Reply #1: This story just drips with irony. It just goes to show that the old saying, "you get what you paid

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for." is not necessarily true. Unless you think that people are willing to pay $25,000 for a dessert that sat cheek by jowl with mouse turds and cockroaches.

What this story really demonstrates is the truth of the saying "There's a sucker born every minute, which actually was said by a guy named David Hannum, not P.T. Barnum. Story here:

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html