If there is no fortune in a fortune cookie, it is
a sign that something good will happen to you soon
. (Because fortune-cookie-fairy owes you one fortune.)
This particular fortune cookie factory produces four million cookies per day, and uses 5,000 different fortunes, which means that each fortune printed is going to be duplicated
800 times per day
.
As for predicting the future, no,
fortune cookies don’t have special powers of foresight
. The fortune cookie you open at a Chinese restaurant came into your hands randomly. If it happens to contain a fortune that comes true, it’s just coincidence. Besides, many fortunes don’t even predict the future.
You’ve provably heard people talk about the bad fortunes they found inside fortune cookies. … Turns out, these
fortunes are simply the victims of bad translation
.
According to Grub Street Boston “empty fortune cookies belong to the lucky”, but according to Wiki Answers “
you may have bad luck for the rest of your life
“. urbandictionary.com shows “empty fortune cookie” as an adjective: 1) impotent, 2) a failure at life.
If there is no fortune in a fortune cookie, it is
a sign that something good will happen to you soon
. (Because fortune-cookie-fairy owes you one fortune.)
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.
Multiple North Carolina Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets are seen in October 2018. (CNN) When Florida resident
Ernesto Sorzano
picked up his fried rice and shrimp from a Chinese takeout, he got a fortune cookie that would change his life.
What are the numbers on a Chinese fortune cookie? Chinese culture has its own lucky numbers — including 6, 8, and 9 — but these are based on the fact that the word for the numbers sounds similar to other positive Chinese words, so
it’s more a case of good luck by association
.
Simply put, they no longer tell fortunes
because the family-run companies that dominate this business cannot keep up with demand
. Yet that doesn’t spoil the fun of fortune cookies. Some companies create “adult” messages, and a few allow patrons to create their own fortunes.
The edible portion of a fortune cookie contains approximately 20 calories in an 8-ounce serving, according to Panda Express. Although the calorie count is not huge, you also forgo consuming a healthy food —
fortune cookies offer little to no nutritional value.
While it is technically a dessert served primarily in Chinese restaurants, the fortune cookie has a layered meaning beyond other confectionary due to its distinctive shape and its hidden paper slip inscribed with a fortune. The cookie symbolizes
luck, fate, soundbite Chinese wisdom, and the mysteries of the unknown.
Word forms: fortune cookies. countable noun. A fortune cookie is a sweet, crisp cookie which contains a piece of paper which is supposed to say what will happen to you in the future.
A cookie has a cookie batter that has been folded into the shape of a fortune cookie, with a piece of
edible paper
housed inside the folded cookie, the edible paper having a fortune written thereon in a non-toxic edible ink.
- I break the fortune cookie in half and pull it apart.
- I set aside the half that retains the fortune and eat the other half.
- I then read the fortune. If I like it, I eat the remaining half. If not, I discard it.
