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Candi's Nuts: Come in the morning each day
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 30 2022
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Candi makes candied nuts. From scratch. Every morning. She does not cut corners, she does not use shortcuts, and the consistency of her product has generated a word-of-mouth following in the neighborhood that frankly exceeds what most small businesses achieve in their first year of operation. The neighbors know about Candi's nuts. The people at her partner's workplace have heard about them. Word is spreading. This book documents the growth of Candi's nut enterprise with the sincere enthusiasm of a business success story and absolutely nothing else going on at all.
Adult parody humor that sustains a single premise across an entire illustrated book without one moment of actual explicitness is harder to pull off than it sounds, and this book manages it completely. Every sentence is about nuts. Every illustration depicts nuts. The entire narrative arc concerns the production and distribution of Candi's nuts. Anyone reading anything else into this story is doing so entirely on their own, which is their right and also their problem, and they should probably think about why.
This Book IS For:- Adults who appreciate a sustained comedic premise that gets funnier with each page instead of burning out at the setup
- Anyone who has had to maintain a straight face through a sentence that should have required more effort than it got
- Fans of humor that operates entirely within plausible deniability while being completely implausible
- Gift-givers who want to watch a person read something, process it, look up, and be unable to say what they're thinking
- Entrepreneurs who feel fictional small business owners deserve to be portrayed without ulterior narrative layers
- People who heard the title, formed an opinion, and are prepared to share that opinion with anyone who will listen
- Readers who find escalating repetition in humor exhausting rather than deeply, correctly satisfying
- Anyone who would Google Candi's Nuts in public without considering the results or their environment
- Bachelorette parties... this one is practically mandatory and you already know why
- White elephant exchanges where winning means the story of your gift being retold at the next event
- Office holiday parties in offices where HR has either loosened its standards or briefly stepped out
- Gag gifts for anyone in a profession where professional language occasionally creates unintentional comedy
Somewhere right now, someone is buying a gift that will produce a polite smile, a quiet thank you, and a spot in the regifting pile by February. You do not have to be that person. You can buy this book, hand it to someone at a party, and watch their face travel through a very specific journey that takes ninety seconds and ends somewhere between laughter and genuine concern about what just happened to them.
Candi put the work in. She bakes from scratch. She does not cut corners. She deserves customers who appreciate the full scope of her enterprise. Buy the book, understand the business, and accept that a gift this affordable has no business producing this much entertainment value. And yet here we are, every morning, Candi's nuts arriving right on schedule.
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