Swiss chocolate is world famous. In the Swiss town of Olten in the canton of Solothurn it has now rained chocolate from the sky - a childhood dream.
- The Switzerland also enjoys their chocolate world fame.
- A childhood dream has now come true in the Swiss town of Olten in the canton of Solothurn.
- It was raining chocolate from the sky
Munich - 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.
Cocoa rain in the Olten industrial district: the ventilation system is to blame https://t.co/O9Iorni5Iz pic.twitter.com/3LWZCsHeE0
- Olten (@olten) August 15, 2020However, there was no gentle fairy or magician from the nearby Thal Nature Park behind the wondrous chocolate phenomenon, 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 roast was defective.
Lindt: Cocoa powder covers the car
"Small particles of roasted, crushed cocoa bean pieces" got into the environment, 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, however, "completely harmless" for humans and the environment, the spokeswoman emphasized. In the meantime, however, the error has been remedied. Production was not affected by the incident. 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 Lindt 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
Lindt specializes in high-quality chocolate and pralines. The company, based in Kilchberg near Zurich , achieved a sales increase of 4.5 percent to the equivalent of 4.2 billion euros last year. The bottom line was that the premium chocolate manufacturer earned 475 million euros, around five percent more than a year earlier.
In the current year, however, the Swiss have also felt the effects of the Covid pandemic. From January to June the revenues fell by 8.1 percent to 1.42 billion euros, the operating result collapsed by around 87 percent to around 15.8 million euros most recently. * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen Digital network.
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