WINTER OLYMPICS 2018 : 15,000 EGGS DELIVERED TO NORWEGIAN OLYMPIC TEAM
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| 15,000 Eggs Delivered To Norwegian Olympic Team |
Needing some eggs to feed their athletes while in Pyeongchang, South
Korea, the chefs told Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper that they’d turned to the
online translation tool to help them draft an order for a local grocery store.
They’d intended to order 1,500 eggs, the chefs said, to make omelets,
fried eggs and other dishes for their team of over 100 athletes. But when a
whopping 15,000 eggs were delivered to their kitchen, they realized their
translation had been in error.
OL-leiren bestilte 1500 egg gjennom å oversette via Google Translate. Men det slo feil. 15.000 ble levert på døra. Vi ønsker lykke til og håper at de norske gullhåpene er glade – veldig glade – i egg: 😁 pic.twitter.com/qaWVpq1Xgy— Trønder-Avisa (@tronderavisa) February 3, 2018
“There was literally no end to the delivery. Absolutely unbelievable,”
chef Ståle Johansen told Afterposten, according to an NBC News translation.
Johansen said they
fortunately were able to return the extra 13,500 eggs to the store but said the
chefs will still be whipping up plenty of egg dishes for the Norwegian
competitors. He added that his culinary team will be preparing food “almost 24
hours a day” to keep their athletes well-nourished.
Norway has the
highest all-time Winter Olympics medal count, with 329 medals amassed since the
first Winter Games in 1924. The Scandinavian nation is expected to yet again be
one of the top countries to beat at this year’s games.
Cooking for Olympic
athletes is no small feat, as Megan Chacosky, a chef for the U.S. Winter
Olympics team, explained to Mic.com in an interview last month. “I often joke
that it’s like making Thanksgiving dinner twice a day,” said Chacosky, who will
reportedly help prepare about 3,000 meals for the American team while it’s in
Pyeonchang.
Chacosky told ABC
News that most athletes at the Games, which kick off this Friday, will be
consuming 3,000 to 4,000 calories per day.
“The amount of
travel these athletes do, in addition to their training, they’re putting their
bodies to the max,” she said. “We try to get lots of fresh produce to get
vitamins and minerals to help keep them healthy.”
Source : HuffPost
Source : HuffPost
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