Snopes has finally put up an article about fortune cookies. I've known this for a while, having been to Taiwan, and discovering that they have only a small clue what fortune cookies are.
Not only are they not Chinese, they were invented by a Japanese-American guy in San Francisco. The funniest part to me about the article is the part about the guy in Hong Kong who imported them and put them in his restaurants, and called them "Genuine American Fortune Cookies."
Posted by Shenlon at June 11, 2008 04:50 PM