On Top of Fudge Mountain
September 1, 2014 § Leave a comment
In the centre of the room there was an actual mountain, a colossal jagged mountain as high as a five-storey building, and the whole thing was made of pale-brown, creamy, vanilla fudge. All the way up the sides of the mountain, hundreds of men were working away with picks and drills, hacking great hunks of fudge out of the mountainside; and some of them, those that were high up in dangerous places, were roped together for safety.
As the huge hunks of fudge were pried loose, they went tumbling and bouncing down the mountain, and when they reached the bottom they were picked up by cranes with grab-buckets, and the cranes dumped the fudge into open waggons – into an endless moving line of waggons (rather like smallish railway waggons) which carried the stuff away to the far end of the room and then through a hole in the wall.
“It’s all fudge!” Mr Wonka said grandly.
The Guardian unearths an unpublished chapter from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Some early differences: apparently there were originally more than five children touring the factory, and instead of Grandpa Joe, Charlie is accompanied by his mother.
Neil Serven 
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