It flows out only in the chocolate and the chocolate raw material ten tons flow out from the chocolate factory to the pasture in Norway.

It is Minde chocolate factory that the raw material flows and went out that exists in Bergen where the vigorous attack of a German army was received in World War II in the harbor city in the Norwegian southwest. The remainder taken out of the cacao bean by the cacao butter ten tons begins to leak by ingredients of chocolate on the night, August 16, it goes along from the factory in drainage, and it has effused to the nearby pasture. And, it has hardened on the pasture. A white mark where the cacao butter hardened remains on the pasture, and it is said that the man in the pasture will be surprised, too.

The cause of the flow of the cacao butter from the factory and going out is uncertain. However, the pasture not only is dyed up in white but also drainage is blocked, it hardens on the road, damage is large, and the losses of the factory are 85,000 dollars (about 10 million yen).

The cacao butter that flows out is the most important element in the chocolate and the sheep that keeps it by the farmer worries that it might get sick in man in former article though it is harmless.

The news animation of the former original article was seen. My impression cannot be "A little. "The story of "House of the cake" is often heard by the fairy tale of Europe. There is an impression like its ground version. Though it is of course regrettable that the cacao butter that has spread to one ground is not eaten as it is unlike the fairy tale. The smell of the cacao might have ruled surrounding integral in animation though the smell was not transmitted. And, the local populace might have come to think, "I do not want to see the chocolate".

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