Lack less than a year until the Olympic Games are held in Paris. The French city will be filled with sports fans and tourists and, surely, many of them will choose to try one of the popular crepes of the city of light. The food is made up of a very thin pancake made of flour, milk and eggs that is usually served rolled with some sweet or salty element inside.
However, people coming to Paris will have to choose very well who buys those crepessince as the local newspaper has revealed Le Parisianthere is Street sellers who carry out their activity incurring “dangerous health practices”as recognized by the city council of the French capital.
Specifically, the Parisian council has admitted that it is aware that some of these street vendors They save the crepe dough in one of the most unhealthy places that can exist: sewers.
The aforementioned media details that the incidents detected in this regard have been located in the stalls found in the park that surrounds the mythical Eiffel Tower. The French police have specified that the places chosen by the sellers to store the liquid crepe mixture are the back of the covers of public roads, sewer holes or manholes.
Other products are also stored in sewers.
Likewise, the French authorities have indicated that beyond the crepes, in these locations are also stored other types of products, such as corn on the cob, drinks or meat.
Those responsible for the Parisian district in which the Eiffel Tower is located have indicated to Le Parisian that “in each intervention, The police seized and destroyed 30 kg of merchandise. During the week of September 11 to 16, they seized 380 bottles of water, 50 of wine, 200 of beer and 90 ears of corn.”
Consequently the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Nicolas Nordmanquealso speaking to the French media, has not hesitated to issue a clear warning to tourists visiting Paris: “We must warn potential consumers, often tourists, of the danger of the products on sale, because It is a real public health problem”.
