-Devon Bealick
I love me some fortune cookies. When I go to any Chinese restaurant I make sure they give me some fortune cookies. I’ll get the take out and rifle through it just to make sure they put those cookies in there. When I eat in I don’t even ask for the check I ask for the fortune cookies. I have even done research on the subject. Did you know fortune cookies are an American invention? The real origin is a little fuzzy but Asian Americans popularized them in the twentieth century. Ironically we always eat fortune cookies with Chinese food, but actually they are based on a Japanese cookie. You see the Chinese took over the fortune cookie game around World War II when all the Japanese were in interment camps. Sometimes it is fun when reading the fortune inside the cookie and adding in bed to the end of the phrase. For example, “You will face a great challenge in the upcoming week- in bed.” I am always curious about how they decide what to put in the cookie. They are always really vague like “This week you might maybe make an extra small amount of money”. They should make them really specific like, “ next Tuesday around three o’clock you will see a woman in a blue dress, it is very important that you don’t speak to her or even make eye contact. If you follow these instructions you will make an extra thirty dollars this week.” You know how freaked out you would be around three o’clock on Tuesday when you see that woman in a blue dress- in bed.
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