| 词汇 | fortune cookies |
| 词源 | fortune cookies. The cookie with a fortune inside was in- vented in 1918 by David Jung, a contemporary Chinese immi- grant who had established Los Angeles’s Hong Kong Noodle Company. Jung got the idea after noting how bored customers got while waiting for their orders in Chinese restaurants. He employed a Presbyterian minister (the first fortune cookie au- thor!) to write condensations of biblical messages and later hired Marie Raine, the wife of one of his salesmen, who became the Shakespeare of fortune cookies, writing thousands of clas- sic fortunes such as “Your feet shall walk upon a plush carpet of contentment.” The Hong Kong Noodle Company is still in business, as are hundreds of other fortune cookie “publishers.” Notable ones include Misfortune Cookies of Los Angeles: “Look forward to love and marriage, but not with the same person.” Today fortune cookies are of course served at the end of a meal. |
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