 | Enhance your presentation of fortune cookies and amuse or annoy your dining company by directing them in the proper etiquette for handling these message-bearing biscuits. When the fortune cookies arrive, make a spectacle of urgently admonishing anyone against reaching for a cookie before becoming versed in this procedure. Reach for a solitary cookie yourself, hold it outstretched at about eye level for all to see, and demonstrate the following steps, providing the melodramatic narrative as you proceed: |
| I think one of the above may apply to me, but I forget which one. |
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STEP 1
Take one fortune cookie and break it open gently by cracking it approximately in half with both hands.
STEP 2
Separate the two pieces, pulling one piece slowly away from the other to reveal a fortune protruding from one half of the cookie, and none from the other. Do not yet read the fortune, lest you will shame the cookie, and your fortune will not come true.
STEP 3
Eat one of the halves of the cookie only. Do not finish eating the cookie yet, lest you will shame the fortune, and it will not come true.
STEP 4
You may now read the fortune. You may react politely.
STEP 5
Eat the rest of the cookie. Discarding the last bit of cookie would, of course, shame it considerably. Your fortune would not come true. Should you find your fortune to be unfavorable, you might be tempted to discard the last half of the cookie intentionally so as to ward off a bad fortune. This is not recommended, as shaming the cookie thusly may cause your fortune to come true out of pure spite.
- This procedure is inspired by the practice of covering the challah (bread) during the blessing over the wine at the beginning of the Jewish Shabbat (Sabbath) meal.
I originally wrote this for eHow. After about a year, they deleted it suddenly after I called attention to it by rephrasing a couple words, so I'm preserving it here in my blog. -Dan
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