Some 3 billion fortune cookies are made each year, almost all in the United States. But the crisp cookies wrapped around enigmatic sayings have spread around the world. They are served in Chinese restaurants in Britain, Mexico, Italy, France and elsewhere. In India, they taste more like butter cookies. A surprisingly high number of winning tickets in Brazil’s national lottery in 2004 were traced to lucky numbers from fortune cookies distributed by a Chinese restaurant chain called Chinatown.
But there is one place where fortune cookies are conspicuously absent: China.
Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie, by Jennifer 8. Lee. (gotta love that middle name). Watch the video.
(image by Ko Sasaki for The New York Times)
I like that the cookie in this image looks like two big hams. Because I think a fortune ham would rock. Kinda looks like crescent rolls, too, but a fortune crescent roll wouldn’t be nearly as cool as a fortune ham.
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Jan 17th, 2008 / 3:02 am