2006-09-16 17:17:12 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Entertaining
The fortune cookie is a thin, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of wisdom or prophecy. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation. Despite the conventional wisdom, they were actually invented in California, USA, not China.
2006-09-16 17:20:31 · answer #1 · answered by newsgirlinos2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-12 20:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is said to have invented the cookie in 1909, California USA
2006-09-18 13:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by Blackjack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-16 17:35:47 · answer #4 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One history of the fortune cookie claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, invented the cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets. Each cookie contained a strip of paper with an inspirational Bible scripture on it, written for Jung by a Presbyterian minister.
Another history claims that the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco by a Japanese immigrant named Makoto Hagiwara. Hagiwara was a gardener who designed the famous Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. An anti-Japanese mayor fired him from his job around the turn of the century, but later a new mayor reinstated him. Grateful to those who had stood by him during his period of hardship, Hagiwara created a cookie in 1914 that included a thank you note inside. He passed them out at the Japanese Tea Garden, and began serving them there regularly. In 1915, they were displayed at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco's world fair
2006-09-16 17:34:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gates Park Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco in 1909.
2006-09-16 17:28:13 · answer #6 · answered by rjr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long ago back in the bayou country there lived a little old lady of questionable heritage. Her name was Fativa Cookystien. She was the proud owner of her own business. She had a grill attached to a flat boat she traveled the bayou selling fresh grilled food to the gator hunters and snake hunters.It was about two years after she gave birth to her daughter that she was baking bread one day when the little girl dropped a spoonful of sugar in the bread dough and like that was not bad enough she then caused her to drop a small amount on the hot grill which cooked up just fine yet a little crispy. Well her mother liked this sweet thing and named in on honor of her daughter who was known as Cookie. This was a big hit with her customers for a many years. Then when Cookie reached dating age ( I think this is about 12 in bayou country) she went on a date with a gator hunters son who was not a very nice boy and not to mention he was flat out ugly. Well Fativa could not stand the thought of the boy with her little Cookie so she forbid her from contact with the boy, who by the way had the name of Four. His daddy named him Four because he was born on the fourth night of the harvest moon.Well it seems that Cookie just could not forget about Four. She tried everything thing she could to see him , alas she failed in every attempt at meeting Four. This left her only way to tell Four how she loved him so. Yes she wrote him notes and stuck them in the cookies her mother baked. You see Four had a rather odd taste and he liked garlic on his cookies so he always got special cookies which made it easy for Cookie to know which cookies were for him. Well the notes were discovered one day when Mr. Tune (Fours dad) ate one of Fours cookies by mistake. After he was done throwing up over the side of the flat boat from the mix of garlic and sweet dough , he told Fativa of the cookies,she realized she could not stop Cookie from seeing Four so she accepted him as her son in law. She also realized the great potential of putting messages that tell ones fortune in cookies. So in honor of her daughter Cookie and her new son in law Four Tune she named the cookies after the two of them Fortune Cookie.
2006-09-16 18:04:08 · answer #7 · answered by windyy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Irish Jews.
2006-09-16 17:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by Rica_Venia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were invented in California, USA, but I'm not really sure who invented.
2006-09-17 06:57:36 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Roberta. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some chinese person...and I'm not being racist. fortune cookies originated in china.
2006-09-16 17:25:14 · answer #10 · answered by xcrimsonxphoenixofxhellx 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