Jane's World by Paige Braddock for April 02, 2014

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    margueritem  over 10 years ago

    Snerk!!

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    svetlana17  over 10 years ago

    Ummm, Paige. No fortune cookies at Japanese restaurants! Good story line, wrong restaurant.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Actually, though I’ve never gotten a fortune cookie in a Japanese restaurant, the wafer itself is Japanese type, but theirs are savory…. you can buy small, flat ones in bags at Japanese markets.

    Even folding in a paper fortune supposedly started in Japan….

    The modern, sweet version was invented in the US.

    I’ve read that before WWII, they were served in Chinese and Japanese restaurants, notably the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco.

    There could be some hip, eclectic little Japanese restaurant around here that serves them….

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    chutkt6  over 10 years ago

    I think the way the fortune cookies are placed on the plate is meant to be suggestive. Dorothy and Jane “in bed” could be an interesting comic panel or two! We don’t have to be graphic, necessarily…..

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    klunker rider  over 10 years ago

    Fortune cookies are from Japan, they are from Kyoto and called o-mikuji and came to the US in the 1st half of the 20th century with Japanese emigres and were often found at Japanese restaurants and stores. But when WW2 broke out and all Japanese Americans were interned, the Chinese moved in to fill the restaurant gap and the bakers were happy to keep selling fortune cookies now to the Chinese restaurants and in time spawned a new tradition here in the US.

    …and Jane really is seriously clueless, she wouldn’t get a hint if you ran her over with it.

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    ermaltwo  over 10 years ago

    we get them at our local Vietnamese noodle shop…in bed

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    Starman1948  over 10 years ago

    Very interesting. Tomorrow’s comic should be more enlightening. (I hope.LOL.)

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    Urbane Gorilla  over 10 years ago

    I think Dot’s getting tipsy.

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    david black Premium Member over 10 years ago

    hey everyone and Vic – your and the other response was correct – or so i am being led to beleive. heard an interview on NPR radio tonight , about chinese food and of course the fortune cookies- that the Japs served them in the resturants til as the storytell remarked, they were all rounded up and sent to the camps here in the states. was hoping i could post this before anyone else, but seems i am a bit slow in repeating radio story’s

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