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The fortune cookie is a lie
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I just got the greatest fortune ever; "a nice cake is waiting for you".
I'd love to meet the person who comes up with these.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: blewmeanie]
#10998799 - 09/04/09 01:01 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah... sometimes you get weird ones like that.
generally they are supposed to be more cryptic or whatever. or confucius like.
we have this game in my family, which my dad plays to death, i just already understand it goes without saying.
but heres how it goes. after every fortune cookie, add the words "in bed" to the end. The results are quite funny.
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we could all use a little more sunshine.
yeah, she's funny and somewhat interesting. not a beauty queen, but not bad lookin. i'd feel quite honored to fuck janine garofalo. -tiny_rabid_birds
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my family does the same shit.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: kydelic]
#10998857 - 09/04/09 01:09 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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mmmmm bed cake.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: blewmeanie]
#10998920 - 09/04/09 01:17 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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I opened a fortune cookie today and got a double-fortune. The paper had been mis-aligned, I guess, when they were cutting them.
It says, "Your ability to accomplish tasks will be followed by success."
AND
"Your ability is appreciated."
I haven't felt this lucky since I opened that double-yolked egg.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: Fiftyfour]
#10999095 - 09/04/09 01:51 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'd love to meet the person who comes up with these.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: Arden]
#10999106 - 09/04/09 01:53 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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'healthy teeth are elusive... in bed"
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: Arden]
#10999325 - 09/04/09 02:40 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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Arden said:
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I'd love to meet the person who comes up with these.

not to sound racist, but thats what is refered to as a UFO. an ugly fucking oriental.
dont worry i am sure i can find some ugly folks of other races too.
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we could all use a little more sunshine.
yeah, she's funny and somewhat interesting. not a beauty queen, but not bad lookin. i'd feel quite honored to fuck janine garofalo. -tiny_rabid_birds
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Quote:
not to sound racist, but thats what is refered to as a UFO. an ugly fucking oriental.
dont worry i am sure i can find some ugly folks of other races too.
Compare the cheek bones and jaw lines.
He has both the ring, and fortune-bringing one-liners.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: Arden]
#11001661 - 09/04/09 10:04 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yessssssss my precccioussssss!!!
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I got one that simply said "It tastes sweet." at one point...
I wasn't sure how to take that.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: blewmeanie]
#11001673 - 09/04/09 10:09 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah...I just got one today that said: "when all you've got isa hammer - everything looks likea nail"
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Quote:
AereolaBorialis said: I got one that simply said "It tastes sweet." at one point...
I wasn't sure how to take that.
lol thats almost creepy.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: DimensionX]
#11001770 - 09/04/09 10:38 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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"when all you've got isa hammer - everything looks likea nail"
Abraham Maslow quote I believe.
But what happens when all you have is a screw driver?
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: Arden]
#11001882 - 09/04/09 11:01 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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Arden said: Abraham Maslow quote I believe.
But what happens when all you have is a screw driver?
Drink it down & ask the bartender for another.
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Quote:
thirdeyeparable said:
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Arden said: Abraham Maslow quote I believe.
But what happens when all you have is a screw driver?
Drink it down & ask the bartender for another. 
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Last week I ordered some Chinese food. I was looking at two fortune cookies trying to pick the right one for about 20 seconds... I opened it and it said "pick another fortune cookie", I got scared and threw it out
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: cyb3rtr0n]
#11002503 - 09/05/09 01:22 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
"when all you've got isa hammer - everything looks likea nail"
But what happens when all you have is a screw driver?
If all you have is a screw driver, then you want to screw everything.
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: Arden]
#11002520 - 09/05/09 01:27 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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The fortune cookie was invented in Los Angeles.
Suck on that, China!
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Re: The fortune cookie is a lie [Re: DeeGee]
#11002544 - 09/05/09 01:31 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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Because this thread is about Fortune Cookies, I don't feel bad with a little topic-appropriate spam. God bless the folks who felt compelled to make a wiki for the Fortune Cookie. May a hundred one-liners bless their dinner plates.
