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How often do you take the message inside your fortune cookie seriously? If you're anything like me, you read them for a quick giggle and then leave them crumpled on the table. Occasionally I'll keep one if it seems particularly applicable to something I'm going through, but that's fairly rare.
But what if you got a fortune that predicted bad times ahead? Or one that suggested that "Perhaps you've been focusing too much on yourself." Or even possibly "Your luck is just not there. Attend to practical matters today." These are just a few of the fortunes that consumers have been discovering lately in the cookies produced and distributed by Wonton Food, the country's largest fortune cookie manufacturer.
Apparently, they decided to spice things up and so hired some new freelance writers to create new fortunes. These insulting and dire notes are what these new writers came up with. The backlash has been swift, as people have written into the company to complain about the negative nature of their fortunes. Wonton Food is planning on keeping most of the new messages in circulation, but have admitted that they will be taking a few of the most offensive messages out of their cookies.
[Via New York Times]
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10-14-2007 @11:18PM RH said... My husband once got a fortune which read, "still hungry? eat another fortune cookie" That one is remembered far more than all the others!
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10-14-2007 @11:35PM JIll said... My husband got a fortune cookie that read "Your life will change forever" and 10 days later he dropped dead!
I don't read fortune cookies anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10-15-2007 @12:02AM Diane said... Years ago my Dad got one that said "Beware of a red headed woman"........My Mom is a redhead. He laughed and laughed.
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10-15-2007 @12:19AM Gin said... The one Fortune I have kept... Your Venture Will Be a Success.. This was the day after I had gotten my Chevy Venture van... Im still driving it and it has more that 120,000 miles and still running strong.
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10-15-2007 @12:27AM babe tricks said... my friend always added "between the sheets" to any fortune. Once I got a fortune that said "you will be a guest at a gay party" and I thought "between the sheets" what a hoot
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10-15-2007 @12:37AM Tej said... In my most honest & humble opinion, fortune is like luck. it is good, bad or dumb depending on how you take it & use it to benefit (or hurt) yourself & others in this life & the next, grasshopper!
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10-15-2007 @1:40AM Elaine said... Our family laughingly took the last fortune cookie and said it was for the whole group. It said "You will have a close encounter of a serious kind." 2 hours later we were the first people on the scene at a serious wreck. I'd rather have benign fortunes.
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10-15-2007 @2:08AM Jennifer Trepper said... "Man am I glad to be out of that cookie"
My favorite of all of the fortunes I've ever received.
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10-15-2007 @5:03AM SmartFeller said... For years I always joked about opening a company that produced "unfortunate" fortune cookies. Now they are here! I love it!
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10-15-2007 @2:24PM wajrlew said... I once had one that said:
"Do not eat this fortune cookie"
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10-15-2007 @4:11PM gringo said... Robert, Lighten up, man!
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10-17-2007 @11:10PM chattatim said... Old... Penn & Teller did this in a book way back in pre-internet days. Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
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10-18-2007 @12:44AM Greg Della Penna said... I just got a fortune cookie that says, "You laugh now, wait till u get home." This kind of put a damper on the enjoyment of my dinner...
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