Why was my fortune cookie EMPTY, and what does it mean?
June 20, 2006 4:11 PM Subscribe
My fortune cookie was EMPTY. What does this mean?
Has this ever happened to anyone before? Although I do not particularly subscribe to superstitious beliefs, I have never encountered an empty fortune cookie prior to today's dinner. Is there any significance, albeit superstitious, to opening an empty fortune cookie? Curious to know...
Has this ever happened to anyone before? Although I do not particularly subscribe to superstitious beliefs, I have never encountered an empty fortune cookie prior to today's dinner. Is there any significance, albeit superstitious, to opening an empty fortune cookie? Curious to know...
This post was deleted for the following reason: kind of silly. I lost my keys, what does that mean?!
It means your life will be crunchy and delicious, and free of bland catch-all "predictions".
posted by Asparagirl at 4:16 PM on June 20, 2006 [1 favorite]
posted by Asparagirl at 4:16 PM on June 20, 2006 [1 favorite]
orangeshoe "Is there any significance, albeit superstitious, to opening an empty fortune cookie?"
Fortune cookies are an American invention, dating to somewhere around 1909. Any superstitious significance was created after that point, so while it may exist, it would be quite a new superstition.
posted by Bugbread at 4:18 PM on June 20, 2006
Fortune cookies are an American invention, dating to somewhere around 1909. Any superstitious significance was created after that point, so while it may exist, it would be quite a new superstition.
posted by Bugbread at 4:18 PM on June 20, 2006
That was your fortune.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:18 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:18 PM on June 20, 2006
My fortune cookie was EMPTY ... in bed.
No, that doesn't really work. Sorry.
What Good Brain said.
posted by quin at 4:23 PM on June 20, 2006
No, that doesn't really work. Sorry.
What Good Brain said.
posted by quin at 4:23 PM on June 20, 2006
By that I meant that you just had a Zen moment. Your fortune is absolutely nothing and infinitely possible at the same time.
posted by dness2 at 4:28 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by dness2 at 4:28 PM on June 20, 2006
Check the mirror. You may be dead.
posted by nathancaswell at 4:28 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by nathancaswell at 4:28 PM on June 20, 2006
As bugbread points out, fortune cookies are more recent novelty (invented in San Francisco) than ancient mystical tradition.
So the superstitious impact is the same as not finding a surprise in your breakfast cereal.
posted by vacapinta at 4:33 PM on June 20, 2006
So the superstitious impact is the same as not finding a surprise in your breakfast cereal.
posted by vacapinta at 4:33 PM on June 20, 2006
"I see dead people posting!"
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 4:38 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 4:38 PM on June 20, 2006
I was going to say it means bad things for your sex life, but I think quin took that one. :)
posted by danb at 4:38 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by danb at 4:38 PM on June 20, 2006
The Future is Unwritten" - Joe Strummer, the Clash.
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:44 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:44 PM on June 20, 2006
It totally means you have free will, dude. Enjoy it.
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:45 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:45 PM on June 20, 2006
You got a cookies without a fortune? Gadzooks, it's the seventh sign.
posted by greatgefilte at 4:48 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by greatgefilte at 4:48 PM on June 20, 2006
cookie, sheesh.
posted by greatgefilte at 4:54 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by greatgefilte at 4:54 PM on June 20, 2006
I once got a cookie with the fortune:
Can anybody explaine this one?
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 5:04 PM on June 20, 2006
Beware of strangers bearing used soda strawsI couldn't tell if this was a mistranslation of a real saying or somebody goofing on being inscrutable to confuse the roundeyes.
Can anybody explaine this one?
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 5:04 PM on June 20, 2006
My girlfriend got an interesting fortune last week:
You would be smart to not be yourself
posted by ninjew at 5:08 PM on June 20, 2006
You would be smart to not be yourself
posted by ninjew at 5:08 PM on June 20, 2006
Alas, the onion you are eating is someone else's water lilly.
I saved that one for years.
posted by Richard Daly at 5:16 PM on June 20, 2006
I saved that one for years.
posted by Richard Daly at 5:16 PM on June 20, 2006
My fortune cookie was EMPTY ... in bed.
So it's saying orangeshoe is infertile?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:17 PM on June 20, 2006
So it's saying orangeshoe is infertile?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:17 PM on June 20, 2006
Response by poster: Okay, okay...I understand that the question is SILLY! But my question simply was whether there is some generally known "superstitious significance" to the empty fortune cookie, and not what it actually foreshadows for my future.
posted by orangeshoe at 5:23 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by orangeshoe at 5:23 PM on June 20, 2006
Response by poster: Or, perhaps even that I my bed (and thus, sex life) is empty? ;)
posted by orangeshoe at 5:24 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by orangeshoe at 5:24 PM on June 20, 2006
Response by poster: "that my bed" not "that I my bed"
posted by orangeshoe at 5:24 PM on June 20, 2006
posted by orangeshoe at 5:24 PM on June 20, 2006
Last week, my mom got "You will be hungry again soon. Order takeout." Heh.
I think she would have preferred an empty one.
posted by sugarfish at 5:26 PM on June 20, 2006
I think she would have preferred an empty one.
posted by sugarfish at 5:26 PM on June 20, 2006
It was simple and Zen.
The idea that your future is in flux - and your own destiny. It means have free will. Free will to set your future. Free will above the whim of fortune cookies.
You will be fine, as long, and there's the key idea, as long as you don't open any other fortune cookies.
The moment you eat and read a new fortune cookie, you put your future back in the hand of your machine masters; those who let you believe fate comes from a fortune cookie.
posted by filmgeek at 5:27 PM on June 20, 2006
The idea that your future is in flux - and your own destiny. It means have free will. Free will to set your future. Free will above the whim of fortune cookies.
You will be fine, as long, and there's the key idea, as long as you don't open any other fortune cookies.
The moment you eat and read a new fortune cookie, you put your future back in the hand of your machine masters; those who let you believe fate comes from a fortune cookie.
posted by filmgeek at 5:27 PM on June 20, 2006
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You didn't eat the cookie, did you?
posted by Good Brain at 4:13 PM on June 20, 2006