Comments on: Mo-lay!

Mo-lay!

Kibbutz — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:18:47 -0800

Worker falls into chocolate vat. His quick-thinking co-workers understand the chemistry of of confection.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:20:32 -0800

If I'm gonna die, I'd be okay with going that way.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:24:16 -0800

Some people don't realize this, but chocolate can actually be quite tasty!

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:24:45 -0800

Was Gene Wilder present and was the man wearing lederhosen?

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:25:23 -0800

By: peeedro

peeedro — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:28:13 -0800

Somebody put a pantless man in my chocolate!

By: StopMakingSense

StopMakingSense — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:31:16 -0800

Somebody put chocolate in my pantless man!

By: poppo

poppo — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:33:20 -0800

Pretty sweet

By: poppo

poppo — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:33:46 -0800

What a sweet guy he must be

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:34:15 -0800

"Chocolate Garcia" would be a pretty good band name. Or a deviant sex act.

By: afx114

afx114 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:35:54 -0800

By: themadjuggler

themadjuggler — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:38:50 -0800

I love how journalists take the opposite approach of academics when it comes to placing the least important things at the end. After describing the worker's hospital stint, the author concludes abruptly and anti-climactically: Debelis, a subsidiary of the Brussels, Belgium-based Puratos Group, makes a variety of premium chocolate for commercial customers.

By: banished

banished — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:39:16 -0800

I hope they threw that batch out.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:45:27 -0800

I declare this FPP to be delicious!

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:48:15 -0800

What's with the Mexican tag?

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:49:01 -0800

I hope they used the cooled chocolate as a mold for Garcia's lower half and release "Ye Olde Thyme Marshmallow Filled Panic'd Worker Halves" before Halloween.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:49:34 -0800

What's with the Mexican tag? Havn't you ever had Mexican hot chocolate?

By: Floydd

Floydd — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:54:02 -0800

Dick: What did you do when you fell into the vat of chocolate? Tom: I shouted "Fire!" Dick: Why did you shout "Fire!"? Tom: Nobody'd have come if I'd yelled "Chocolate!"

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:59:20 -0800

Eventually, enough chocolate was removed that Garcia was able to take off his pants and be pulled out. He was taken to the Aurora Medical Center for treatment and was later released. Treated and released indeed.

By: |n$eCur3

|n$eCur3 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:00:53 -0800

Will never buy cherry garcia ice cream again.

By: cptnrandy

cptnrandy — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:04:10 -0800

Good for you, Floydd. Though I expect these young'ns won't know their Smothers Brothers.

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:04:48 -0800

Whoda thunk that 'death by chocolate' could be literal? :)

By: clevershark

clevershark — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:05:29 -0800

This type of death by chocolate would certainly be better than dying in this manner which is at once very similar and very, very different.

By: DakotaPaul

DakotaPaul — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:06:48 -0800

By: squidfartz

squidfartz — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:07:24 -0800

I wanna take my pants off in chocolate! Oh, justaminute... I did that this morning. Guess I'll have to wait until my girlfriend shaves my back with Nutella.

By: jefbla

jefbla — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:10:28 -0800

mmmm, chocolate covered nuts.

By: nlindstrom

nlindstrom — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:35:18 -0800

Haven't you ever had Mexican hot chocolate?

I have. She was cute, tasted real good, and I'll never forget that one night in the hot tub....

By: dflemingdotorg

dflemingdotorg — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:17:01 -0800

He was co-coa-ted. /stutter

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:37:56 -0800

Another man fell into a vat of Nutella. Death by chocolate. Drowned in chocolate.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:42:15 -0800

I don't care that they pulled the guy out of the chocalate, I'm still gonna eat that worker.

By: Max Power

Max Power — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:55:13 -0800

must something goin' on in southern wisconsin, the other day some guy tried to kick a jammed log in a wood chipper. now they have to clean to wood chipper.

By: divabat

divabat — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:02:26 -0800

There was a news report about a couple of weeks ago about a girl who fell into one of the machines in the bakery here in Australia and died. Very tragic.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:41:58 -0800

You put on a bass riff and throw in some girls you have teh start of a hell of a pron movie.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:50:37 -0800

Tom: Nobody'd have come if I'd yelled "Chocolate!" I knew a woman who could come at the thought of chocolate.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:45:42 -0800

Dick: What did you do when you fell into the vat of chocolate? Tom: I shouted "Fire!" Dick: Why did you shout "Fire!"? Tom: Nobody'd have come if I'd yelled "Chocolate!" Hey, you stole my Smothers Brothers reference!

By: quin

quin — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:08:01 -0800

must something goin' on in southern wisconsin, Haven't you heard? We are all crazy here. It's the weather. There is always something going on in southern Wisconsin. Usually it involves booze. And sometimes guns. Once in a great while, chocolate.

By: squidfartz

squidfartz — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:09:25 -0800

I guess he likes his chocolate with nuts! Zing!

By: empatterson

empatterson — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:30:05 -0800

I've had that Smothers Brothers song stuck in my head all day thanks to that post :)

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:56:15 -0800

And in the death by chocolate film genre, there was an amusing late-80s British black comedy called Consuming Passions about a failing family chocolate company. The company's fortunes revive when, after 3 workers accidentally fall in a chocolate vat and are drown, the public goes wild over the batch of chocolate with this "secret ingredient." The unscrupulous company owner makes his employees find a continuing supply of bodies to add to the recipe. The film was based on a Marty Palin script. Critics were very harsh, perhaps unduly so - I saw it on Bravo once and was much amused.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:04:51 -0800

I suspect the "fire" reference is a great generational dividing line. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of it. (Though I only knew it because they've played it a couple times on the tame XM comedy channel recently.)

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:24:11 -0800

I suspect the "fire" reference is a great generational dividing line. I hope not. I'm only 26. But, then, they were my father's albums, to which I would listen over and over and over. Yeah, as a 10 year old kid, I found the Smothers Brothers and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to be about the funniest things I'd ever heard. Now to go listen to the ballad of "Mediocre Fred".