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Fortune cookies lose their romance after complaints from parents
New York Post ^
| February 10, 2013
| GARY BUISO
Posted on 02/10/2013 8:26:11 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Romance is dead in your fortune cookie!
The worlds largest fortune-cookie manufacturer has cut the heart out of its confections, removing romantic messages in response to complaints from parents of young children.
Some parents sent us e-mails. They said they didnt want their kids reading them, said Derrick Wong, a VP at Brooklyn-based Wonton Food. Different people have a different perspective.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: complaints; fortunes
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This reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode with William Shattner in the diner.
To: ConservativeStatement
Twilight zone is correct. Unless the fortune cookie messages are explicitly erotic, there is nothing wrong with a child seeing a love message and being puzzled, or perhaps grossed out.
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:28:52 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: ConservativeStatement
A little trick I learned was to add the words “in bed” to the end of any fortune cookie saying.
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:31:15 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: ConservativeStatement
What’s wrong with parents these days? How about telling your child, “This isn’t relevant to you,” and dropping it?
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:31:28 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I have chocolate.)
To: Tax-chick
Gotta remember....most of them are low information people...someone has to tell them what to tell their children...(s)
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:33:50 AM PST
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: Tax-chick
Actual parenting? Pshaw. What would you know about that? ;)
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:36:06 AM PST
by
thoolou
("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
To: ConservativeStatement
Mommy, the cookie says my dinner comes with “Happy Ending”, does that mean dessert?
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:38:40 AM PST
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: Rebel_Ace
One of my buddies once opened a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant. It read, “Soon, and with a young man.”
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:50:54 AM PST
by
04-Bravo
To: dfwgator
From another post:
Mommy, the cookie says my dinner comes with Happy Ending ... ? Happy Ending (in bed)!
Hey, I'll have to remember that.
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:53:15 AM PST
by
JohnG45
To: dfwgator
It so works.
Even if the first time I heard it, my fortune was, “All is not lost.”
To: ConservativeStatement
Next to be banned:
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:57:30 AM PST
by
fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: 04-Bravo
My family often gets Chinese take out. We get a kick out of the “English as a second language” phrases that we find in the cookies they include in the order.
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posted on
02/10/2013 8:59:03 AM PST
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: Jonty30
I remember distinctly being a small kid in the 60’s and running across “adult” stuff like this. We’d just giggle or roll our eyes, then forget about it move on with our lives. Sheesh.
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posted on
02/10/2013 9:03:42 AM PST
by
fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: ConservativeStatement
If you ever visit San Fran, tour the Fortune Cookie Factory in Chinatown. "Factory" makes you think of a huge plant, right? This one will disabuse you of that notion...it's no bigger than an elongated bedroom. But you can eat all the remnants you can carry! My kids always enjoyed a brief drop-in when we went to the city.
To: thoolou; illiac
Why make the effort to send an email and carry on, when all you have to do is say, “It doesn’t matter. Eat the cookie.”?
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posted on
02/10/2013 9:07:06 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I have chocolate.)
To: dfwgator
I remember you writing that here once, it’s a hilarious idea and we had lots of fun with it.
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posted on
02/10/2013 9:09:36 AM PST
by
Shimmer1
(No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
To: ConservativeStatement
When my younger sister was about seven years old, she made a “cootie catcher” with fortunes inside. Remember those?
One of the fortunes was “You will die someday.”
Good times, good times...
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posted on
02/10/2013 9:19:15 AM PST
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: ConservativeStatement
To: ConservativeStatement
I always told Amy that the waiter had made a mistake and had given her my cookie, or her mother’s.
To: ConservativeStatement
I long for the day when one cracks open a fortune cookie with the message of: Whiners. Piss off!
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posted on
02/10/2013 9:35:06 AM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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