Sticky, stinky situation: Memphis truck crash leaves hundred of bottles' worth of cheesy pasta sauce spilled on highway

• A truck full of Alfredo sauce bottles crashed and spilled its contents all over a Tennessee highway.
• The road smelled great at first but soon began to stink, per Fox 13 reporter Kate Bieri.

A highway accident on Tuesday evening left a giant streak of Alfredo pasta sauce baking in the summer heat on the I-55 in Memphis.

The mishap occurred when an 18-wheeler carrying hundreds of bottles of Alfredo sauce crashed, leaving one side of the road covered in the cheesy condiment, according to Fox 13 reporter Kate Bieri.

The sauced-caked road smelled great at first, but not for long, Bieri told The New York Times.

"Unfortunately, this is Memphis, and we had some pretty intense sun beating down on that Alfredo sauce, and also humidity," she said, per The Times. "It was just not a great recipe for a highway full of Alfredo sauce."

The Alfredo started to go "really bad" after about an hour, Bieri added, per the outlet.

The responding cleanup and tow crew wore boots as though they were working in the snow, Bieri told The Times.

One person was to scoop up the sauce using an excavator and dispose of it in a dumpster — a job that took around four hours, according to the Fox 13 reporter.

The driver of the 18-wheeler was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, The Times reported.

Another pasta-related spill occurred the day before on the interstate in Vacaville, California, where a truck hauling 150,000 tomatoes spilled its contents and caused hours of traffic delays.

The tomatoes left a sea of red sauce along a 200-foot stretch on the freeway, BBC reported, citing a highway patrol officer.