# I Fell in a Vat of Chocolate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974 "2022-06-10T13:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/21 "2022-06-10T19:07:56Z")
Sad. Just sad. At least Dung\_Beetle got it. Are we all that old now? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/22 "2022-06-10T19:41:58Z")
After further investigation, it was discovered that it was an employee of the Hershey Corporation who pushed the visitors into the vat. When questioned by the confectionary police, the employee said the two individuals asked him to make them a chocolate bar. So he did. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/23 "2022-06-10T21:54:36Z")
Did they at least get to lick themselves clean. I make a batch of chocolate truffles every couple weeks and one benefit is that I get to lick my fingers afterward. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/24 "2022-06-10T22:35:27Z")
I think it was really a fight over a treasure map disguised as a model sailing ship. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/25 "2022-06-11T05:46:43Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Better than [Steven Dierkes](https://nypost.com/2022/06/07/worker-steven-dierkes-melted-in-half-after-falling-into-vat-of-molten-iron/), who fell into a vat of molten iron at a Caterpiller plant; they recovered half of him. Article doesn’t mention if he went in head first or feet first, nor which half of him they recovered. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/26 "2022-06-11T05:48:25Z")
How hot is molten chocolate? Like, if you fall in the vat, do you get 1st degree burns from head to foot, or 2nd degree, or whatever? Maybe you just get super sweetness, but it has a permanent effect on you? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/27 "2022-06-11T06:56:43Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > How hot is molten chocolate? It depends on a lot of factors. Chocolate has a complicated phase diagram: [![](https://i.imgur.com/1Hsw5FB.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/1Hsw5FB.png) As you can see, it could be liquid at as low as 15 C before crystallizing in the alpha phase. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/28 "2022-06-11T22:00:02Z")
Can I be your friend? \*bats eyelashes \* ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/29 "2022-06-12T10:12:25Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Article doesn’t mention if he went in head first or feet first, nor which half of him they recovered. Or was it that they basically recovered organic material equal to half of a person? On the topic of industrial accidents, the _Loose Units_ podcast (and one of its associated books) discussed an accident at an Australian Kellogg’s plant in which a young apprentice was working in a pressure vessel used in the manufacture of Rice Bubbles, but someone had failed to properly lock out/tag out the steam lines. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/30 "2022-06-12T21:25:42Z")
One of the pair might have been a magician. They found some Twix up his sleeve. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/31 "2022-06-13T02:28:37Z")
Some times you feel like a nut ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/32 "2022-06-13T16:18:42Z")
Sometimes you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/33 "2022-06-13T16:20:25Z")
I hear they’re suing for 100 grand. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/34 "2022-06-13T16:36:20Z")
Sue for 100 grand, settle for some kisses. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/35 "2022-06-13T17:19:39Z")
I don’t think Hari wants bats eyelashes in his truffles. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/36 "2022-06-13T17:34:31Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > I hear they’re suing for 100 grand. Who’s suing for 100 grand? The guys who fell in the molten candy, or they guy who fell in the molten iron? Did the chocolate-coated guys get injured? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/37 "2022-06-13T17:38:23Z")
That was a [Whatchamacallit](https://www.hersheyland.com/whatchamacallit)…a whoosh. > **[100 Grand Bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Grand_Bar)** > > 100 Grand (originally called the $100,000 Candy Bar and then, from the 1970s through the mid-1980s, as the $100,000 Bar) is a candy bar produced by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero. The candy bar was created in 1964 by Nestlé. It weighs 1.5 ounces (43 g) and includes chocolate, caramel and crisped rice. The bar contains 201 calories; it is low in cholesterol and sodium, but high in saturated fat and sugar. Its first slogan was, "Tastes so good it's almost illegal!" I In the mid ... ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/38 "2022-06-13T17:39:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > That was a [Whatchamacallit](https://www.hersheyland.com/whatchamacallit)…a whoosh. Oh, good to know. I was thinking of jumping into a vat of chocolate myself. So I guess it’s actually okay to do. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/39 "2022-06-13T22:27:36Z")
Sounds tastier than crunchy frog. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974/40 "2022-06-13T23:17:54Z")
No, not Hershey please. If I have to land in a vat of chocolate, that would be the last choice for me. I want good chocolate. IMO, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fell-in-a-vat-of-chocolate/965974.md?page=3)