--- title: Winter Olympics 2018: Team Accidentally Orders 15,000 Eggs description: The Norwegian team received 15,000 eggs to feed their Olympic delegation in PyeongChang, although they only meant to get 1,500. canonical: https://time.com/5139405/south-korea-norway-eggs/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-08T17:06:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:26.781Z og:title: This Olympic Team Accidentally Ordered 15,000 Eggs og:description: The Norwegian team received an overwhelming amount of protein in South Korea og:url: https://time.com/5139405/south-korea-norway-eggs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27815e95c3deb09b/698926b7db2987275c25eb1d/eggs-in-crates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: NETHERLANDS-FOOD-EGGS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Olympic Team Accidentally Ordered 15,000 Eggs twitter:description: The Norwegian team received an overwhelming amount of protein in South Korea twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27815e95c3deb09b/698926b7db2987275c25eb1d/eggs-in-crates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Olympic Team Accidentally Ordered 15,000 Eggs Which Is Way More Protein Than They Asked For > Sponsored content. 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The result: instead of getting 1,500 eggs delivered for their team of athletes, they got a shipment of 15,000, as they reported ruefully to news agencies. “We received half a truckload of eggs,” Olympic chef Ståle Johansen [told Norwegian press](https://www.aftenposten.no/100Sport/andreidretter/Norges-OL-kokker-bestilte-feil---mottok-15000-egg-249525b.html). The chef who is cooking for the Norwegian team for the eight time said [noted](http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/winter-olympics/winter-olympics-2018-pyeongchang-norway-eggs-mistake-a8200601.html) that they were “quite surprised when they came carrying the eggs. There was just no end to it. Incredible!” Incredible indeed. In the end, however, the chefs were luckily able to return the excess supply to the grocer, leaving them with their desired amount after all. (Still, plenty of eggs for hungry athletes. Omelettes for days!) While the exact cause of the mixup remains unclear, [some reports](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/norway-olympics-team-orders-15000-eggs-by-mistake-south-korea) note that in South Korea eggs can by bought by multiples of 30 in crates — and misidentifying just one syllable in an order in Korean could have resulted in the exponential error. The 2018 Winter Olympics officially start [with the Opening Ceremony](http://time.com/5124851/winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-2018-time/) on Feb. 9 at 6:00 a.m. EST — and if this snafu is any indication, we’re sure to see many more comical lost-in-translation moments in the weeks to come as the Games get underway. > [](https://twitter.com/ajreid/status/961575055212859392) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5139405/south-korea-norway-eggs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5139405/south-korea-norway-eggs/"},"headline":"This Olympic Team Accidentally Ordered 15,000 Eggs Which Is Way More Protein Than They Asked For","datePublished":"2018-02-08T17:06:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:26.781Z","description":"The Norwegian team received 15,000 eggs to feed their Olympic delegation in PyeongChang, although they only meant to get 1,500.","url":"https://time.com/5139405/south-korea-norway-eggs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27815e95c3deb09b/698926b7db2987275c25eb1d/eggs-in-crates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27815e95c3deb09b/698926b7db2987275c25eb1d/eggs-in-crates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NETHERLANDS-FOOD-EGGS","caption":"NETHERLANDS-FOOD-EGGS","creditText":"VINCENT JANNINK—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5139405/south-korea-norway-eggs/","name":"This Olympic Team Accidentally Ordered 15,000 Eggs Which Is Way More Protein Than They Asked For"}}]}] ```