Another of the horrid children nearly done in by Willy Wonka mad science is named Violet Beauregarde, who has a bad habit of excessive gum chewing. She seizes a piece of experimental chewing gum –billed by Wonka as “a whole meal in a stick” — and promptly starts chewing it. That would seem to be a violation of experimental safety protocols. That is, if Wonka’s factory had such a thing as safety protocols.
Things go swimmingly for Violet until the end, where the blueberry pie part of the meal produces a certain side effect. In the 1971 version:
Violet blows up like a blueberry. Fetish fuel for a new generation:
Why fetish fuel? Well, as it turns out, there is actually a fetish for body inflation. I’ve written about it some at ErosBlog before and there’s a decent discussion of it also in Agnès Giard‘s Le sexe bizarre (on pp. 116-7, under the subhead “J’ai le cœur qui fait boum”) And Violet’s experience even inspired a bit of a fetishistic comic book called The Adventures of Berrygirl, in which an unsupecting college coed is slipped a bit of Wonka’s not-quite-perfected gum and…
You can find more of the story at this body-inflation page.