Fortune cookie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Fortune Cookies" redirects here. For other uses, see Fortune Cookies (disambiguation). Fortune cookie
A fortune cookie
An opened fortune cookie Traditional Chinese 1. 幸運簽語餅 2. 幸福餅乾 3. 占卜餅 Simplified Chinese 1. 幸运签语饼 2. 幸福饼干 3. 占卜饼 [show]Transliterations A fortune cookie is a crisp Asian American cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside. A "fortune" is a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy. In the United States and Canada (although also available in other parts of the Western world), it is usually served with Chinese food in Chinese restaurants as a dessert. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation. The exact provenance of fortune cookies is unclear, but various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century, basing their recipe on a traditional Japanese cracker.[1] The cookies are mostly unknown in mainland China or Taiwan. Contents [hide] 1 Origin 1.1 Chinese legend 2 Etymology 3 In popular culture 4 Manufacturers 5 Around the world 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links [edit]Origin
As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the American Fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan, and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called omikuji. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion.[1] Most of the people who claim to have introduced the cookie to the United States are Japanese, so the theory is that these bakers were modifying a cookie design which they were aware of from their days in Japan. Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in America to have served the American version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in 1890s or early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.[2][3][4] David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918.[5] San Francisco's mock Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a key piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. Not Very Smart Cookie". A federal judge of the Court of Historical Review determined that the cookie originated with Hagiwara and the court ruled in favor of San Francisco. Subsequently, the city of Los Angeles condemned the decision.[5] Seiichi Kito, the founder of Fugetsu-do of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, also claims to have invented the cookie.[6] Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from Omikuji (fortune slip) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Thus Kito's main claim is that he is responsible for the cookie being so strongly associated with Chinese restaurants.[citation needed] Up to around World War II, fortune cookies were known as "fortune tea cakes" -- likely reflecting their origins in Japanese tea cakes. It later became known as a "fortune cooky" before settling on the current spelling of "fortune cookie."[1] Fortune cookies moved from being a confection dominated by Japanese-Americans to one dominated by Chinese-Americans sometime around World War II. One theory for why this occurred is because of the Japanese American internment during World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies. This gave an opportunity for Chinese manufacturers.[1] Fortune cookies before the early 20th century, however, were all made by hand. The fortune cookie industry changed dramatically after the fortune cookie machine was invented by Shuck Yee from Oakland, California.[7] The machine allowed for mass production of fortune cookies which subsequently allowed the cookies to drop in price to become the novelty and courtesy dessert many Americans are familiar with after their meals at most Chinese restaurants today. [edit]Chinese legend Although fortune cookies are a modern invention, there's a circulated legend that attempts to link a possible origin from Chinese history. According to this legend, in the 14th century, when the Mongols ruled China, a revolutionary named Chu Yuan Chang planned an uprising against them. He used mooncakes to pass along the date of the uprising to the Chinese by replacing the yolk in the center of the mooncake with the message written on rice paper. The Mongols did not care for the yolks, so the plan went on successfully and the Ming Dynasty began. It is claimed that the Moon Festival celebrates this with the tradition of giving mooncakes with messages inside. Immigrant Chinese railroad workers, without the ingredients to make regular mooncakes, made biscuits instead. It is these biscuits that may have later inspired fortune cookies.[8] [edit]Etymology
