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“It’s Raining Chocolate From The Sky,” The Swiss City Of Olten Covered In Cocoa

Olten, a town in north-western Switzerland where residents of an industrial are have been reporting chocolate powder raining from the sky for several days now.

The European country is well-known for making perhaps the best chocolate in the world, no wonder that chocolate rain occurs here. Reports of chocolate powder falling from the sky in the town of Olten started showing up online few days ago.

Can be seen cars covered in the brown stuff which believed to be chocolate powder. People found it hard to believe it, but then authorities confirmed it and so did the company that responsible for the bizarre phenomenon.

Lindt & Spruengli chocolate factory, which in the town of Olten, in Switzerland’s Solothurn canton had a malfunction of the cooling ventilation system of a cocoa roasting line at the factory apparently caused the powdered goodness to be released into the outside air. The strong wind then have been blowing the area since Friday morning carried the powdered chocolate from the factory to nearby residential areas.

People in the area have been having a field day with this wacky news, from joking about walking outside with a ball of milk and cereal to catch some chocolate, to lamenting about it not raining Swiss watches instead.

Source: Oddity Central

Adib Mohd

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