Yeah, our fav “Chinese” restaurant suddenly had fortune cookies with black or red strips full of ads on one side & inane, insane “sayings” & too many “lucky numbers”! We don’t even eat them any more, their wrapper tastes better than they do!!!
Fun piece of Trivia: As far back as the 1870s, some confectionary shops near Kyoto, Japan carried a cracker with the same folded shape and a fortune tucked into the bend, instead of its hollow inside. It’s called the “tsujiura senbei,” or “fortune cracker”.
The Japanese cracker was larger and darker, made with sesame and miso instead of the vanilla and butter used to flavor fortune cookies found in modern Chinese restaurants in America.
Between the 1880s and early 1900s, after the Chinese Exclusion Act’s expulsion of Chinese workers left a demand for cheap labor, a lot of Japanese moved to Hawaii and California. Japanese bakers set up shop in places such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, making miso and sesame-flavored “fortune cookie-ish” crackers, among other treats. The origin of the current American Version is in dispute with several people claiming credit for the new recipe in the early 1900s but, at some point, one or more of them altered the recipe for the cookies to the butter & vanilla recipe best known today.
nicka93 almost 3 years ago
Sometimes the fortune tastes better than the cookie, just saying.
P51Strega almost 3 years ago
When we were kids we’d play secret agent at Chinese restaurants. I’d read my “secret message” and then eat it.
WaitingMan almost 3 years ago
Boy, am I old. I remember when fortune cookies had actual fortunes in them. These days, it’s just platitudes and lottery numbers.
LadyPeterW almost 3 years ago
Yeah, our fav “Chinese” restaurant suddenly had fortune cookies with black or red strips full of ads on one side & inane, insane “sayings” & too many “lucky numbers”! We don’t even eat them any more, their wrapper tastes better than they do!!!
poppacapsmokeblower almost 3 years ago
I once heard the fortune will only come true if you eat the fortune cookie without opening it. You internalize the fortune … or was it ingest?
Sisyphos almost 3 years ago
Sorry about that, Karma, but it’s, you know, karma….
bakana almost 3 years ago
Fun piece of Trivia: As far back as the 1870s, some confectionary shops near Kyoto, Japan carried a cracker with the same folded shape and a fortune tucked into the bend, instead of its hollow inside. It’s called the “tsujiura senbei,” or “fortune cracker”.
The Japanese cracker was larger and darker, made with sesame and miso instead of the vanilla and butter used to flavor fortune cookies found in modern Chinese restaurants in America.
Between the 1880s and early 1900s, after the Chinese Exclusion Act’s expulsion of Chinese workers left a demand for cheap labor, a lot of Japanese moved to Hawaii and California. Japanese bakers set up shop in places such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, making miso and sesame-flavored “fortune cookie-ish” crackers, among other treats. The origin of the current American Version is in dispute with several people claiming credit for the new recipe in the early 1900s but, at some point, one or more of them altered the recipe for the cookies to the butter & vanilla recipe best known today.
Dave459 almost 3 years ago
Last one I got said “That wasn’t chicken”
Dave459 almost 3 years ago
Also, read the fortune out loud and add the words “in bed” to the end.
Bradley Walker almost 3 years ago
“What’s worse than finding a worm in an apple?”