I’d be looking for something salty and savory. The sweets would get a bit sickening.
Also, none of the stuff looked all that delicious either. It looked like commercial Halloween-type candy, not high-end Belgian or Swiss chocolates. That lady in Chocolat had a finer selection of sweets.
Was there not a lunch provided during the tour? They were waiting at the gate at 10am so I’m sure a mid day meal would have been expected. Maybe Wonka felt the group could just help themselves in the candy room if they were hungry?
shareWhy the hell would anyone expect to begin a prize tour of a candy factory with a full stomach? Why would they expect to be fed anything other than candy? Do you write Disney movies for a living?
shareReminds me of an interview Johnny Depp did to promote his version. They brought in all these great chocolatiers to make things for the movies. Johnny's complaint: He doesn't like high end chocolate. He prefers cheap Easter Bunny/Candy bar chocolate.
shareSounds like he's more of a candy guy than a chocolate guy.
My wife loves Hersey's, and I can tolerate it but a few Hershey Kisses now and then can hit the spot with a cup of coffee. To me, a Hershey's bar is chocolate flavored candy. It's like a Big Mac - if it's a hamburger I really want, I wouldn't get a Big Mac, but I do admit that if eaten under the context of a meat sandwich, it's fairly tasty.
Unrelated comment but what the hell - it just popped into my head. There's probably no company on Earth who knows more about chocolate than Hershey's, and indeed, it wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't easily make commercial chocolate that would rival anyone in the world (they make great cocoa powder I use in baking), but it's not their jam. Hershey's is a high volume company, and the sour-milk taste based Hershey bar has been ingrained in Americana since they were selling chocolate early in the 19th century. Surprisingly, there are also many other countries where Hershey's type of chocolate sells well - mostly because Hershey bars were distributed as part of survival food rations to foreign countries in WWII. When you're starving, anything tastes good and you develop a taste for it.
There are plenty of independent small market chocolatiers based in the U.S. that cover the smaller market for premium chocolate as well as the fine imported chocolates from Europe.
So what if you and your wife were literally starving and the only meal you could eat for years was cabbage water infused with the taste of grandpa joes underwear for flavor you think a few Hershey’s kisses would make you content? Rubbish! You would be dying for steak and seafood or a huge cheeseburger with French fries. In fact if you saw some street urchin like Charlie carrying banquet bread you would rob him at gun point to steal the bread and then shoot him in the foot and watch him hobble home just for kicks.
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Unfair analogy. Shooting kids in the foot and watch them hobble home is funny - hungry or not.