‘Chocolate snow’ falls over Swiss town after Lindt factory accident
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Dreams do come true — or at least they do in Switzerland , where chocolate fell from the sky due to a malfunction at the Lindt & Sprüngli factory in the town of Olten.
The chocolate maker says a ventilation problem launched cocoa powder into the open air outside its facility last Friday morning. The wind caught the powder and spread it across the neighbourhood, leaving a fine dusting of sweet, sweet chocolate.
Lindt confirmed the incident in a statement to the Associated Press on Tuesday. The company says the powder came from cocoa nibs, which are the crushed cocoa bean fragments used to make chocolate.
It wasn't a Willy Wonka-style chocolate giveaway, but rather a defect in the factory's cooling ventilation, Lindt said.
Lindt says it was a minor incident that did not stop production, and the cocoa poses no threat to the surrounding area.
The town shared a photo of the chocolate dusted over top of a car on Twitter.
Lindt has offered to pay for someone to clean the chocolate off the car, though it probably wouldn't be hard to find a volunteer.
The factory defect has since been repaired, Lindt says.
In other words, chocolate rain is only in the past, they say.
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As far as industrial accidents go it could have been worse
I was involved in a chocolate explosion incident in college (long story) and smelled like chocolate for almost 2 weeks.
Lol you must have been a popular girl then
It made me sick to my stomach and my roommate moved in with her bf for those two weeks.
Some people have all the luck.
I'm headed there with ice cream.
the cocoa poses no threat to the surrounding area
What a relief! It could have been a chocolate Chernobyl...