Bad Luck Fortune Cookies
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Hope you enjoyed your General Tso's chicken, because your fortune is about to take a turn for the worse:
“Today is a disastrous day. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” reads one fortune showing up around the country.
“It’s over your head now. Time to get some professional help,” advises another.
As the messages, contained in cookies made by Wonton Food in Queens, have spread across the country, some diners have registered their reactions online. As a result, the company has a marketing challenge on its hands.
I've not gotten one of these grim fortunes yet, but I have gotten plenty of those lame non-fortune fortunes. You know, like, "Have a nice day." I don't put much stock in these slips of paper as it is, so maybe an odd disastrous one would be a welcome change of pace.
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9 Comments:
Fortune cookies are a fun addition to end a meal, but has anyone ever really had one that actually tasted good?
JEP at 5:29PM on 10/08/07
JEP, are you eating the paper or the cookie? ;-)
I once got an empty fortune cookie. I still haven't figured out what that means ... :-D
LunaPierCook at 6:10PM on 10/08/07
Best fortune I've ever gotten, by far:
"You will get new clothes"
Ric0chet at 6:13PM on 10/08/07
My boyfriend & I have been getting these cheeky fortunes since the beginning of the summer! Our local high-end Chinese restaurant & the Panda Express in the mall food court have both been handing these out. My boyfriend got the "It's over your head now..." one the first time it happened and we thought it was some crazy disgruntled fortune cookie maker engaging in some culture jamming. They are so much better than the crap fortunes we've all gotten used to receiving.
drunkykitty at 6:32PM on 10/08/07
Oh, an important thought ... Bob & Tom have always said to add "in bed" to each fortune. It can get very interesting indeed ... for example, from the orignal post, "Today is a disastrous day. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em in bed." :-D
LunaPierCook at 6:37PM on 10/08/07
I love the zany "Confucius says" ones. The richest one I got was "Confucius says... love in triangles not in squares!"
onedaylingers at 9:10PM on 10/08/07
Wow, I wish I could get one of these. It might make of up for the (lack of) taste!
Christina at 9:21PM on 10/08/07
Why, when I read this post, do I automatically think of The Simpsons episode where Homer Simpson did work as a fortune writer for fortune cookies?
karlanee at 8:00AM on 10/09/07
The best fortune cookie fortune I've ever seen, partly because it wasn't in my cookie:
"You think that is a secret, but it never has been."
Buckethead at 12:07PM on 10/09/07