Posted on 02/11/2018 6:46:06 AM PST by davikkm
Like most teams competing at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, the Norwegian Olympic team will try to win more medals and break more records, than any other country. However, for a moment, unlike the Olympic squads of other countries, the Norwegians also had the ability to construct the world’s largest omelette.
The Scandinavians found themselves in that unique position, thanks to an ordering error involving their team chefs and a South Korean grocer. The chefs told the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, that they went to Google translate to place an order 1,500 eggs, to help feed their athletes.
However, when the monstrous delivery of 15,000 eggs arrived, it became clear that something had gotten lost in translation.
“There was literally no end to the delivery. Absolutely unbelievable,” chef Ståle Johansen told Afterposten.
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The order was eggs-aggerated.
They can put those eggs in their share of the 110,000 condoms ordered for the athletes.
I dont see a problem.
Instead of 3 eggs for breakfast you get 30!
Hopefully that comes with bacon.
Wouldn’t that make the eggs rubbery?
Making it a quick gift across the border to North Korea could make a difference for a few hundred families this month.
I experienced a similar error in 1986. My boat was about to go on a missile patrol and the cooks made our meat order. Someone added an extra zero to the Breaded Veal Cutlets, resulting in 10x the order. Some bean-counting person in Supply on the tender caught the error and figured that we must really like veal, but there no way we needed all that meat...
So they cut EVERYTHING else by a factor of 10!
This made the math add up and they loaded our stores.
75 days underwater, eating breaded veal every day. Even after 30 years, I really can’t stand the sight of any breaded meat.
The yolks on google.
someone has egg on their face.
As long as they didn’t put them all in one basket...
Eggactly!
The North Koreans stand by and watch in stunned awe.
I had a similar experience, but with canned juice, canned juice stored everywhere even in your rack. Fortunately, or unfortunately (depends if you’re glass half full or glass half empty) the evaporator broke. 3x the normal load out of canned juice was rather serendipitous.
It would, but the families that needed it wouldn’t get it.
Something I wrote many years ago to the tune of the Beatles’ song “Yesterday”.
Scrambled eggs
You’re not half the yolk you used to be
There’s an omelet hanging over me
Oh I am craving scrambled eggs
Sunny side
Softly poached, or even lightly fried
All have yellow runny yokes inside
So I long for scrambled eggs
Why you
Turned hard boiled
I don’t know
I cannot say
Had the flame too high
Now I long for scrambled eeegggeesss
Scrambled eggs
There’re be no French Toast for me
No eggs Benedict you see
For I am craving scrambled eggs
Why you
had to curdle
I don’t know
I cannot say
Had the milk too hot
Now I long for scrambled eeegggeesss
Scrambled eggs
You’re not half the yolk you used to be
A spinach quiche waits for me
But how I long for scrambled eggs
Yummy, yummy, yummy
Scrambled eggs
"We don't just have egg on our face. We have omelet all over our suits."
-PJ
How is a number “lost intranslation”? Was the order given verbally? Or was it a typo error?
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