US Ambassador oversaw 14 pizza packages due to Olympics results

The ambassador received one of the pizzas preparing to be shipped across the Atlantic as a gift from the Norwegian State TV and Radio Company for successfully passing the test of knowledge of the Norwegian realities.

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US Ambassador to Norway Kenneth Breithwaite owed 14 packages of pizza to Norwegian diplomats, losing a sports bet. The retired rear admiral, appointed by the Senate to a new position only two months ago, had the imprudence to argue with his Norwegian counterpart in Washington Kore Osom about whose team will win more medals at the Olympic Games in Phenchhane, writes TASS.

In South Korea, the Norwegians, contrary to their own expectations, broke a historical record, winning 39 medals - more than any other national team in the history of the Winter Olympics, and became winners in the unofficial medal standings. The US team, which was predicted to win 36 medals, on the contrary, performed noticeably weaker than the Americans wanted, leaving Pyeongchang with 23 awards (fourth place in the medal table). As a result, 14 frozen pepperoni pizzas will be donated to the Norwegian Embassy in the United States - one for each gold medal won by Norwegian athletes.

The ambassador received one of the pizzas preparing to be shipped across the Atlantic as a gift from the Norwegian State TV and Radio Company (NRK) for successfully passing the test of knowledge of the Norwegian realities.

“This is the beauty of the situation when you make two bets on pizza at the same time,” commented the situation in Twitter the US Embassy in Oslo, adding that they will arrange for Norwegian-made pizza to be delivered to the US so that diplomats from the Land of the Fjords can enjoy “a taste of the homeland.”

Frozen pizza, popular in Norway, of the local brand "Grandiosa", which can be found in the freezer of any grocery store in the Scandinavian kingdom, will fly to Washington. Despite the fact that Grandiosa, sold in Norway since 1980, is dearly loved by several generations of Norwegians who grew up on it, true connoisseurs of the Italian dish will not be delighted with this product. Braithwaite himself, who tried the Grandiosa under the gun of an NRK cameraman, said that “for a frozen pizza, the taste is simply excellent,” although he swallowed the bitten piece with visible difficulty.

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