Everlasting Gobstopper
Multi colored Everlasting Gobstoppers
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| Type | Sweets | ||||||
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| Course | Side dish | ||||||
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Fictional: United Kingdom |
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Fictional:Roald Dahl Product: Chicago |
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| Created by |
Fictional: Roald Dahl |
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| 60 kcal (251 kJ) | |||||||
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| Protein | g |
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| Fat | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | g |
Fictional: United Kingdom
Fictional:Roald Dahl
Fictional: Roald Dahl
The Everlasting Gobstopper is both a fictional brand of candy and an actual confection named after the fictional product.
According to Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the fictional Everlasting Gobstopper is a candy that not only changes colors and flavors, but can never be finished, and never even gets smaller. It is implied that they may also be indestructible. Factory owner Willy Wonka explained that they were "for children with very little pocket money".
Although only briefly mentioned in the book and its 2005 film adaptation, the 1971 film adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory used the Everlasting Gobstopper as a plot device in which Wonka's business rival Slugworth attempts to bribe the children visiting the Wonka factory to steal one for him. This is later revealed as a lie; Slugworth is actually Mr. Wilkinson, one of Wonka's workers. The proposal is a test Wonka set up to judge the worthiness of the ticket holders to take over the factory, given to all five children.
The actual Everlasting Gobstopper 'prop' used in the Gene Wilder movie was sold for $100,000 to the owners of TV show Pawn Stars.
A product called Everlasting Gobstopper was introduced in 1976 by the Chicago candy company Breaker Confections. It had licensed the "Willy Wonka" name in 1971 so that their candy could be used as merchandising tie-ins for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory film, which was released the same year.The Willy Wonka Candy Company brand has since been bought by Nestlé and production has been moved to Itasca, Illinois.
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