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Andrew Zimmern's Response To His Skimpy Blueberry Muffin Is Iconic

Andrew Zimmern looking jovial Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
By Maria Scinto/

Oftentimes we think of food world celebs as preparing all of their own food or, in the case of Andrew Zimmern, subsisting on a diet of delicacies from the remotest corners of the globe. What we're failing to realize, though, is that it takes a lot of work being a famous food personality, and there's a good chance that at times even Zimmern may have to make do with whatever's on offer at a convenience store or airport grab-n-go in order to keep body and soul together.

One recent meal, however, seemed to be a major disappointment, as Zimmern shared with his Twitter followers.

He posted a pic, assuring everyone "this is 100% real and is my actual muffin," and yes, it was very obviously a muffin. What type, though, might have been hard to tell without the caption. The photo showed a very plain muffin cut in half with just a single small dark object down at the bottom of each piece. Zimmern explains that this is actually a blueberry – as he relates, he "cut [the muffin] in half and luckily cleaved the lone berry in two." He did, however, pose the rhetorical question, "it's a blueberry muffin, not a blueberries muffin, for a reason, right?"

Twitter was amused, but sympathetic

blueberry muffin with one blueberry Twitter

Twitter users really felt for Zimmern, as who among us has not been disappointed by our food from time to time? One person shared an anecdote of ordering shrimp fried rice that contained but a single shrimp – well, "shrimp" is the singular as well as the plural form of the word, after all. Others decried the nearly blueberry-free muffin as another example of customers being fleeced by the food industry. (In Zimmern's case, this could be compared to his being bitten by the hand that feeds him.) One person, however, praised the chef for not calling out the muffin maker by name as it's possible that this muffin could have been created by accident.

Top comment, however, goes to someone who compared Zimmern's knifework to a feat right out of Arthurian lore. "I think your coming was foretold," they hailed the Food Network star,  going on to say "I'm reasonably certain cleaving the lone berry in two makes you King." Prophecy notwithstanding, King Andrew's meager muffin did not make a meal fit for a monarch.

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