One of the baked treats at the Olympic Village dining hall has earned itself a bit of a cult following among the athletes on social media — but several of Team USA's athletes say the chocolate muffin is just 'fine.'
The Olympic Village is serving 2,000 of its viral chocolate muffins a day — but what do Team USA athletes really think?Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She have been working at PEOPLE for seven years. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, Us Weekly and Entertainment Weekly.about the treat on July 25, the day before the opening ceremony. It exploded from there, with Christiansen even being dubbed the"muffin man.
Laughs Gemmell, "I think if you gave it to like a medieval peasant, I think they might like, explode. But it's definitely a great, like, once you're done racing, little treat.""So my experience the first day was I saw the muffins. It was breakfast, I was like, 'Oh, a muffin. It's not the healthiest but it's not so bad,' " Corrigan tells PEOPLE. "And then I opened it up and it's more of a molten lava cake-slash-muffin.
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