‘Not a great recipe’: truckload of Alfredo sauce bakes in sun after highway spill

Just a day after a truck spilled a gigantic load of tomatoes over a highway in California, another bizarre food spill unfolded in Tennessee where an enormous slick of creamy Alfredo pasta sauce was accidentally deposited all over a busy road.

The accident occurred when a 18-wheeler truck carrying hundreds of bottles of the cheese-based sauce crashed and spilled them all over I-55, leading to one half of the road being covered in what looked from a distance like snow - but was in fact the popular pasta-enhancing condiment.

"Crews worked through dusk to clear the sauce - using cleaning equipment, not breadsticks, of course," NBC reported.

Less amusingly - for local residents at least - the baking hot summer sun did not treat the exposed mass of Alfredo sauce kindly. In short order, it rapidly started to go off.

"Unfortunately, this is Memphis, and we had some pretty intense sun beating down on that Alfredo sauce and also humidity," a local Fox journalist, Kate Bieri, told the New York Times.

"It was just not a great recipe for a highway full of Alfredo sauce."

On Monday, a truck spilled more than 150,000 tomatoes across about 200ft of a busy interstate in Vacaville, California leaving a pile 2ft-deep in places and causing hefty traffic delays.

On Reddit, where both stories went viral, one user remarked: "Have the pasta sauce companies launched a war? Is there a Pesto attack looming??"