• Eagle0600@yiffit.net
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      4 months ago

      Gobstoppers are a real candy that you can buy, the movie didn’t invent them. What they invented was the “everlasting” gobstopper.

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        4 months ago

        I always knew those candies as jawbreakers (should be self-explanatory based on the above description) so it might be also be a regional/generational thing

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Except that wasn’t slugworth in the movie. It was a guy working for Willy Wonka who was testing the kids to see if they’d betray him/could be trusted with the factory.