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The fire brigade said the chocolate solidified into a 33-square-foot "choco-pancake" that firefighter pried up from the ground using "shovels and muscle power."
Markus Luckey of DreiMeister said the factory was back up and running Wednesday and would be able to recover from the loss. He told the Soester Anzeiger newspaper it "would have been a disaster" if the spill had taken place closer to Christmas.