So I wonder if there is some translation problem also. This is bizarre. Since when is celery in everything? Celery is in hardly anything. Celery is high in sodium and very low in calories. Luckily there was no celery in the Bicky burger or whatever or he might have died of starvation.
First of all, what? Celery is a vegetable and no vegetable that I know of is high in sodium. Cyclists need a lot of sodium anyway, but I don't think Naesen is sitting there weighing the macros and micros of celery as an individual ingredient. He's just eating Belgian stews, where celery is common. He actually
is lucky the burger didn't have celery, because it's not unheard of to mix it into ground beef patties. There are a lot of ingredients in the food you eat that you're not aware of until you know someone with a strong allergic reaction to them, so either you are Belgian and clueless (as most people are), or you aren't from Belgium and your diet is very different from a Belgian's.
I dug up the original article:
https://archive.md/AbE6B#selection-2619.0-2619.680
It does have a lot more pertinent details, and what I'm gathering is that "celery" is used to cover at least leeks and possibly also onions?
“Celery is in *** everything. On Sunday after Roubaix we ate fries. I looked it up: the only 'meat' I could order in the chip shop was a Bicky Burger, everything else contains celery. So that's what I learned this week. At the butcher's: whatever you buy with minced meat, it contains celery. That herb is used everywhere. In sauces: celery. In spaghetti spices: celery. In chicken spices: celery. In stock cubes: celery. Ketchup: celery. Recently there was fresh basil in a package of Hello Fresh: it may contain traces of celery, it said. In pure basil! Because it is washed in the same water as their celery. My mother-in-law's spaghetti: tasty, but it makes me very sick.”
There needs to be a rule against posting "cycling up to date" articles on this forum.