Chocolate flows down German street after factory accident. Willy Wonka couldn’t be reached for comment

In what sounds like a scene from a Willy Wonka movie, a ton of German chocolate flowed down a road and hardened into sweet pavement amid cold temperatures. 

It wasn’t exactly a dream come true for the 25 firefighters responsible for cleaning it up — using hot water, shovels and blow torches. 

German newspaper Soester Anzeiger reported that a “small technical defect” involving a storage tank caused the liquid chocolate leak from a DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westoennen on Monday night.

It apparently overflowed. Quite a bit. Onto nearly four miles of a nearby street, Reuters reports. 

The chocolate factory’s boss said if the leak happened closer to Christmas it would have been a “catastophe.” He promised the factory would be fully operational by Wednesday. 

People on Twitter asked the obvious question: “Willy Wonka, that you?”

Roald Dahl HQ said unfortunately, the whimsical chocolate factory character couldn’t be reached for comment. 

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