Thousands of fish have been reported dead in the waters around Honolulu after a massive spill of molasses.
On Monday (Sept. 9), a pipeline from a molasses tank near Honolulu Harbor was loading the heavy, sweet liquid onto a ship when a leak in the pipeline dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of the sticky substance into the ocean. "It's sunk to the bottom of the harbor," Jeff Hull, a spokesman for Matson Inc., the company responsible for the leak, told the Los Angeles Times. "Unlike oil, which can be cleaned from the surface, molasses sinks."
Molasses is a dark, viscous liquid that's generally made from sugarcane. Grapes, sugar beets, sorghum or other plants can also be used to make a molasses-like substance. The production of molasses is a labor-intensive process requiring several steps, including cutting the sugarcane plants, boiling, straining, skimming and reboiling. [Top 10 Bad Foods That Are Good For You]