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Well that’s unfortunate.
That’ll be enough of that, young lady!
I don’t know why, when I read that, I read it in a (spanking-me voice)
That’s how I read it to, lol.
No, no, no. Stern but compassionate, wise older uncle voice. No spanking.
You keep saying things that test my determination to keep my moral code [Specifically the bit about no "playing" with married women (fortunately we live on different continents, and your moral code seems to be similar)].
Yes let’s stick to the code. There’s a line that’s meant not to be crossed. I won’t cross it, but will walk on it from time to time.
You’re making it hard for me too! To me, that line is evil.
GET OFF MY D@MN LINE. (read in Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino voice)
MAKE ME! *jumps up and down on it*
Shadow! That line is fraying at one end so you might- *line snaps* Too late.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *crash*
Erm… what?
So very sad they don’t know their own culture!
According to the Food Channel, fortune cookies were invented and developed by the Peking Noodle company of Los Angles, Ca.
I thought that fortune cookies were an American invention…
Fortune cookies are an American invention from Makoto Hagiwara in San Fransisco around 1890, so it really isn’t a mainstrean Chinese culture thing at all.
ahaha- the folded form should have tipped us off that a Japanese man was behind it.
Fortune Cookies are TOTALLY an American Invention. That and Chow Mein… and, I THINK… Egg Fu Yung. Made in America for American tastes.
Chop Suey is also another American invention. It’s basically the leftover cut-up veggies and meats from other dishes, thrown back into the wok, cooked a bit, and served up in a bowl. Was served to the Chinese immigrants who had little or no money, when the cook ran out of ingredients. The fortune cookie was invented by a chef at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, and was originally served as an appetizer, as a way to keep the customers entertained until their food was ready.
The original name of chop suey is chau sui, ‘stir-fried miscellaneous or assorted.’ Another story of its origin is that Chinese cooks who fed railway workers tossed together odd and ends, with the implication that the cooks enjoyed watching their American employers eat a mish-mash that would have offended the Chinese.
No, still Chinese. Just by Chinese who were already in America.
Doesn’t anyone else think that Giardiniera was perhaps being sarcastic?
its so very sad that america has labled fortune cookies as being a part of chinese culture
For those who don’t get it: Fortune cookies have nothing to do with China at all. They are based on a Japanese cookie and on a Japanese fortune tradition. Today’s popular American version is not available in China or much of Asia. FMI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie
The closest relation to China the fortune cookie could have, besides being invented by a Chinese chef, is that according to legend, during the overthrow of the Mongol rule, secret messages were delivered via mooncakes, a traditional Chinese bakery product usually served during the Mid-Autumn/Moon Festival. According to legend a general and his advisor set out a rumor that a plague was going around, and the only cure was to eat the mooncakes, to assure a wide distribution of them. The messages would be written on slips of paper baked in with the filling, so that when broken apart, they would be found. Another method was to bake the message on the surface of the mooncake, but make it into a puzzle. The pieces would be broken up, rearranged to spell out the message, and then “destroyed” by being eaten.
SHOCKING.
Yes, Fortune cookies are a “western” invention. Same with several other “Chinese food” dishes. For instance: Ginger Beef (Calgary, Alberta).
There are many people that assume that all “Chinese food” was invented/created in China… they would be very incorrect.
Yep. Funny…
that is friggin hilarious!
Finally China is becoming westernized. Fortune cookies are just what they need.
Why is this in Engrish? It’s the Americans who believe the silly thing here.
Because it is an engrish misconception? :3
No, I think most Americans older than 13 yrs or so understand this. But don’t let reality interfere with your bigoted misconceptions.
We need to go deeper with this misconception.
I like how much your avatar seems to match your name.
Fortune cookies: there’s a piece of paper inside.
Also:
- ‘Rosebud’ was his sled when he was a little boy.
- She is really a he.
- They are in fact in modern day America, in the middle of a large reserve guarded on the outside, and those monsters are only people in costumes to scare people into good behaviour.
- Bruce Willis is a ghost.
- Marley dies at the end.
Thank you for clearing that up.
who’s Marley?
Yeah, Marley’s dead at the beginning as far as I can tell, what with the walking through walls and the lengths of ghostly chains and all.
And the establishing bit before that where the sign still read “Scrooge and Marley” because Scrooge was too miserly to change it when Marley died.
Plus the fact that the first 3 words of the novel are “Marley was dead”.
It’s a bit of a giveaway.
No, Marley is a ghost in the begining, and Scrooge repents and turns good in the end!
LOL. Fortune Cookies, like most “Chinese Food”, are an American invention.
Yeah, it’s chinese-american, you probably won’t have them outside of the US. Why is that on engrish.com again?
Sudokus aren’t Japanese either.
So, now you’re gonna tell me that french fries and french toast aren’t French, either?
LOL!
(Actually French Fries are Belgian, and French Toast was named that because it was originally made with French bread, odd as that may seem today.)
French toast actually probably was introduced from France. it’s called pain perdu there, and is arguably more popular in America.
What the English call a French Horn, the French call Cor Anglais (English Horn)
Actually the French call it a German horn. The Cor Anglais is what we also call an English horn, and therefore (of course) isn’t a horn at all, but an instrument related to the oboe.
The cookie is a lie.
I wonder if they read them with “…in bed!” at the end of each fortune like we do?
Which reminds me of a silly game my friends and I used to play; say a song title, and then say “under the bed” after it; eg “Strange Kind of Woman” under the bed.
Fortune cookies were invented in America. Of course a Chinese person wouldn’t have the foggiest idea what it is.
I know that the Chinese food you have in America is not authentic Chinese, including the fortune cookie. But one would assume that a certain amount of the Chinese population are aware of Americanized “Chinese” delicacies. I mean, they come over here and then open said restaurants so someone must be spreading the news back to the motherland. “Don’t feed them the good stuff. They like this weird fried chicken and beef dishes. Call them Pu-pu platter. It’s funny. Also they like to have stale cookies with vague messages stuffed inside”
ok now this not real chineses actors try pretend enough.
enough
Wow. I didn’t know fortune cookies were American. I’m Australian, and had never had a barbecued prawn till I went to the US. It seems many people have misconceptions about what actually comes from another culture.
Okay, I know this is a necro but…. How come so many are stuffed with engrish if they’re american? Every friday! (Not questioning that they’re american, just curious where the engrish comes frome… our education system?)