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Cook’s Illustrated Wants You and Your Spatula

I've been doing this for a while now. It's fun, but yeah, not so easy sourcing a couple of pints of good blueberries for a pie in January. Worth it though, if you want to really self-evaluate your cooking technique.

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The Best Worst Restaurant Names Ever

"Food Wall" in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Chinese, allegedly. Just... gross.

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Cook’s Illustrated Wants You and Your Spatula

I've been doing this for a while now. It's fun, but yeah, not so easy sourcing a couple of pints of good blueberries for a pie in January. Worth it though, if you want to really self-evaluate your cooking technique.

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The Best Worst Restaurant Names Ever

"Food Wall" in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Chinese, allegedly. Just... gross.

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The Best Worst Restaurant Names Ever

In Chongqing. I recent ate at a hot pot restaurant called Zhu's Fagty Rot Hot-Tot. I have the napkin to prove it. What is this: a restaurant for gay pedophiles?

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The Best Worst Restaurant Names Ever

A friend of mine at Vassar told me about a place in Poughkipsee called the "Yeung Ho Chinese Restaurant"

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Safari Tacos in Door County, Wisc. I mean seriously, that makes no sense. Safari Tacos?

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Juan Toomany's Taco Hut in Missouri City, Texas (now closed).

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The Best Worst Restaurant Names Ever

My favorite is the chinese restaurant in Cooperstown, NY.

Foo Kin, as in "I want some of that Foo Kin Chinese Food!"

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Singapore Bistro on 19th and L in Washington DC has the name right but if you look closely the sign below reads "Asian Cousin". Awesome!

And in Hilton Head, South Carolina somewhere I remember seeing a restaurant called Mexician Grill. We still laugh at that one!

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There's a Chinese restaurant here in Portland, OR called Hung Far Low. I have no idea why.

There used to be a place called Takee Outee in the French Quarter. There was one right up the street from Pat O's. The eggrolls were huge, delicious and exactly what we needed after a few Hurricanes. Good times.

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

My mom got a fortune that read, "Promote literacy, eat more fortune cookies." And the sad thing is that she is an English teacher.

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

maered: IMHO, you are the winner! Nobody would dare say it, but what perfect advice for any new bride.

LoCo: We do something similar - our phrase is, "That's what the girl said to the sailor." Can get darn funny with a group, especially with a little alcohol thrown in. In any casual situation. Yours definitely works best with fortunes, though. I'm laughing.

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

We had our wedding dinner at a Chinese restaurant (we were broke) and my fortune cookie read: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

17 years later ... I still have the husband and the fortune too.

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

I got one that said: "The number three."

I keep every one of my fortune cookie slips. The early ones were in this tiny 1 inch diameter decorative clay pot. When that got full, I started putting them in the large pink plastic see-through piggy bank that I got as a holiday party gift. That hasn't gotten full yet.

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

When I was in high school, a friend of mine was deployed during Desert Storm. I made him homemade fortune cookies and put fortunes like "Don't look a gift camel in the mouth," and "If you lay down with camels, you'll get up with sand fleas." They were great comic relief and I had a blast making them.

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

A recent one that's still sitting on my desk:

Avoid the opposite sex today.
Yeah, right!

And then just for emphasis, the 'Learn Chinese' word on the back:
Still single-mae yao jeh huan

Can't make these up!!

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

most nonsensical: "here we go. moo shu cereal for breakfast. with duck sauce."
favorite: "a nice cake is waiting for you."
i should eat chinese food more often!

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

Went to a Chinese restaurant on my 40th birthday, April 1, and my fortune said" A fool at forty is a fool indeed"

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

Anybody else have funny fortune-cookie traditions? One that's popular where I come from is to read your fortune aloud to the rest of your party and add the words "in bed" to the end of the fortune. Some pretty hysterical results as you go around the table. Especially if it's a large group that's been drinking!

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

There is a Chinese food restaurant in my town that does not put fortunes in its cookies because it is a Christian business. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's a little sad to open your fortune (non-fortune?) cookie and have nothing inside!
The ones my husband and I got last night happen to be related to our potential work situations in the near future! "Investigate a new opportunity as a potential prospect."

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

I collect fortunes, and get lots of generic ones. The best fortune I've gotten reads, "Very soon, and in pleasant company." I think that covers all bases!

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Fortune Cookies: Made in Japan? Like Pizza? Your Weirdest Fortune?

In the past month, on separate occasions, I've gotten a blank fortune. So, if I stop commenting here I think it's safe to assume I'm dead :)

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