Gene Wilder made countless kids (and adults) wish they could find a golden ticket in real life, getting access to a too-fantastical-to-be-real chocolate factory full of cocoa rivers, lollipop trees and snozzberry wallpaper that, indeed, tastes like snozzberries. He also rocked a burnt orange top hat with panache—and spawned countless riffs on the "condescending Willy Wonka" meme. It's so mainstream your mom might have even sent you one the last time you Instagrammed a pic of your lifestyle blogger-chic avocado toast. And that's not even touching his work outside of the world author Roald Dahl created.
So how do you honor the late actor, who passed away this past August? Bar Luca, in Sydney, Australia, is paying tribute to the man—and one of his most iconic roles—with Wonka Week. Each day, the restaurant's posted a limited-edition menu item inspired by the film, starting with a psychadelic Beauregard Burger.
The rainbow milk bun is every bit as colorful as last summer's viral hit, the rainbow bagel, and is meant to recreate the three-course-meal-in-bubblegum-form that Violet Beauregard ate in the book/movie, according to Thrillist. The original candy went from tasting like tomato soup to roast beef to blueberry pie, and the burger is a nod to those three flavors: The beef patty's topped with tomato soup jelly, fried potatoes and blueberry onion jam—and, in a quirky nod to Wonka's hijinks, a "popping" cheese.
Fizzling cheddar sure beats turning into a human blueberry, that's for sure. The burger will set you back $16—plus the cost of a plane trip, if you don't live in Oz—and is only available until Sept. 11. But, when you order one, you could win Bar Luca's version of a golden ticket, which grants you and a friend a free burger and drink, according to the restaurant's Facebook post. The restaurant's giving out 16 total, and of those, one person will be awarded the grand prize: A keychain that grants you a free burger every time you walk through the door for the next year.
You can witness the delivery of a golden ticket here:
Keeping Wonka Week going, the Bar's also created a freakshake—and the freakshake equivalent of a cocktail. First, the Augustus Bloop, a "Blooberry" milkshake covered in whipped cream, sour candy straps, Nerds and garnished with a lollipop.
And, in line with Wonka's famous line, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," the bar's also selling the Wonky Sour, a cocktail that looks partially inspired by an Oompa Loompa...or a troll doll. It's a sugary sweet blend of vanilla vodka, Cointreau, bubblegum syrup, egg white and lemon juice (just to balance out all the saccharine, we suppose). The drink itself is rimmed in rainbow nonpareils, then topped with "fairy floss"—think cotton candy, only stringier—and a maraschino cherry.
Clearly, it's a menu made of pure imagination...and sugar. Lots of sugar.
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