Thread "Something REALLY wrong with this..." in forum "General Stuff"

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 6, 2010

I had Chinese today.

Cuz I'm a cannibal.

No, no, I had sweet n sour cat er something. Anyway, so I finish up and bust open the lousy fortune cookie (which, by the way, could do with chocolate) and read my fortune.

Word for word, this is what it said:

"Here we go. Low fat, whole wheat green tea."

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What on God's green earth does that mean? Was Confucius high when he wrote that one?

Posted at 5:07PM, Jul. 2, 2010

I guess that the person who writes fortune cookies where you went was crazy. Or messed up with his shoping list. Or BOTH!

Posted at 1:07AM, Jul. 7, 2010

Yeah, but who puts "low fat, whole wheat green tea" on their shopping list? Does that even exist? Does green tea typically have a lot of fat and bleached flour in it to justify making a low fat, whole wheat variant? And what's up with the "Here we go" part?

All I can come up with is that the guy who usually does the translations was sick that day. I guess the second rung guy lied on his application.

Oddly, this fortune has been in circulation for quite a while. I Googled the phrase and there were quite a few hits. Including this one from 2007:

http://iwiggleitjustalittlebit.blogspot.com/2007/11/here-be-dragons.html

Of course, it could be that the Chinese place I eat at is handing out 3 year old cookies.