Pessimistic Fortune Cookies

Think twice before you assume that the fortune you’re about to find in your cookie is a vague, sugar-coated cliché.

Wonton Food, who produce about 4.5 million cookies a day have “enriched” their catalog of fortunes with some slightly more downbeat advice.

“Today is a disastrous day. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” reads one fortune whilst another advises “It’s over your head now. Time to get some professional help”.

One blogger, who got the “professional help” fortune, wrote: “I shot the audacious baked item a dirty look and proceeded to eat it. And I hope it hurt.”

Bernard Chow, marketing coordinator at Wonton Food, says he had not set out to insult anybody when he asked his team of freelance writers to come up with some new messages.

“We wanted our fortune cookies to be a little bit more value-added,” Mr. Chow said. “We wanted to get some different perspective, to write something that is more contemporary.”

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