What Sweet Disaster! Chocolate Rains Cover Swiss Town

In Switzerland, where chocolate is produced, exported and professionally made, rains were cocoa!

This is not something to further promote its products, but it’s real. British Daily Mail reported that  a Swiss town was left covered in fragments of chocolate after a malfunction at a Lindt factory.  

The magazine wrote that residents got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory malfunctioned.

On its part, the Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed that "there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation for a line for roasted 'cocoa nibs' in its factory in Olten, between Zurich and Basel."

The nibs, fragments of crushed cocoa beans, are the basis of chocolate. The company says one car was lightly coated, and that it has offered to pay for any cleaning needed - but hasn't yet been taken up on the offer.

Strong winds added to the sweet shock prompting the powder to widespread around the immediate vicinity of the factory, and making a cocoa dust to cover big areas in the town.

[caption id="attachment_144314" align="aligncenter" width="412"] Cocoa is placed on a roof top of a car[/caption]

According to the magazine, factory production was able to continue as normal and the company says the particles were completely harmless to people or the environment. The ventilation system has now been repaired.