Drunken Leslie McDonagh, 53, said he had a “severe allergy” and demanded police attend.
Officers found him asking the diner’s manager outside for a fight and told him to leave, a court heard.
The insurance worker — on his way to meet his wife to mark their wedding anniversary — flew into a rage, fell down and tried to grab one cop by the leg as they tried to pick him up.
He was held after spitting in an officer’s face while being dragged out last December in Manchester.
City magistrates heard McDonagh, of Atherton, “wasn’t happy” at the burger onions. He was given a 12-month community order after admitting assault.
Claire Parrot, defending, said it “wasn’t just an argument about the order being wrong” as her client has “severe allergies”.
But she said he “now realises that this was not a police matter” and although his mcemory “isn’t complete” he is “quite clearly utterly embarrassed and ashamed”.
McDonagh's conviction comes after the Metropolitan Police said emergency call handlers fielded 21,733 unnecessary 999 calls between January 1 and November 30 last year.
One called to say they were outraged that KFC had run out of chicken while others moaned about breakfasts not being served quickly enough and a bus driver whistling at the wheel of his vehicle.
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