Wonderful Chocolate Rain Covers Town In Switzerland 2020

Many childhood dreams go like this: You sit in the playground or romp in the playground and it rains chocolate from the sky – just like that. This childhood dream has now come true in the Swiss town of OIten in the canton of Solothurn. On Friday it rained cocoa beans from the sky.

However, behind the miraculous chocolate phenomenon was not a gentle fairy or a magician from the nearby Thal Nature Park with a weakness for sweets, but simply a defect. In the factory of the world-famous chocolate manufacturer Lindt around 50 kilometers south of Basel, the cooling ventilation in a cocoa bean roaster was defective.

Chocolate Rain “Small particles of roasted, crushed cocoa bean pieces” got into the area, as a company spokeswoman from Lindt told Merkur.de * on Wednesday. The so-called cocoa nibs were distributed by the wind and carried to an adjacent parking lot. A car driver turned to the Oltner Tagblatt after he found a fine layer of cocoa on his vehicle.

The cocoa particles are “completely harmless” for humans and the environment, emphasized the spokeswoman. They are currently working flat out to fix the error. But production is not affected. Of course, you would also be responsible for cleaning the car, assured the company spokeswoman. So far, however, the driver has not reported.

Lindt: In Olten, the group produces the cocoa mass for all plants

Lindt produces the entire cocoa mass for all of the Group’s chocolate factories at its Olten plant. The employees produce 150 tons of cocoa mass per day. In Germany, the company is best known for its Lindt gold bunnies .