Do Chinese rations have fortune cookies?

[RoastBeastFan]

Lunch today: Pineapple-shrimp fried rice.

As picked up: Brown paper sack, styrofoam box, accessory pack, and plastic-wrapped fortune cookie.



Lunch - excellent. Rice, shrimp, pineapple, cashews, tomato, raisins, cucumber, parsley. Enough food for two meals, $7.57 with tax.



After lunch (yum), time for the cookie. Here it is, wrapped.



Unwrapped. The paper fortune is folded inside. The cookies are brittle and fragile (they'd never survive inside an MRE) and this one has chipped.



From the other side, the fortune is visible



Pulling apart the cookie halves, the fortune emerges.



And here it is, with the fortune.



The fortune. It is traditional to interpret these as sexual innuendo if possible, generally by adding the words "in bed" to the end of the fortune. Here, the double meaning of the word trick (which, in slang, means a man who visits a prostitute) is all we need to find a scandalous interpretation.

[BigMark]

LOL, I love the in bed part, I've been telling people about that for years. It mostly works as long as it's a fortune and not something stupid. Those cookies have gotten worse over the years.. the fortunes at least.

Pineapple shrimp fried rice? Never heard of it, funny as I used to eat chinese all the time. I guess that's the beauty of the local places. Combo lomein is the bomb everywhere though.

[RoastBeastFan]

Yes that's a local place, not a chain, as the plain brown paper bag implies. I've never seen that dish anywhere else, I'm pretty sure they invented it. It's good though. They're primarily Chinese, but they also have Vietnamese and Thai dishes. Everything I've had there is good.

I agree, fortunes aren't what they used to be. And, looking at the one I got today, I can see why they don't put them in MREs. That's an amusing fortune here and now, but I wouldn't want to get it in a war zone.

[DangerousDave]

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[ateZEROate]

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