Have you imagined one day getting rich by eating candies? Candy Funhouse, a Canadian candy company, is offering the very sweet job. The company, which sells from chocolate bars to soft sweets online, is hiring a $78,000 a year, work-from-home job as its Chief Candy Officer. Duties include: “leading candy board meetings, being the head taste tester… and all things fun.”
“Several thousand people have already applied,”said Chief Executive Officer Jamal Hejazi. He noted that he has been surprised by the number of applications and the videos of entire families offering to share the tasting duties.
Candy Funhouse is run by four brothers and sisters who grew up in this area. The family hoped to differ their company from others with an “unusual” mix of products, no minimum orders — “we’ll sell one candy” — and a strong push on social media. Unexpectedly, sales in 2021 were over $15 million. “I’m not kidding,” Hejazi said.
The company said the Chief Candy Officer position is open to people as young as five years old — although their parents’ agreement comes first. “Many parents have filmed their child filling out the application and posted it online. The company has 340, 000 followers on social media such as Instagram and Tik-Tok, including a Kardashian,” Hejazi said.
Hejazi also noted that reports on social media saying that the. Chief Candy Officer will be required to eat 3, 500 pieces of candy per month are incorrect. “That would be 117 a day,”
Hejazi said. “That’s too many.”
Right now, the company is preparing for Halloween, its biggest sales period last year. “We have 40% of our supply in so far,” . Hejani said. Last week, candy company Hershey reported that it will have difficulty in meeting Halloween-related demand this year.
1. What is the Chief Candy Officer required to do?A.Sell candies online. | B.Organize candy board meetings. |
C.Hire more candy testers. | D.Develop candies with new tastes. |
A.He was kidding himself. | B.Not many candies were sold. |
C.Sales were too good to be true. | D.Sales fell short of expectations. |
A.Get parental support. | B.Shoot a video. |
C.Eat enough candies. | D.Fill in the application form. |
A.Too much candy is bad for children. | B.The media is not worthy of our trust. |
C.Cooperation is important for companies. | D.Festivals are a great time for business. |
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A.The Galaxy Fold still has many problems. |
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C.The production of foldable phones will soon increase. |
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A.90 percent of their screens are not perfect. |
B.Their screens are difficult to produce. |
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D.They are not as useful as thought. |
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Kiss crisis, hug horrors and the UK's handshake headaches
Greeting someone, saying goodbye — these situations fill me with unease. You have a second to make a dangerous decision. One peck (轻吻)? Two pecks? Three? No kisses at all? Why, I think, as I crash into the other person’s face, why can’t it be as simple as a handshake?
A survey by the soap company Redox in May showed one in five Brits now feels a handshake is “too formal”, according to the Daily Mail. Some 42 percent said they never shook hands when greeting friends. For one third of people the alternative was a hug, for 16 percent a kiss on the cheek.
British people are known to be reserved (保守的) — unfriendly, some would say. Handshakes used to work for us because we didn’t have to get too close. But the super-British handshake is no longer fashionable. We want to be more like our easygoing Mediterranean neighbors who greet each other with kisses and hugs.
The trouble is, we still find it a bit awkward. What does a married man do when greeting a married female friend, for example? How should someone younger greet someone older?
Guys don’t tend to kiss one another; my male friends in Britain go for the “manly hug”, taking each other stiffly (不自然地) in one arm and giving a few thumps on the back with words like “Take it easy, yeah?”.
The biggest questions, if you do decide to kiss, are how many times and which cheek first. Unlike the French, who comfortably deliver three, our cheek-pecks usually end in embarrassed giggling (咯咯笑): “Oh, gosh, sorry, I didn’t mean to kiss you on the lips, I never know where to aim for first!”
But then it’s never been easy for us poor, uncomfortable Brits. Even the handshake had its problems: don’t shake too hard, but don’t hold the other person’s hand too limply (无力地) either, and definitely don’t go in with sweaty hands.
Maybe it’s better to leave it at a smile and a nod.
1. What is the article mainly about?A.Origin of the traditional British way of greeting someone. |
B.New trends and problems that Brits have with the way they greet people. |
C.Why the author feels uneasy when greeting someone or saying goodbye. |
D.Differences in greetings between Britain and other Western countries. |
A.It is now considered unfriendly to greet friends with a handshake in Britain. |
B.A kiss on the cheek is becoming the most popular form of greeting in Britain. |
C.Most Brits no longer offer to shake hands with those they meet. |
D.More and more Brits prefer to be greeted with a hug or kiss. |
A.not helpful | B.too informal | C.quite embarrassed | D.very interesting |
A.A hug. | B.A smile and a nod. | C.A handshake. | D.A kiss on the cheek. |