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No use crying over spilled food: Look for the upside

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No use crying over spilled food: Look for the upside

Pizza on the freeway. Popeye’s biscuits. A chocolate river on the asphalt. Rolling oranges galore. Ramen noodles and frozen poultry scatted amidst the double yellow lines.

As the food-news site Eater.com reported, trucking accidents involving food always make for great photographs. Seen as fun fodder for the news, there are other upsides.

In its reporting this week of an overturned tanker truck carrying 12 tons of liquid chocolate in Western Poland, it’s clear not everybody’s crying over spilled chocolate.

Such food tragedies are “in theory covered by insurance” and often result in free publicity for companies whose products go to spoil in the hot sun, the site says.

 

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