Seattle Woman Calls 911 After Fight Over Sriracha On Pizza

SEATTLE, WA - Sriracha on pizza? It's a divisive issue. Some people think Sriracha on pizza tastes great, but some pizza purists think it's heresy.

A woman solidly in the pro-Sriracha-on-pizza camp got into a fight over the issue at a Capitol Hill pizzeria early Monday morning. The woman was irate after employees at Sizzle Pie apparently refused to give her an "adequate amount of Sriracha sauce."

The woman, age 36, called 911, telling the dispatcher that the employees were yelling at her and calling her names because she asked for more Sriracha.

Things only got worse for the woman, however. When she and her 45-year-old companion stepped outside the restaurant, a 29-year-old man - for unknown reasons - threw a garbage can at them. The receptacle hit the man in the leg.

When Seattle officers arrived, they had a difficult time figuring out what was going on. The woman would not stop talking about the lack of Sriracha at the restaurant, according to police, which slowed down their investigation.

"The woman, officers wrote in their report, 'kept bringing up' the sriracha issue as officers were attempting to investigate the incident. She also 'attempted to divert [the] investigation from the assault to her irritation with the pizza parlor and her treatment' by an employee 'with the tattoos on the face,'" Seattle police described in a blog post.

Unfortunately, Seattle police were unable to settle the Sriracha-on-pizza debate. But, they did take the guy who threw the garbage can to jail for assault.

Photo: In the Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, file photo, Sriracha chili sauce is produced at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, Calif. The Irwindale City Council voted Wednesday May 28, 2014 night to drop a public nuisance declaration and lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, makers of Sriracha hot sauce.

Photo by Nick Ut/Associated Press