Many people don't know this but in the ancient chinese tradition, fortune cookies were actually a method of communication between men, without their wives knowing. Secretly these men would put small notes in little orange cookies to try to pass them without the other sex seeing them. This proposition was obviously doomed to failure as the women occasionally enjoyed opening them too and found the notes, so rather than admitting the fad, men started putting fortunes in the cookies... most of them. And occasionally you'll still get hanger's-on that are messages from one guy who works at the fortune cookie factory to another, but the message accidentally falls into the bagging machine...etc.
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Date: 2007-07-27 03:58 pm (UTC)