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A dessert that moonlights as a life coach, badly, in fifteen words or less.
means A crisp, hollow cookie folded around a small slip of paper printed with a fortune, proverb, or vague prediction, typically served after a meal at Chinese-American restaurants.
from Despite its menu placement, the fortune cookie isn't really Chinese — it's most likely Japanese in origin, descended from a similar senbei cracker called tsujiura senbei, folded around a fortune slip and sold near temples in Kyoto generations before the dessert turned up in California. Japanese immigrants are widely credited with introducing it to the U.S. in the early 20th century, where Chinese-American restaurants later adopted and popularized it, so thoroughly that most people assume it crossed the Pacific from the wrong country.
- origin
- invented in America, not China
- inventor dispute
- claimed by both LA and SF bakers
- lottery glitch
- numbers once caused 110 Powerball winners same night
- add-on humor
- adding in bed makes everything funnier