FORTUNE COOKIES

COMMON MYTHS ABOUT FORTUNE COOKIES DISPELLED:

Myth: Fortune cookies are chosen very carefully by a psychic Chinese person in the attic of the restaurant who watches each customer and channels their thoughts invoking the spirit of Buddha to choose the correct wisdom for that person. Then he writes the fortune on a little piece of paper and threads it into the cookie which is made from rice flour and spit.
Fact: The process by which all Chinese Restaurants insure that each fortune is accurate and appropriate for the person to whom it is served is a much more elaborate process that begins weeks before you ever even go to the restaurant, and involves mindreading, time travel and other highly advanced technologies that the western world knows nothing about.

Myth: Confucius was a wise teacher of ancient Chinese philosophy who invented a religion called Confucianism.
Fact: They just spelled “confusion” wrong.

Myth: Fortune cookies are edible.
Fact: They're cardboard.

Myth: The lottery numbers on the back of the fortune are real winning numbers.
Fact: The numbers on the back of fortunes are actually a secret code used by the Xian Dynasty to communicate clandestine plans while operating in the western world.

Myth: There is nothing sexual about the shape of a fortune cookie.
Fact: There is something sexual about the shape of a fortune cookie.