fortune cookie

plural fortune cookies

1. A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.

   I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind

   2006, “Courtesy Laughs”, in It's Never Been Like That, performed by Phoenix

   3 more examples

   […]the Chinese atmosphere of the afternoon was pleasantly deepened with real Chinese tea, fortune cookies and honest to goodness ginger which Mrs. Palmtag managed to find some place (in Monterey)[…]

   1942 May 8, The Carmel Pine Cone

   For dessert, a dish of preserved fruits—perhaps Chinese kumquats, each speared with its individual toothpick, and a plate of Chinese fortune cookies (Mai Ping), crisp, thin, folded rice cakes, each containing a little slip of paper with a lucky proverb or fortune.

   1942 July 28, House & Garden

   “The Chinese restaurant code. It states that the fortune cookie is not to be taken lightly. Now what do you mean to be doing with this fortune cookie anyway, lad?”

   2009, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Stripmalling, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 23

2. computingA quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
3. slanglifestyleThe vulva of canine species.

   that's why I love wearing a skirt with no underwear! plus if you see someone cute you can flash them your plump juicy fortune cookie and tease them when they get an obvious bulge with a wet spot :3

   2025 July 27, @talkshowghost.com, Bluesky (post), archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026