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Snozzberries? Who ever heard of a snozzberry?
— Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • 1971
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Veruca asks the question the audience is asking, and the film's answer is that in this factory you do not get one. It is the 1971 film's purest nonsense flavour: an invented fruit that tastes of itself. Fans quote it as the reply to anything with a name nobody has heard of, and Veruca's sneer is half the joke.
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In context
Spoilers for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate FactoryShow the scene
After the boat ride and the Inventing Room, Wonka leads the group into a corridor of lickable wallpaper. Charlie and Grandpa Joe taste the painted fruit and marvel at how real it is. Wonka urges them on: the strawberries taste like strawberries and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries. Veruca Salt, who rarely lets anything pass, scoffs that nobody ever heard of a snozzberry. Wonka's answer is to grab her jaw and recite two lines of poetry at her.
Sources (3)
- Wikiquote: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate FactoryLickable wallpaper scene, after Charlie's banana lineReference checked
- Springfield! Springfield! film transcriptWallpaper corridorReference checked
- Roald Dahl Fan Wiki: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate FactoryPlot summaryReference checked
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