NORWAY’S Winter Olympic team were far from egg-static to see 15,000 eggs arrive to their training camp.
The chefs attempted to use a free translation service to order the groceries for their 109 hungry athletes.
Norway’s order of 1,500 evidently got lost in translation as the team tried to order supplies from a local supermarket.
South Korea has a complex counting system, and changing just one syllable would mean the difference between 1,500 and 15,000.
But chef Stale Johansen, who is cooking at the Olympics for the eighth time, was able to return the 13,5000 unwanted eggs.
He told news agency NTB: “We received half a truckload of eggs.
“Fortunately we were able to return most of it.
“But we were quite surprised when they came carrying the eggs.
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“There was just no end to it. Incredible.”
And he explained the difficulties when trying to cater for 109 athletes during the competition.
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He said: “The biggest challenge is that we will be serving food almost round the clock.
“We have both skiers and biathlon here, so there will be food from half past seven in the morning and until almost two am at night. I know what they like and what they don’t like”.
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