Life is a Candy

Upon walking back to work after a delicious and mostly free lunch at the Prudential (hurray coupons for free chips and salsa at Qdoba!) I happened to pass a lady wearing a shirt with some rather strange wordage. On her very pink shirt read some white lettering stating quite frankly, "Life is a Candy."

Thanks to my HARDCORE Microsoft Paint skills, i have created a mock-up here for you. As if imagining a pink shirt with the simple words, "Life is a Candy" were all that hard without the image. Just in case, here you go.
Anyway, for a moment, I thought I had misread. After all, life is NOT a candy. It's not even two candies or candy plural. Or chocolate or Cheetos or any other food item. And although thanks to a very overrated film of the 90s, everyone's familiar with the phrase, "life is like a box of chocolates," this is so far from any sort of logical phrase that I can't begin to imagine what it might mean.

I'm required by law to add another observation, one that supports my concerns of the past (to be explained shortly), I could probably safely assume this woman was a foreigner. The Prudential here in Boston sees its fair share of foreigners, so I don't think my assumption was incorrect. I love foreigners, well done visiting or moving to Boston... but whether or not she was indeed from elsewhere doesn't change the fact that her shirt read "Life is a Candy," which I refuse to believe is not strange. But it DOES support my great suspicion that we sold some sad country a shirt that is grammatically quite odd and nonsensical. It also further supports my long-standing concern (here it is finally!) that those earrings and shirts and hats and other miscellaneous paraphernalia, in a foreign language or foreign characters (like the often-seen chinese) that are sold in english-speaking countries, really don't say "Happiness," or "I love Harry Potter," or "Life is Good." But rather, they boldly read, "I'm hungry," or "Harry Potter hates me," or "Life is a horse," so that when those who speak the language pass you by, they can laugh to themselves and think, silly american, way to not know what your shirt says. hahaha. Just like i thought to myself, woah, I wonder if that lady knows that life is a candy is the worst metaphor ever?!

So here's my question for YOU. Is there some widespread or up-and-coming "Life is a Candy" t-shirt or billboard campaign going on that I've somehow failed to observe until now? Is this some major clothing company's new slogan? What could the possible meanings of "Life is a Candy" be, other than, "Life is Sweet," "Life is Pretty Suggary," "Life Can Rot Your Teeth," etcetera? Or do you think I simply misread the shirt (doubtful!)?

Questions? Comments? Concerns? You must let me know. You weren't aware, but you're under contract to do so.

Hearts and Procrastination,
And-er-pooch