i-candy
Explanation
This comic shows a man on the phone with what appears to be a hotel front desk, methodically describing the entire supply chain and production process required to make M&M-style candy. He requests farms for growing sugar cane, cacao, and dairy cows. He specifies that the agricultural inputs need to be processed and flowed to a single candy production facility. He then demands that individual peanuts be shelled, coated in chocolate, and enclosed in half-millimeter-thick candy shells in bright, primary colors. Finally, he wants several dozen placed in a dainty yet biodegradable bag that fits snugly in his hand.
In the final panels, a hotel employee walks down a hallway and relays the request: "In the machine, down the hall. Very, very good. Very good then." The man at the end exclaims: "Three dollars for M&Ms?!"
The joke is about the absurd disconnect between how much effort goes into producing a bag of candy and how outraged consumers are at paying a few dollars for it. When you describe the full production chain — agriculture, processing, manufacturing, packaging — the sheer complexity of delivering a bag of M&Ms is staggering. Yet the man who just unwittingly described this Herculean process is shocked at a $3 price tag. The comic satirizes consumer expectations and the way we take for granted the extraordinary infrastructure behind cheap everyday products.