Orange with 6Medias, published on Saturday January 07, 2023 at 6:47 p.m.
A Lyon pastry shop offers a diamond worth 1,000 euros to the customer who will find a bean in the shape of a four-leaf clover among more than 8,000 cakes, announces BFM Lyon.
It’s an epiphany remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In Lyon, a pastry shop does not hide a golden ticket, but a bean in the shape of a four-leaf clover in one of its pancakes.
The customer who falls on this bean will receive a diamond estimated at 1,000 euros, announces BFM Lyon.
However, you will have to play luck to find this bean. The Maison-Flochon pastry shop, located in the 9th arrondissement of the Rhone town, sells nearly 700 galettes a day in January. In total, nearly 8,000 patties can house the precious bean. A gift made to customers thanks to the partnership established with a jeweler from Lyon. “They wanted to give us a diamond that we put in our cake. It’s not the diamond. It’s a bean with a four-leaf clover marked ‘won’”, explains Guillaume Flochon, pastry chef. Despite the low chances of success, customers are happy with this initiative, as evidenced by one of them who talks regarding “nice surprise for us” and profit for the local trade.
Diamonds in the pancakes
If this clover-shaped bean is a way to recover the precious stone from the pastry shop, some pastry chefs hide the nest egg directly in the cake. In Béziers, a craftsman had hidden two diamonds in his cakes in order to attract more customers, reports 20 Minutes. Another initiative, 18 bakeries, with the help of the Comptoir national de l’Or, are offering a draw to win a gold coin worth 340 euros. To hope to win the coin equivalent to 20 gold francs, you obviously have to buy a cake, but also register for the draw and wait for the outcome of the latter. Between diamonds and gold coins, cake lovers have enough to make this month of January profitable and start the year 2023 well.
