Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket

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Everything in this room is eatable even I am eatable. But that is called cannibalism my dear children and is in fact frowned upon in most societies (willy wonka).In the famous movie Willy Wonka kids buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in chocolate to try and find a golden ticket. A golden ticket was an invitation to come to Willy Wonka’s factory even though it had been closed for decades. In truth they spent all this money to find a golden ticket so they could visit a factory where they made the world's best chocolate and candies. People nowadays would do the same things spent an enormous amount of money for a lousy ticket. But it wasn’t always like this. Back in the 1800’s Chase Lozenges was so simple especially with candy. All they had to offer was Chaze Lozenges and poorly flavored pudding, unless you were rich. …show more content…
It was a medicine that could help with a sore throat of coff. Although it was a medicine it was covered with candy to make it more palatable. Until a man started making just candy. People loved this new invention they thought he was a complete jenious. But their was a catch, sense not a lot of people made just candy it was very expensive. Most store’s had to make candy by hand instead of having a machine, like they do now. But only the best class and richest could afford to have it. Still kids craved these wonderful pieces of deliciousness. They would do anything for them clean their room, act nice to their sibling, or maybe even wash the dishes. Unfortunately this didn’t always work sometimes they had to settle for molasses flavored pudding or dried fruit!

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