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A Short History On The Fortune Cookie
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- Slide 1: f or t une
A short history on the fortune cookie
- Slide 2:Over 3 billion fortune cookies are made each year
- Slide 3:mostly in the United States
- Slide 4:However…
- Slide 5:There are competing stories of their origin
- Slide 6:One story was based
in San Francisco
California
It was said the
Makoto Hagiwara
introduced it in the
early 1900s
- Slide 7:He also designed the
majority of the
Japanese Tea Garden
in Golden Gate Park
- Slide 8:Claims for the fortune
cookie origin also
came from Los
Angeles in the early
1900s
- Slide 9: Los Angeles
Candidate #1
David Jung, owner of the Hong
Kong Noodle company was said
to have handed out fortune
cookies with words of Bible
scriptures to the unemployed