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Fortune Cookies: A Cultural Misnomer by Haziq Jamsari is a document available to read on EtoBox.

On March 30, 2005, 110 people won second place in the Powerball lottery by choosing numbers from fortune cookies. While fortune cookies are considered a Chinese food, they actually originated in Japan. Japanese immigrants in the late 1800s opened "Chinese" restaurants serving Americanized dishes to appeal to American tastes, and also introduced fortune cookies. During World War II, many Japanese Americans had to leave their businesses, including Chinese restaurants they owned, and by then fortune cookies we

Author

Haziq Jamsari

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