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Everything inside is eatable, I mean edible, I mean you can eat everything.
— Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A speaker stumbles through fixing a word, going from "eatable" to "edible" and then giving up and saying it plainly: everything can be eaten. The comedy is in the self-correction, which ends with the simplest possible phrasing.
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