They’re the perfect after-dinner treat. You get something to munch, plus some words of wisdom on a strip of paper.
Despite its simplicity, the fortune cookie still has a fair amount of mystery about it. Let’s crack open the facts concerning this long-established snack.
The write stuff
Where do the nuggets of enlightenment come from? The answer is on the sobering side. As Mental Floss notes, fortune cookies rely on “a handful of factories that each churn out upward of four million little slips of wisdom a day.”
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