The machine then pounds it against the floor until it is all nice and smooth and thin. In there, the rough fudge gets tipped out of the waggons into the mouth of a huge machine. “That hole,” said Mr Wonka, “leads directly to what we call The Pounding And Cutting Room. The tour of Willy Wonka’s factory takes the children and their families (including Charlie Bucket’s mother in this draft, rather than his grandfather) to a mountain of vanilla fudge, only for two boys to inadvisedly take a ride in a wagon that puts them in danger of being chopped to pieces: Maev Kennedy writes that the lost chapter, set in the Vanilla Fudge Room, was deemed “too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago.” Much of the book has as its premise that disobedient and gluttonous children are faced with the threat of being made into confectionery, and this chapter is no exception. Roald Dahl fans, rejoice! A previously unpublished chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ran in the Guardian over the weekend, complete with glimpses into early versions of characters that were changed or omitted in the version of the book most of us know. A lost chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ran in Saturday’s Guardian Review
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