Today: National Fortune Cookie Day
Good wishes to all! 3 Billion cookies are made per year in the U.S.
Talk about a fun messaging method — these sugary, crispy delights of flour, sugar, vanilla and sesame seed oil hold vagaue prophecies ~~
What can be more fun when out for dinner than concluding the meal with the tradition of the fortune cookie? The English search for the penny in the plum pudding, but this is much more fun, says this Brit girl.
Do you go around the table and read?
Do you share only with a close confidante? (adding a spicy ‘in bed’ at the end?)
Do you abide by the Rule of the Fortune Cookie?
The Rule of the Fortune Cookie
After reading you must not tell a soul your fortune. Eat your cookie and put paper on fire for it to come true.
History, according to legend says this messaging method started with a Chinese-American David (Tsung) Jung who owned / operated Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles. He stuffed cookies with passages from the bible and handed them out to unemployed people outside his bakery in 1918.
~~ If there is no fortune in a fortune cookie, it is a sign that something good will happen to you soon.
I wish I had been eating fortune cookies like mad all week, before the PowerBall winning ticket was pulled.
Globally, fortune cookies are eaten in Britain, Mexico, Italy and France too.
My favorite is:
‘If you eat something and nobody sees you eat it, it has no calories.’
The Library of Congress folks say that this may have stated in Japan. The Japanese version do not have Chinese lucky numbers and were eaten with tea.
Gilligan’s Island had the message in a bottle floating in the ocean.
So enjoy some take-out or eat in Chinese today or the coming days.
From fortune cookies — to smoke signals — to love notes under your pillow there are many methods to messaging. The more the merrier!
‘Make love your flawless moral compass.’
Gracias on this beautiful summer day.
Jan
Did “Chinese” for my monthly lunch with my 91yr old Mom, a few days ago .... her fortune was rather funny ( but she didn’t get the joke) ... and mine --- do something unusual tomorrow --- I did! Next morning, asked my wife to shave my face with the electric shaver (its noise absolutely drives her crazy) ... but she accepted the challenge ... about 5mins into the shaving ... we just started laughing .... and laughing ... and laughing... and just like the feline she is, said, “ENOUGH! You finish it” ... and went back to her comfy seat on the sofa!!
A fun and cheery msg much appreciated in today’s crazy world. Thanks liz