The Fortune Cookie and it's Consequences






It seems that the "Fortune Cookie" is more than just a cookie. I say this because of a recent event that occurred.

 Before I get to that I was curious about where the cookie came from so I Goggled it like any good blogger would and this is what I found..........

" 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."

Read more: The History of the Fortune Cookie — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#ixzz27xorJZ00  "

The reason I even bring up the fortune cookie is because a year ago my daughter and son in law finally had the opportunity to adopt a baby boy.  They had been trying to have kids for years and a couple of times even had chances to adopt but all failed until recently.

 With out going into great detail the adoption agency found a young women who was putting her unborn up for adoption and my daughter and son in law were picked to be the new parents.

 Now to the point of the story.  

They met with the mother and offered to take her out to dinner and asked where would she like to go and she said she liked Asian food so they went to an Asian restaurant and with their food of couese they got fortune cookies.

 My daughter opened her cookie and read the fortune. It said something along the lines of " What you have been wishing for will come true soon" and the next day the baby (his name is Lukas) was born.  The adoption went through with no problems and now he is one year old living with my daughter Stephenie and her husband Chad.

 So say what you will about fortune cookies but be careful what you wish for when you crack it open. 

That fortune in the cookie may just come true.


Thanks for reading
Brooks



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