Oompas
Oompas, now discontinued, were candy produced under the Willy Wonka brand name.
The candy produced in the late 1970s/early 1980s were similar to today's peanut butter M&M's though bigger. Under the candy coating was a candy disk of one-half peanut butter, and one half chocolate. For a time, they were available in a chocolate and strawberry (instead of peanut butter) variety.
In the early 2000s, Wonka, now a Nestlé subsidiary, revived the brand name for a chewy Skittles-like candy that came in a variety of fruit flavors: Green Apple, Cherry, Lemon, Orange, Grape, and Strawberry. The UK version had a different, more eccentric flavour variety: jam doughnut, rhubarb and custard, snozzberry (mixed fruit), popcorn, caterpillar (cucumber) and mashed potato.
They were named after The Oompa-Loompas from the Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, from which the Wonka company takes its name.
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