What is a Snozzcumber from the BFG?
A snozzcumber is a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes. Snozzcumbers taste disgusting but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses to hunt human beans like other giants.
How do you make a Snozzcumber cake?
Method
- Cube the jelly and put in a a measuring jug. Pour over boiling water to 300ml.
- Meanwhile, put the frosting into a large bowl.
- Trim the ends of the Swiss roll into a cucumber shape.
- Make peaks in the icing with the tip of a knife and add half the pumpkin seeds as spikes.
- Spoon jelly around the cake.
How does the BFG feel about Snozzcumber?
Sophie said the Snozzcumber tasted of frogskin and rotten fish, and the BFG said it tasted like cockroaches and slime wanglers.
What does the BFG drink?
Frobscottle
Make the BFG’s favourite drink at home with this recipe for fizzing, whizzing, fantastic Frobscottle.
Does the BFG eat Snozzcumber?
Lesson Summary Since he doesn’t eat people and he won’t steal from people, the BFG has to eat snozzcumbers, the only food that grows in Giant Country. The ”icky-poo vegetable” has knobbles on the outside and large seeds on the inside.
What did The BFG call a fart?
In Giant Land, a fart is a whizzpopper. Now that The BFG is on the big screen, it’s likely the word “whizzpopper” will be creeping into the vocabularies of kids everywhere. The Giant’s word for a fart is only one element of author Roald Dahl’s made-up language, Gobblefunk.
Why does the BFG not eat?
While all the other giants in the book eat human beings, the Big Friendly Giant (BFG) is stuck eating snozzcumbers. He calls them ”rotsome” and ”foulsome,” but eats them because ”eating human beans is wrong and evil.
What does Frobscottle taste like?
It tastes of vanilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of raspberries on the edge of the flavour.” And once you have a sweet taste of Frobscottle, then comes the whizzpoppers.
What do the humans taste like BFG?
The giant goes on to name what people in different countries taste like. The Greeks taste greasy, humans from Panama taste like hats, Welsh taste fishy, humans from Jersey taste like cardigans, and the Danish taste like dogs.