Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Fortune Cookies in China

You DO know that fortune cookies are not actually Chinese, yes? They're mainly an American thing.

Take a look at this awesome video of people in China reacting to fortune cookies. Here's the accompanying New York Times article. Ah, food culture. It's such fun.

What was the last fortune cookie I got, you ask? Confucius say: "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." Ha! And I surely don't need to tell you about the game of adding "in bed" to the end of cookie fortunes.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Um, MM, just need a little clarification here.

When you say your last fortune was "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" and then remind us to add "in bed," it makes me really curious as to how you personally interpret that.

:-P

Mad Minerva said...

I have NO IDEA. The "in bed" tag always make fortunes sound really bizarre -- which, I guess, is the point. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Worked on that one! :-)