One tourist has explained why not to eat a certain street food in Paris (stock image) (Image: Getty)
A tourist in Paris learned why you shouldn’t get a popular French street food item the hard way.
Mark Roberts, an visiting France’s capital city, was by the Eiffel Tower when he spotted a stand selling crepes. Having realised he hadn’t had one yet during his time in , he decided to get one but this turned out to be a big regret. He is now telling people after his experience.
After indulging in the dessert, he saw the man who served him his crepe walk past him holding plastic bags containing the crepe ingredients. Much to his disgust, he watched the vendor store the bags in the sewer and Mark shared a video on to tell the tale.
In the video he said: “Why did no one warn me not to eat the crepes in Paris before I came to Paris? Because yesterday I ate a crepe in Paris and I almost instantaneously regretted it.”
He explained that “everything was normal at first” and he decided to take a trip to the Eiffel Tower at night because he “heard that it sparkles”. When he got there he was pleased to find out that this was true and while he was there he saw a crepe stand and decided to buy one.
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The American went up to the stand and ordered a Nutella crepe with strawberries and bananas and paid “way too much for it”. The crepe cost 15 Euros but as he was at the Eiffel Tower he could “kind of justify” the price and he found the man making the crepe “super nice and friendly”.
Mark continued: “None the less he gets done making my crepe and he hands it to me and this thing just looks beautiful, I’m ready to eat it. Now I like to sit down when I eat so I needed to find a bench and near the Eiffel Tower it’s super crowded so all the benches were filled so I had to walk a bit to find a bench that I could sit on but eventually I found an empty bench and I started eating my crepe and it was in fact delicious.
“As I’m sitting there having the last bites of my crepe I see the dude that served me the crepe walk right in front of me and he’s holding these clear plastic bags of something but I can’t tell what it is at first but I look a little closer and I realise one of the bags had crepe batter in it and another bag had chopped fruit.
“I’m just thinking that he’s like taking the leftovers from his business that day. Update: It was not. Then I see this dude walk up the path a little bit more and then he looks around to see if anybody’s looking and then he opens a manhole cover and proceeds to put the bag in the sewer and the worst part was before I realised what was happening I had already taken my last bite of the crepe.”
He then looked this up online afterwards and found that street vendors storing their stuff in the sewer is a thing in Paris. Mark’s video has garnered 23.9 million views, 2.3 million likes and 12,000 comments.
The first comment under the video is “sewer crepe was my first thought” and the second is “I heard about sewer crepes a while back lol”. users who saw Mark’s video appeared to already be aware of this as another one claimed: “They specifically say not to buy anything near the Eiffel Tower.”
Some people, however, didn’t know about ‘sewer crepes’ before watching Mark’s video, One user said: “The more I find out about Paris the more traumatised I get.”