Mustard Man
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The Mustard Man is an Internet meme that first gained prominence on Somethingawful.com and later on numerous other web-based forums.
The picture became popular in early 2004 and was used in countless Photoshop pictures on the aforementioned websites. Originally the true identity of the man pictured was unknown. Recently the owners of Bloggerheads.com tracked down the man pictured.
His true name is Mike "Nug" Nahrgang, an actor/comedian born and raised in Toronto, Ontario.
The picture was taken during the filming of a Canadian sketch-comedy show called The Endless Grind, on which he had a part. Nug and another actor were having a food fight and Nug grabbed the mustard to use in self-defense.
It is often mistaken that the Gnarkill song "Mustard Man" is about Mike Nahrgang, but was in fact produced well before the Mustard Man Phenomenon, and is in fact about a friend of the band named Rake Yohn, who despises mustard.
[edit] External links
- bloggerheads.com – website that determined Mustard Man's true identity
- Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang at the Internet Movie Database
