Chocolate Snowed On A Swiss Town
Wikimedia CommonsThe peaceful town of Olten, Switzerland, where it snowed chocolate in 2020.
In a deliciously sweet odd news story, the residents of Olten, Switzerland reported that flakes of chocolate snow fell down from the heavens one day in August. Although a delightful surprise for Olten’s residents, the candy snow meant that workers at the local Lindt chocolate factory had a serious problem on their hands.
It didn’t take long for the factory workers to realize that this weird news was the result of a malfunctioning ventilation system. As confirmed by the Lindt & Sprüngli company itself, the factory in question had a minor defect in the cooling system for the area where “cocoa nibs” are roasted. As a result, specks of chocolate were blasted out of the factory.
To the delight of Olten’s chocolate connoisseurs, the mechanical defect coincided with a storm that Friday morning that blew the delicate chocolate powder into the skies. In what must have seemed like a fairy tale scenario, the area directly surrounding the factory was consequently covered in a fine layer of chocolate powder.
TwitterThe world-renowned Lindt & Sprüngli company offered to pay this vehicle’s owner for any cleanup costs.
Lindt & Sprüngli offered to pay for any cleanup efforts the citizens required and said they planned to “remedy this defect” at the factory, but it appeared locals took this strange news story in stride.
The company also reminded its potential customers that the powder in question was not dangerous to humans or the environment, before resuming production. Lindt is more than 100 years old, but this was the only incident of its kind in the company’s history.
Some of the oddest news stories often concern the weather. The Olten incident was far less debilitating than the literal rain of octopuses that fell on the Chinese city of Qingdao in 2018. The Honduran town of Yoro, meanwhile, experiences an annual storm of fish called “lluvia de Pesces,” or “rain of fish.”
In contrast, being coated in some free and delicious chocolate seems like an absolute treat.
