'Chocolate snow falls over Swiss town

It was a defect in the factory's cooling ventilation system: Lindt

OLTEN (Web Desk) - Dreams do come true — or at least they do in Switzerland, where chocolate fell from the sky due to a malfunction at the Lindt & Sprüngli factory in the town of Olten.

The chocolate maker says a ventilation problem launched cocoa powder into the open air outside its facility last Friday morning. The wind caught the powder and spread it across the neighbourhood, leaving a fine dusting of sweet, sweet chocolate.

Lindt confirmed the incident in a statement. The company says the powder came from cocoa nibs, which are the crushed cocoa bean fragments used to make chocolate.

It wasn’t a Willy Wonka-style chocolate giveaway, but rather a defect in the factory’s cooling ventilation, Lindt said.