The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things

J. K. Rowling
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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food. ✨ J.K. Rowling (2015). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, p.33, Pottermore
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