Police on the case of sweet crepe that turned sour

POLICE were forced to intervene after an apparently savoury crêpe prompted a violent row in Brittany.

It started when two female customers purchased two crêpes with whipped cream from a crêperie in the northwestern region of France.

They ate the traditional French pancakes on the spot, before leaving without a word, French media reported.

However, before long the pair returned to complain that the meal wasn’t to their liking. “The customer told the waitress that she wasn’t happy because one of the crêpes wasn’t sweet enough,” the restaurant manager told the L’obs newspaper.

The waitress offered some sugar to the customer, but was turned away. Later, the women returned asking for one euro in compensation for the allegedly savoury whipped cream, but this time it was the restaurant workers who refused.

The situation then took a turn for the worse. “The women were screaming, they were ready to charge like rioters at a demonstration. It really ruined the evening,” the owner said.

The regional Côtes-d’armor gendarmerie was called, and later took to Facebook to share their own version of the story. “My crêpe isn’t sweet enough!!” reads the Facebook post, which went viral, at least by the standards of the French regional police, attracting hundreds of likes, shares, and comments.

The officers wrote that the “hostile” customers threatened to smash the windows of the restaurant, but “were eventually pushed away by the owner and then the customers came to his rescue, just as the police arrived”.