An Argument Discrediting the Idea of the Chinese Fortune Cookie Essay

The Fortune Cookie The Unsuspected SweetThe fortune cookie! A small, hard, crunchy, semi-sweet and a wholly undesirable snack many would say. But, out of the many people that idly toss these pastries aside, how many just don t realize the proportions to which it is entrenched in the world. This stale dessert has a side to it that very few truly know, and even fewer truly understand. It can be said that fortune cookies have been one of the most interesting after dinner sweets ever been served.First off, there is no such thing as a Chinese Fortune Cookie (Lee). Oh, sure that's what it's called over here in the states, but it's an American invention. The Japanese tea cookie was the original paper-bearing bit of crunchy goodness. As the name implies, this cookie was often eaten with tea. It was not, however, eaten for any specific reason other than it tasted good (to them anyway). Supposedly eating sweets after a hefty meal "helps settle the stomach", but I'm of the opinion some little kid said his stomach hurt when he couldn't eat any more peas then was "magically" cured when he had some ice cream.No one exactly knows how it is that the Japanese tea cookie came to be a Chinese fortune cookie. The "fortune" part is easy... the 4' by 1 cm bits of useless drivel found in each folded sugar lump. The name "tea cookie" isn't as attractive as the current name so they just could not have that. It's the Japanese to Chinese that is the confusing part. It was probably just an owner of a Chinese restaurant that thought it would get him better business if he gave "fortune cookies". It might even be possible that at the time that this certain restaurant owner thought that Americans would not know the difference between Japanese and Chinese.Next, how is this mind-boggling lump of organic sweetness made? Well, for anyone who has eaten...

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