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Entries from March 2008

Clever Copycats Try to Cash in on “The Great Illinois Corn Flake”

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Will the Real “Great Illinois Corn Flake” Please Stand Up?
The latest $200,444 bid for the giant Illinois shaped corn flake being offered for sale on Ebay has inspired some impostors. There are dozens of “Great Illinois Cornflake” lookalikes and related items now being offered for sale on Ebay. You can check it out by clicking on […]

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Tags: Corn Flake Watch · In the News · Just For Fun

Great Illinois Corn Flake Bid Surpasses $200,000.00

March 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Well…there now appears to be a buyer willing to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars for that giant Illinois shaped corn flake on Ebay found by a Virginia girl in her box of Kellog’s Frosted Flakes. Two nights ago, there were ten bidders and the leader was at $56.00. Today, there are 31 […]

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Tags: Corn Flake Watch · In the News · Just For Fun

Bids on the Rise and Time Running Out in Sale of “The Great Illinois Corn Flake”

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Food prices may be escalating, but this one takes the cake and proves that there’s truly a buyer for everything.
There are now TEN bidders competing to purchase a giant Illinois-shaped corn flake being sold on Ebay by a 15-year-old Virginia girl. The winning bid tonight is a whopping $56.00!
The seller says she discovered “The Great […]

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Tags: Corn Flake Watch · In the News · Just For Fun

Top 10 Ways I Convinced My Husband to Move to the Suburbs

March 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I want to take a quick second to apologize for the recent absence of new blog posts here on BurbFeeder.com. I have achieved something monumental in the past couple of weeks that was several years in the making.
To start, let’s go back to February 2nd of 2005. It was a frigid, snowy Chicago Winter night. […]

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