At some point I read about a Chinese restaurant – it may have been in Canada – that drew customers by having fortune cookies with awful fortunes. The two I remember were “Dental work will be done poorly, and you will have to go back,” and “Your fetish for rubber underwear will cause you great embarrassment in public.” I would pay to eat at a place like that, but I guess the schtick was only effective for a while.
They’re not even “Fortune” cookies anymore. Instead they’re “Platitude” cookies. They don’t predict any future, they just have some kind of hackneyed saying in them…
At some point I read about a Chinese restaurant – it may have been in Canada – that drew customers by having fortune cookies with awful fortunes. The two I remember were “Dental work will be done poorly, and you will have to go back,” and “Your fetish for rubber underwear will cause you great embarrassment in public.” I would pay to eat at a place like that, but I guess the schtick was only effective for a while.
They’re not even “Fortune” cookies anymore. Instead they’re “Platitude” cookies. They don’t predict any future, they just have some kind of hackneyed saying in them…
And don’t forget the lottery numbers under the “fortune” now.
Fun fact: Fortune cookies aren’t Chinese cuisine – they’re American. Which is probably why the messages are sellouts.