[You will soon discover how fortunate you truly are:]

While the beginnings of fortune cookies can be traced back to 14th-century China as a clandestine form of communication—Chinese soldiers transferred secret messages via moon cakes—the likelier origins were American. In 1918, David Jung, a noodle manufacturer in Los Angeles, handed out cookies that contained uplifting messages as a promotional gimmick. To this day the tradition persists. Golden Bowl has more than 400 distributors, selling their cookies all over the U.S., in Puerto Rico, Canada and Europe.

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