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[> [> [> Re: " Hop Sing Quit, Go Back China " photo ("Fortune Cookie") -- High Line Rider, 16:25:09 05/04/13 Sat [1]

OMG , your right , neither have I.
Those are good little treats.
You can buy a full box at the DollarTree store for $1.00
They are Great.

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[> [> [> [> Re: " Hop Sing Quit,. . . photo ("Fortune Cookie") [history] -- Joe H., 10:58:33 05/08/13 Wed [1]

According to: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html "Chinese or Japanese, Angelino or San Franciscan?

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. "

- - Joe

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