The cookies are generally called by the English term fortune cookies, even by Chinese Americans, as there is no standard Chinese term for them. In the Chinese language, however, fortune cookie has been translated variously as 幸运签饼 xìngyùn qiān bǐng "good luck label cookie", 签语饼 qiān yǔ bǐng "label-words cookie", 幸运饼 xìngyùn bǐng "good luck cookie", 幸运签语饼 xìngyùn qiān yǔ bǐng "lucky label-words cookie", 幸运甜饼 xìngyùn tián bǐng "good luck sweet cookie", 幸福饼干 xìngfú bǐnggān "happiness [dry] cookie", 幸运饼干 xìngyùn bǐnggān "good luck [dry] cookie", 幸运饼 xìngyùn bǐng "good luck cookie", 幸运籤语饼 xìngyùn qiān yǔ bǐng "good luck label-words cookie", or 占卜饼 zhānbǔ bǐng "divine cookie". [edit]In popular culture
Hot fortune cookies being folded around paper fortunes. The non-Chinese origin of the fortune cookie is humorously illustrated in Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club, in which a pair of Chinese immigrant women find jobs at a fortune cookie factory in America. They are amused by the unfamiliar concept of a fortune cookie but, after several hilarious attempts at translating the fortunes into Chinese, come to the conclusion that the cookies contain not wisdom, but "bad instruction." Fortune cookies have become an iconic symbol in American culture, inspiring many products. There is fortune cookie-shaped jewelry, a fortune cookie-shaped Magic 8 Ball, silver-plated fortune cookies. There is a common joke involving fortune cookies that involves appending "between the sheets" or "in bed" to the end of the fortune, usually creating a sexual innuendo or other bizarre messages (e.g., "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall [in bed]").[9] Although many people do not take the message in a fortune cookie as a serious oracular device, many of them consider it part of the game that the entire cookie must be consumed in order for the fortune to come true.[10] Variations on this idea include not eating the cookie if a fortune seems unlucky, or the idea that the entire cookie must be eaten before the fortune is read. Or conversely, the fortune must be read before any of the cookie is eaten. Some people believe the fortune will not come true if it is read aloud, or read at all. Other people follow rules involving how the cookie is selected -- including selecting a cookie with closed eyes, passing a cookie to another person at the table, or choosing the cookie that seems to be pointing directly at you.[original research?] [edit]Manufacturers
There are approximately 3 billion fortune cookies made each year around the world, the vast majority of them used for consumption in the United States.[1] The largest manufacturer of the cookies is Wonton Food, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. They make over 4.5 million fortune cookies per year.[1] Another large manufacturer is Peking Noodle in the Los Angeles area. There are other smaller, local manufacturers including Tsue Chong Co. in Seattle and Sunrise Fortune Cookie in Philadelphia. Many smaller companies will also sell custom fortunes. [edit]Around the world
Fortune cookies, while largely an American item, are occasionally seen in other countries, most often at Chinese restaurants. Fortune cookies have been distributed in India, Brazil, Mexico, Britain, and France.[1] [edit]See also
fortune (Unix) [edit]Notes
^ a b c d e f g Lee, Jennifer 8. (January 16, 2008). "Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie" The New York Times. Retrieved on January 16, 2008. ^ Nagata, Erik. "A Brief History of The Fortune Cookie". ^ Ono, Gary (2007-10-31). "Japanese American Fortune Cookie: A Taste of Fame or Fortune -- Part II". ^ (Martin 2004) ^ a b (Brunner 2005). ^ A History of Fugetsu-Do, www.fugetsu-do.com ^ Oaklandish ^ Fortune Cookie History ^ "Creating a takeout menu for Lunar New Year" by Phil Vettel, Chicago Tribune, January 21, 2005, "Friday" section, page 19. (Describing "the 'in bed' game.") Also, "'To know is nothing; to imagine is everything' - social ritual and meaning in the consumption of fortune cookies," by Ellen R Foxman; Mary Stanfield Bradley. American Marketing Association. Conference Proceedings. 2002; Vol.13; page 98 (at page 101). ^ (Parvin 1995). [edit]References
Martin, James (2004), "Fortune Cookies: A San Francisco Invention", About.com. Brunner, Borgna (2005), "The History of the Fortune Cookie", Infoplease Lee, Jennifer 8. (2008). The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. New York City: Twelve Books. ISBN 0446580074. Parvin, Ellie (1995), "Fortune cookie US invention", Golden Gater. Retrieved on May 24, 2006.
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