PodcastWax sculpture of Cristiano Ronaldo eating kuymak dish in northern Turkey goes viral
A hotel and tourism manager in Turkey’s northern Trabzon province had put a wax sculpture of Cristiano Ronaldo eating a kuymak dish in his business. The sculpture has gone viral on social media, as the owner invited Ronaldo to eat kuymak.
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A sculpture depicting Portuguese star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo eating kuymak dish in the Black Sea province of Trabzon in Turkey has gone viral, the Demirören News Agency reported.
Mehmet İnan, a hotel and tourism manager in the tourism center Uzungöl, put a wax sculpture of the world-famous Ronaldo in his business.
Kuymak is a popular local dish made mainly with corn meal and cheese.
Accordingly, some customers think that the sculpture was real at first sight. After realizing the sculpture, they take a photo with it.
İnan said, “We opened a new place overlooking Uzungol. We thought that this new place should be identified with something different. Of course, people come to Uzungöl from all over the world. Cristiano Ronaldo is the best name at this point; he has many followers on social media. We had such an idea because we thought it would be easier to interact. Uzungöl is also a place identified with kuymak. That's why we wanted to feed him a kuymak. We thought, 'Let it be both local and international and promote our kuymak'.”
“We also get interesting reactions like 'Is this Ronaldo's place?' 'Did Ronaldo have breakfast here?' People don't realize that this is a sculpture when they first see it. Once one of our guests ordered kuymak. We ran out of cheese for kuymak that day. When we told them that we couldn't make kuymak, they reacted by showing us the sculpture and saying, ‘But that man eats it, why don't you give it to us?’.”