Breaking: Do NOT try to eat the Wonka float at the 97th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is one of our funniest holiday traditions, a kitschy paean to commercialism that’s the only place I can think of where you’ll find Goku, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Jolly Green Giant all there, enthusiastically introduced. Al Roker. Part of the fun is seeing who made the cut and who didn’t make the cut.

(Sometimes, Vegeta…)

One of this year’s additions will be a float inspired by the upcoming film wonkastarring Paulus Atreides Timothée Chalamet. “Wonka’s Delightful World” features “delicate and delectable confections adorning the shop’s counters,” with illuminated candy barrels that “contain approximately 592,000 pieces of candy support.”

of this candy It is an interesting phrase, and it can be taken in two ways. The first, less important way is “almost” as in “fake” meaning candy-shaped and colored just for looks. But it is also possible that “candy” in this context is used as a prop for “real, edible candy”, which would be both the master and most learned of Willy Wonka’s oeuvre.

Since I won’t sleep between today and Thanksgiving unless I know the answer, they reached out to representatives of Warner Bros.’s common interests. and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, along with the question: Is candy worth eating?

Friends, I have terrible news: According to a PR rep, no, “but the cart is being handled in the public domain.

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Image: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade/Warner Bros.

Attention Reader: If you see Wonka floating around sometime between now and Thanksgiving (or later, I don’t know what they do with them when the parade is over) do not eat.