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Team Poland's Pierogi Is the Unlikely and Unofficial Mascot at the Milan Cortina Olympics
Polish athletes frequently displayed pierogi plushies called pieroguszki, causing a Brooklyn restaurant to sell out after thousands of orders, co-owner Radek Kucharski said.
- During the Milan Cortina Olympics, a dumpling plush became an unlikely, unofficial mascot as Team Poland repeatedly displayed the pieroguszki during events.
- Seen often in the figure skating's Kiss and Cry zone, Poland's athletes call the plush `pieroguszki`, NBC Olympics reports it as `little pierogi`.
- A restaurant in Brooklyn called Pierozek, co-owned by Radek Kucharski, said they `literally sold out overnight` after Olympics viewers' requests surged.
- Despite official mascots Tina and Milo, media coverage suggested the pierogi plush may have 'stolen the show' and commentators joked about it being next time's mascot.
- The surge among viewers was amplified as figure skater held and smiled with the plush, boosting its popularity and sparking wider conversation.
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Unofficial Olympic Mascots: From Kapa to Fatso the Wombat (and a Pierogi Plush)
Before there were official olympic sanctioned mascots for every olympic games, there were unofficial mascots. Sometimes they were already the mascot of an existing sporting event, or sometimes they were just a piece of merchandise that took on a life of its own, and sometimes they were a smirking Wombat with an impossibly fat ass and some really cool tennis shoes. Source
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