Posted on 12/11/2018 4:20:51 PM PST by SMGFan
BERLIN (Reuters) - Firefighters in the town of Werl in western Germany tackled an unusual emergency late on Monday when a tank at a local firm making liquid chocolate overflowed and poured out onto a street.
“About a ton of chocolate ran out into the yard and from there onto the street,” a spokesman for the Werl fire department said in a statement.
“Despite this heartbreaking incident, it is unlikely that a chocolate-free Christmas is imminent in Werl,” the fire department said
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Bring spoons!!!!!!!
“What?..... Are you sure about that.?”
nevermind , not what Nagin wanted . /s
Carrying it wrong?
The Bible mentions streets of gold. Personally I’d be hoping for chocolate.
Is this an annual event? Seems to me that I’ve read this story here before.
just remember, if you’re drowning in chocolate yell “fire!” not “chocolate!”
You may be thinking of the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919. It was the first thing that came to my mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Can’t seem to find it. There was this tippy truck in Poland:
https://gizmodo.com/oops-a-tippy-truck-spilled-tons-of-sticky-chocolate-al-1825897677
I wasn’t thinking of Willie Wonka. . . .
there was the Great Molasses Flood
of January 15, 1919 in Boston MA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Last May in Poland
Chocolate spill makes for sweet mess on highway
https://abcnews.go.com/International/chocolate-spill-makes-sweet-mess-highway/story?id=55041587
I fell in a vat of chocolate
https://youtu.be/tSmqYSVVpTM
Yikes!
I think they placed an emergency call to Augustus Gloop.
Agreed, when I first learned about it I thought it was the strangest story I had ever heard.
Two Irishmen talking —
Pat: Did ya’ hear about Sean at the brewery?
Mike: No, what happened?
Pat: He fell into a vat of beer and drowned. Took him eight hours to die.
Mike: Eight hours, why so long?
Pat: Well, he got out twice to go to the ‘loo!
He's a more offensive stereotype than Apu was. Has he been removed from the show yet?
The Hershey Highway
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