# If an everlasting gobstopper existed, how could it be best used? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 13, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059 "2024-01-13T23:24:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/21 "2024-01-14T12:45:27Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I think the answer are factual, but it references a fiction. Too much speculation and opinion to be factual. Let’s move this to IMHO (from FQ). ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/22 "2024-01-14T14:23:41Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > It could also be a spherical device… In a frictionless vacuum? What I find amusing about the movie (the Gene Wilder version anyway) is that Wonka never explicitly says their _flavor_ lasts forever, just that they never get any smaller. They could just as well be painted rocks. WONKA: That’s right. For children with very little pocket money. You can suck 'em forever. … WONKA: Fantastic invention. Revolutionize the industry. You can suck 'em and suck 'em and suck 'em, and they’ll never get any smaller. Never. At least I don’t think they do. A few more tests. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/23 "2024-01-14T19:24:22Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > It would need to be recharged somehow but it could be solar powered (presumably, one wouldn’t have it in the mouth _all_ the time). Speak for yourself. I’m getting my quarter’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/24 "2024-01-16T09:54:57Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > […] if you wanted the gobstopper to taste of mint or snozzberry […] Snozzberry?! Who’s ever heard of a snozzberry? ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/25 "2024-01-21T04:18:53Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I thought the 1971 movie dealt with this quite subtly by depicting the everlasting gobstopper as something that would be uncomfortable to put in your mouth. It lasts forever because it hurts to use it. That’s what I was remembering from the Gene Wilder movie, as well. It looked like a couple star-shaped chunks of hard candy that were mashed together to make sure the pointy parts would be sure to injure a mouth. I also remember someone started making and distributing an “Everlasting Gobstopper” and seeing them in the candy aisle of the local 7-Elevens. They were clearly marketed on the heels of the television re-release of the Gene Wilder version and were vastly popular for a few months. But they weren’t the pointy mouth-manglers from the movie, instead they were sugary spheres – what the British and Canadians called Gobstoppers and USA residents call Jaw-Breakers – made of many different-colored layers of tasteless sugar. I remember getting two of them, finishing one, and thinking “Yep. The other one won’t get any smaller, because I’m not even going to bother unwrapping it!” –G! And Sammy Davis Jr. made a remarkable hit with his cover of “The Candy Man” ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/26 "2024-01-21T16:18:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Mangetout](#): > > > > Even if it did, that would only get you the sensation of sweet, salty, bitter etc. if you wanted the gobstopper to taste of mint or snozzberry, those parts of the taste sensation are happening in the nasal cavity - > > I don’t think a gobstopper would fit in there. Well, not with that attitude. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/27 "2024-01-21T16:41:26Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > > [@Mangetout](#): > > > > > > Even if it did, that would only get you the sensation of sweet, salty, bitter etc. if you wanted the gobstopper to taste of mint or snozzberry, those parts of the taste sensation are happening in the nasal cavity - > > > > I don’t think a gobstopper would fit in there. > > Well, not with that attitude. - Hey, _they’re_ the one who won’t hold still. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/28 "2024-01-21T18:16:55Z")
Oh you guys are killin’ me. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/29 "2024-01-28T06:18:00Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > Assuming suitably advanced gustatory stimulation, you could simulate a turkey dinner, although you would still feel hungry afterwards. To get rid of those you’d need a brain/computer interface, as HMHW suggests. Eventually we’d all starve to death happy. Or you’d turn into a blueberry. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059/30 "2024-01-28T06:20:06Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > > [@Mangetout](#): > > > > […] if you wanted the gobstopper to taste of mint or snozzberry […] > > Snozzberry?! Who’s ever heard of a snozzberry? I have, but if _The BFG_ was accurate, they’re not very pleasant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-everlasting-gobstopper-existed-how-could-it-be-best-used/996059.md?page=1)