has pictures of fruits on it – bananas, apples, oranges, grapes,
pineapples, strawberries, and snozzberries...’
‘Snozzberries?’ said Mike Teavee.
‘Don’t interrupt!’ said Mr Wonka. ‘The wallpaper has pictures of all
these fruits printed on it, and when you lick the picture of a banana, it
tastes of banana. When you lick a strawberry, it tastes of strawberry.
And when you lick a snozzberry, it tastes just exactly like a
snozzberry...’
‘But what does a snozzberry taste like?’
‘You’re mumbling again,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘Speak louder next time. On
we go! Hurry up!’
HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS, it said on the next door.
‘Extremely useful in the winter,’ said Mr Wonka, rushing on. ‘Hot ice
cream warms you up no end in freezing weather. I also make hot ice
cubes for putting in hot drinks. Hot ice cubes make hot drinks hotter.’
COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK, it said on the next door.
‘Ah, my pretty little cows!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘How I love those cows!’
‘But why can’t we see them?’ asked Veruca Salt. ‘Why do we have to
go rushing on past all these lovely rooms?’
‘We shall stop in time!’ called out Mr Wonka. ‘Don’t be so madly
impatient!’
FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS, it said on the next door.
‘Oh, those are fabulous!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘They fill you with bubbles,
and the bubbles are full of a special kind of gas, and this gas is so
terrifically lifting that it lifts you right off the ground just like a balloon,
and up you go until your head hits the ceiling – and there you stay.’
‘But how do you come down again?’ asked little Charlie.
‘You do a burp, of course,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘You do a great big long
rude burp, and up comes the gas and down comes you! But don’t drink it
outdoors! There’s no knowing how high up you’ll be carried if you do
that. I gave some to an old Oompa-Loompa once out in the back yard
and he went up and up and disappeared out of sight! It was very sad. I
never saw him again.’
‘He should have burped,’ Charlie said.