and here it is!!!
YOUNG Swindon cook Thalia Comus is wondering what to do with a piece of toast bearing a mark that uncannily resembles the Magic Roundabout.
eBay is a possible final destination for the bizarre item, which popped out of the toaster as she prepared a mid-evening snack for her mum, dad and sister at their Rodbourne Cheney home.
Previous peculiar toast sales on the internet auction site have included an American slice allegedly showing the Virgin Mary, which went for $28,000 (about £21,000) in 2006.
And an Essex artist called Lennie Payne (
www.toast2art.co.uk) makes a healthy living by selling works he creates with bread, a knife and a blowlamp.
Perhaps because the Comus family arrived in Swindon from their previous home in Hampshire only last month, Thalia, 15, wasn’t aware of the significance of the freak mark until dad George, 38, a teacher, said it reminded him of a road sign he passed every day.
Recalling the evening, Thalia said: “At first I thought the mark looked like an amoeba or a jellyfish or something like that.
“I was about to butter it with the rest when my dad said the mark on it looked just like the shape on the roadsign before he got to the Magic Roundabout on his way to work every morning.
“Lots of other people have said it’s the Magic Roundabout, too, so I’m keeping the slice in the freezer until I decide what to do with it.”
Funnily enough, none of the seven other slices of toast in the batch made by Thalia had any strange marks whatever, and nor have any made since.
Obvious possible explanations include the effect on the taster of being jolted around in the removal van during the move from Hampshire, but Thalia doubts this.
“Otherwise more than one slice would have been affected, and that hasn’t happened,” she explained.
“Looking out for more Magic Roundabouts in the toast means breakfast will never be the same again, though!”
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