Wonka Bar

The Wonka Bar is originally a fictional chocolate bar, introduced as a key story point in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Wonka Bars appear in each film adaptation of the novel: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Wonka (2023).

The bar also appeared in the musical adaptation of the novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).

Quaker Oats created Wonka Bars. The movie was funded largely by Quaker Oats for the intention of promoting the soon to be released Wonka Bars. However, Quaker Oats chose not to market the bars, instead selling the brand to their manufacturer Sunline.

Other varieties of Wonka Bars were subsequently manufactured and sold in the real world, formerly by the Willy Wonka Candy Company, a division of Nestlé. These bars were discontinued in January 2010 due to poor sales.

In Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its film adaptations, a Wonka Bar is a chocolate bar and Willy Wonka's signature product, said to be the "perfect candy bar".

The wrappers of the 1971 version are brown with an orange and pink border with a top hat over the "W" in Wonka, similar to the film's logo, and the chocolate bars resemble Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars.

In the 2005 version, the wrappers feature different shades of a color and are also more detailed, including a more stylised "W" without a top hat, and the chocolate bars strikingly resemble king-sized Kit Kat chocolate bars, only slightly bigger.