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Charlie Bucket and four other children, among them chewinggum lover Violet Beauregarde, are lucky enough to be invited inside Mr Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Willy Wonka is not like any other factory owner, his factory is not like any other factory, and his products are certainly not like any other kinds of sweets! In this excerpt from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Roald Dahl gives us the story of Violet Beauregarde’s meeting with a very special chewing-gum!
The great gum machine “This gum,” Mr Wonka went on, “is my latest, my greatest, my most fascinating invention! It’s a chewing-gum meal! It’s … it’s … it’s … that tiny little strip of gum lying there is a whole three-course dinner all by itself!” “What sort of nonsense is this?” said one of the fathers.
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