The Real Wonka Bar
In real life, Wonka Bars are chocolate candy bars inspired by the novel and the films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Quaker Oats Company, which financed the 1971 film with US$3 million, originally created a candy bar in time to publicize the 1971 film. In the documentary "Pure Imagination", producer David L. Wolper claims the bar was released to stores, but quickly recalled due to a production problem. The few people who purchased and ate one of those bars reported the production problem was that they tasted horrible.
Chocolate company BritishCandy, which sells Retro Sweets Hampers, also created Wonka Bar replicas that looked exactly like the ones in the 1971 film. However they were not real Wonka Bars, just 100g of unbranded milk chocolate and a printed golden ticket inside a replica Wonka Bar wrapper. They are still sold all around the world today.
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