fortune cookies

The Chinese do not know what these are. I asked a class of mine in Songyuan about them and I had to show them pictures to explain and they had a bunch of questions about the fortunes. I have yet to see one. The Chinese don't really even eat dessert at all. Where on earth did we come up with this?!

It makes the Ben & Jerry's/Linsanity controversy even funnier. There is a guy that comes to my government class on Saturdays whose English name is Jeremy, after Jeremy Lin, so we are reading an article about it and having a debate this week. Stay posted for the final verdict!