The Pastry War

I'm dying for a pastry...

There have been wars that have started because of a pig or a dog but these were stepping stones to an already escalating conflict. The Pastry War appears to have started and ended due to a pastry shop's destruction. To (briefly) summarize: in 1838 a French pastry chef living in Mexico complained to King Louis-Phillippe that his pastry shop had been ravaged during Mexican civil unrest some ten years earlier. Outraged, the King demanded 600,000 pesos for their citizen. Since that was a enormous amount of money, Mexico refused and it quickly escalated to war between the two countries. On March 9, 1839, the brief war ended when England convinced Mexico to pay the money and the French withdrew.