The Fortune Cookie Quest
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The Fortune Cookie - The Origins of the Fortune Cookie?
These miso flavored, folded japanese crispy crackers did, in fact have a piece of paper inside. And what was interesting is that they tended not to be like fortunes as we think of as fortunes. They were like pieces of poetry, or maybe like a song lirgren, right? But they are not making oracle like predictions about, like, your future. These japanese cookies are savoury and they're bigger, and then the fortunes ares wedged in the claws of the cookie, not inside it. And they're more poetic than predictive. Still, jennie and yasuko are convinced that these are definitely the ancestral origins of the fortune
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