Chinese Fortune Cookies Really Japanese

Film at eleven .

Outrageous! Next thing you know they’ll be telling us that spaghetti really comes from China, or that french fries come from Belgium, or that Catherinie d’Medici’s Florentine chefs are really the inventors of French cuisine! Or worse : That the fortunes in fortune cookies don’t really come true, but are made up willy-nilly by some guy in a paper hat!

Revisionist jackanapes . . .

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