For my ward’s New Year’s Eve camping trip, I got a few boxes of fortune cookies from the Taegu commissary. The ward’s children loved them. I think that’s because I told them how they’re eaten (crack open first, remove the paper, then eat the cookie) but they didn’t relay that information to the Bishop (poor guy got a mouthful of paper) and also because fortune cookies aren’t a big item in Korea (or China, for that matter). The older kids enjoyed the fortunes too. I had to translate many of them, though. For the next activity, we’re making our own cookies with church-related fortunes in Korean.
But the experience of translating them got me to wondering: “How many different fortunes are there for this brand and what are they anyway?”
Anyone know? The brand is one of those that provides the “semi-authentic” prepared Chinese foods in the US. I can’t recall the name at the moment.
Was it the “Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory”? Fortune cookies were invented in California (both San Francisco and LA lay claim) and most continue to be manufactured there I think.
As an aside, I like fortune cookies that actually provide something that can be interpreted as a fortune or foretelling of fate or destiny like, “You will meet a new friend.”
I hate “description cookies” that say things like, “You are a wonderful person.”
I’m sure that’s not the name of the brand. Oh, well. I’ll be at the Yongsan Commissary tomorrow and can only hope they have the same in stock. I bought out the entire supply (yep, grand total of four boxes of 12 cookies each) at the Taegu DECA.
All I remember is that the brand name is one of those for the Americanized Chinese home cooking kit meals.
Um. Yeah, I do go to the movies and read a book here and there. Thanks for letting me know.
And I often don’t read the fortunes… I eat them whole, cookie and paper together (yes, I’ve already heard “That explains it”, so hold off) in reference to that same funny belief a good friend of mine had in the third grade.
Anyone else gotten a blank one? I don’t mean missing, I mean a blank sheet of paper. That was kinda unsettling!
We always read ours aloud, and I’ve taken to flipping mine over for the lucky numbers and “reading”: “4 8 15 16 23 42” The first time, it freaked my kid out. Now I just do it to amuse myself.
I have always thought it would be great to have some fortune cookies custom-made with negative messages, and secretly sneak them onto people plates as jokes.
