I’m honestly just stuck thinking about that cleanup. Like… hydrovac is great, but how do you clean out a hydrovac truck filled with butter. And after you get it out, then what? In Madison they temporarily stored it in sanitary sewer holding ponds but that’s not a viable final destination. Does it eventually end up at the landfill?!

A truck carrying 27 tons of Norwegian caramelized goat cheese caught fire in a tunnel in northern Norway in 2013; it burned for five days in part because the tunnel's liner was flammable...

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/cheese-fire-causes...

Extensive repairs and upgrades were required -- it apparently took years before the tunnel was fully reopened to bidirectional traffic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aat0VskBS4A

A pity a sugar and vanilla truck were also not involved.

> the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 and injuring 150 people.

That sounds truly horrifying. My intuition about molasses at that volume is all wrong.

Also see the Dublin Whiskey Fire[0] and the London Beer Flood[1] and maybe the Kentucky Meat Shower[2] as an honorable mention.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_whiskey_fire

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower

Being out on the trail for the Fourth of July one year, I celebrated by taking a handful of flour, rolling it up in a map, and blowing it across a campfire. You can make an impressive fireball with very little flour!