visit to a Sioux City McDonald’s three years ago. Her children didn’t eat the chicken and she was about to toss it when she spotted Washington’s resemblance.

Instead, she stashed the McNugget in her freezer.

Speight said she noticed it while cleaning up the uneaten portion of her kids’ meals after they hit the play area at the McDonald’s at 729 Hamilton Blvd. in Sioux City.

Bite-Size Chicken McNugget Sells For ,100 on eBaySpeight laughed when asked if there’s a lesson there for parents. “Sometimes it’s OK if children don’t finish,” she said.

Speight told The Sioux City Journal that once she received payment she would ship the nugget off to its new owner — packed in dry ice to preserve it.

The Sioux City Journal notes the nugget has been in Speight’s freezer for about three years.

Speight said she’s still amazed at the international media attention the frozen piece of meat attracted.

“There are stories from Australia, the United Kingdom, Pakistan — just all over,” Speight said.

eBay had temporarily taken down the auction last month because it violated rules regulating expired food, but Speight received an email later saying the site was “willing to make exceptions to help your cause”

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