Chocolate Spill Leaves Germany In A Sweet, Sticky Mess

A street in a western German town got the Willy Wonka treatment when a ton of chocolate flowed out of a factory and solidified on the cold pavement.

Just before 8 p.m. Monday, liquid chocolate began streaming out of the DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westonnen, a suburb of Werl, Germany. A tank at the factory had overflowed, prompting a river of chocolate to ooze out onto Weststrasse, the closest road to the factory.

Due to the cold December air, the chocolate solidified, repaving the road.

“A ten-square-meter choco-pancake formed,” the Werl fire department said in a statement. The department even told chocolate lovers to “stay strong” before reading about the incident.

The Werl fire department went on to say that the road was closed for about two hours and was cleaned “with shovels and muscle power.”

“This was a traffic hazard, which made the use of the fire department necessary,” the department said.

DreiMeister chief executive Markus Luckey told German newspaper “Soester Anzeiger” it would have been “a catastrophe” had the spill happened closer to Christmas.

The chocolate factory will be reopened Wednesday, Dec. 12.

This is not the first time a chocolate mess has occurred in Europe. For those who remember, earlier this year, about 12 tons of melted chocolate spilled across a highway in Poland after a tanker overturned.

By: Maytinee Kramer