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Weird1 min(s) read
This has been a difficult year for everyone and with bad news aplenty, so it can be hard to remember that sometimes wonderful accidents happen on our pale blue dot.
But even in 2020, they are still taking place, something this Swiss town learned all too well when it was covered with chocolate snow after a ventilation fault at Lindt factory.
Yes, we're thinking it too, it sounds like something from a fairytale - or a gingerbread house situation come to life!
On that note, cast your mind back to the 1971 trailer for Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory:
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The chocolate snow fell on Olten, between Zurich and Basel, and its content was confirmed by the Lindt & Spruengli company this afternoon when they revealed that there was a small ventilation fault in a line of its roasted "cocoa nibs" - aka crushed cocoa beans that are used as the basis of chocolate.
Strong winds on the morning of Friday, August 14 caused this dust to fall around the vicinity of the factory, resulting in a very literal chocolate snow.
AP News reports that the company has offered to pay the cleaning fee of a car that was covered in chocolate fragments.
However, the owner of the car has reportedly yet to take the company up on the offer of free cleaning, and we can't blame them. A chocolate-covered car is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It's there to be relished and enjoyed.
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The company has assured people that the particles emitted by the factory are completely harmless to people and the environment, and the fault was quickly fixed after the brief chocolate snowfall took place.
The ventilation system is now repaired, so Olten residents will just have to make do with ordinary snow from now on, unless, of course, they get lucky with another happy accident again.
