No, the Wonka float at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade won’t be edible

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is considered one of our funniest vacation traditions, a kitschy paean to commercialism that’s the solely place I can consider the place you could find Goku, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Jolly Green Giant all in the identical place, cheerily launched by Al Roker. Part of the enjoyable is in seeing who made the minimize, and who, sadly, didn’t. (Someday, Vegeta…)

One of this 12 months’s additions will be a float impressed by the forthcoming movie Wonka, starring Paul Atreides Timothée Chalamet. The “Deliciously Delectable World of Wonka” float will characteristic “delicately detailed and delectable confections adorning the shop’s counters that line the way to a majestic cherry tree,” with illuminated sweet jars that “contain approximately 592,000 pieces of prop candy.”

Prop sweet is an fascinating phrase, and may be taken considered one of two methods. The first, much less preferable method, is “prop” as in “fake,” that means candy-shaped and -colored objects solely appropriate for wanting. However, it’s additionally attainable that “prop candy” on this context means “real, edible candy being used as a prop,” which might each rule and be lore-accurate to Willy Wonka’s oeuvre.

Since I might stay awake a wink between immediately and Thanksgiving until I knew the reply, I reached out to representatives of the joint pursuits of Warner Bros. and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, with one query: Is the prop sweet edible?

Friends, I’ve horrible information: Per a PR rep, it’s not, “but the cart on the side will have edible treats for the public.”

Image: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade/Warner Bros.

Reader beware: If you see the Wonka float anytime between now and Thanksgiving (or afterward, I don’t know what they do with these when the parade is over) don’t eat it.