Millions of Chocolate Bunnies Perish in Blaze

Reuters ^ | February 8, 2002 | Reuters

[riley1992]

Millions of Chocolate Bunnies Perish in Blaze

Last Updated: February 08, 2002 10:12 AM ET

ZURICH (Reuters) - A fire in a Swiss warehouse destroyed between 3.5 and four million Easter chocolate bunnies, Swiss retail chain Migros said on Friday.

The fire swept a central distribution warehouse containing nearly half of the total output needed to cover demand at Migros, Switzerland's largest retailer.

Suppliers Chocolat Frey and Migros's Midor have cranked up production, pledging to manufacture the bunnies "around the clock, seven days a week, through March 28."

[mystery-ak]

THE HORROR!

[Citizen Soldier]

Oh, the humanity!

[CedarDave]

Such carnage! Where's PETA?

[BlueLancer]

Well, at least it wasn't a chøcølååte Møøse warehouse!

Der Elite Møøsenspåånkengruppen OberKømmååndø

[Fury]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

[dighton]

Terrible, just terrible.

[riley1992]

Where's PETA?

Where are the stawberries? Somebody's got a lot of dipping to do now.

[VRWCmember]

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër ?

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See the løveli lakes

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The wøndërful telephøne system

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And mäni interesting furry animals

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Including the majestik Easter Bunny

[Cultural Jihad]

Osterhasenproduktion: Migros receives the Migros to Easter to special grant thereby enough Osterschokolade in the sales shelves has, must the Nachproduktion in the three-shift operation seven days the week be led. The wholesaler received for it the necessary grants. " we already began avowed Migros Mediensprecher Urs Peter Naef on Thursday to drive production ", on Friday on request. Chocolate production takes place in three-layer operation seven days the week to at the Green Thursday, 28 March. The kantonalen authorities would have assured the necessary grants for night and week final work. The rapid Nachproduktion is to procure the Migros production enterprises Chocolat Frey in book AG and Midor in miles ZH. And the distribution center in Basel takes over the distribution of the articles to the Migros cooperatives Zurich, Luzern and east Switzerland, for which the distribution center had been responsible in Volketswil. From the effects of the major fire those consumer inside and consumer practically nothing to notice, is convinced Naef. With the major fire at the night on Thursday a goods damage of altogether 43 million Franconia originated in. Osterschokolade in the value of 20 million as well as other sweet goods were destroyed like " Zuckereili " in the value of 9 million. Likewise broken the lighting assortment went from Micasa, what corresponds to a damage of 14 million, as Migros speaker explained Naef. The damage to the building cannot be numbered yet. According to a speaker of the inhabitants of zurich canton police the cause of fire is still unclear. The fire in the Migros Verteilzentrum had broken out at the Wednesday evening 21,45 o'clock in the attic and raged later on all the 3500 square meters large storage space. After three hour the fire-brigade brought the fire under check.

Source (via babelfish.altavista.com): http://www.tages-anzeiger.ch/

[razorback-bert]

Is the cheese of the Swiss safe?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Tabitha Soren should be arriving on this thread any minute now.

[Chad Fairbanks]

It was prohbably the damned A.L.F....

"Chocolate Bunnies are people, too!"

[Drew68]

I'll bet that was one lovely smelling fire. Mmm... chocolate.

[FairWitness]

I'm horrified!

[general_re]

Everybody get back! Or the bunny gets it, but good!

[Squantos]

Bad news comes in threes doesn't it ? Chocolate Bunnies and now this ?!?!?!? ...... That's two !

:o)Stay Safe Riley !!

[hflynn]

I understand when Bill Clinton was informed he immediately called Hugh Hefner to express his condolences.

[Landru]

Thank God you're in the cool snow, kid.
This couldn't happen to you.

...& white chocolate almond bark; my favoite, at that!!