The shock “star” of the Paris Olympics is probably not a single athlete or athletes.
It might be a chocolate chip muffin, as Fox Information Digital has beforehand reported.
Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen made the candy deal with a viral sensation. Whereas Olympians have been important of the meals on the Olympic Village, the chocolate chip muffin appears to be the exception.
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It began on July 25 with Christiansen’s TikTok video overview of the meals he sampled on the Olympic Village — with a number of viral moments occurring frequently since then.
He praised the chocolate muffin, or “choccy muffin,” describing it as “insane.”
Henrik Christiansen has skilled viral fame after his video reviewing the meals within the Olympic Village took off on TikTok. (Nikola Krstic/Orange Footage/BSR Company/Getty Photographs; iStock)
“11/10,” he mentioned.
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Then got here a number of different movies from Christiansen solely devoted to the chocolate chip muffin.
It is now led to an explosion of chocolate chip muffin content material on social media — from cooks sharing recipes to bakeries seeking to money in on the chocolate chip muffin craze.
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Christiansen, 27, might not have been a family title exterior his native Norway, however the world appears to know him now by his unofficial Olympic nickname: “the Muffin Man.”
Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has now earned the moniker “the Muffin Man” on TikTok after his overview of the chocolate chip muffins on the Olympic Village grew to become a viral sensation. (AP Photograph/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi; iStock)
Olympians from numerous sports activities have sought him out – in addition to the much-praised chocolate chip muffin – on the Olympic Village.
New Zealand swimmer Lewis Clareburt shared a five-second TikTok video of himself standing with Christiansen whereas holding one of many chocolate-chip muffins.
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American swimmers Torri Huske and Abbey Weitzeil shared their very own overview of the muffin on Weitzeil’s TikTok web page.
American swimmers Torri Huske (left) and Abbey Weitzeil (proper) not too long ago reviewed the chocolate chip muffin in a video on Weitzeil’s TikTok web page. (Xavier Laine/Getty Photographs)
Huske raved in regards to the muffin, saying it “tastes just like cake.”
However she gave it a rating of 9 out of 10, noting that it wasn’t heat.
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Weitzeil in contrast it to a chocolate chip muffin from Costco however mentioned the Olympic Village favourite has “more fudginess to it.”
She gave it the identical rating as Huske.
Australian swimmer Brianna Throssell was initially much less enamored by the chocolate chip muffin she sampled in a video posted on her TikTok web page, calling it “average” earlier than being directed to chunk into its gooey middle. She then modified her reply.
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“I think it’s pretty good,” she mentioned.
Different Olympians to have sampled the chocolate chip muffin on social media are Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjostrom and Lina Nielsen, a hurdler for Nice Britain.
