Does anyone know how or why fortune cookies have lost their oomph? This has nothing to do with taste...well, in this post, it does. A little.
I had a hankering for wonton soup tonight. If I were a better person, I would have made it but alas I was not in a cooking mood and so we ordered in. Good food. Bravo, Jumbo Seafood, a local eatery that belongs to a delivery service.
Comes then the crushing disappointment. Cracking open the cookie. Back in the day, I remember fortunes like: "Cross the great water and meet your great love." "An unexpected meeting will change your career." You know. All of us has a friend who keeps these little slips of providence in his (in my experience, two men I know do this) wallet.
But in the last few years, I've consistently gotten proverbs not prognostication. Really useless. True, but useless. Tonight's case in point: "Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness." I agree but what about tomorrow? What's happening then? Come on, fortune cookie makers. Let's get back to divination.
