Delicious Destiny

September 19, 2010

Tray of fortune cookies at a factory in Chinatown - San Francisco, California, USA - Daily Travel Photos
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A tray of finished fortune cookies at a fortune cookie factory in Chinatown (ARCHIVED PHOTO - on the weekends).

In the background is the revolving cookie template. Fortune cookies begin their lives as flat malleable pancakes which get contorted by an underpaid migrant laborer into a familiar half-moon shape. The fortune is inserted while the laborer twists the cookie into form.

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Conveyor fortune cookie machine in Chinatown - San Francisco, California, USA - Daily Travel Photos
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The circular templates of a fortune cookie manufacturing machine (ARCHIVED PHOTO - on the weekends).

The bottom portion of the two-sided template clamps upwards (like a shark's mouth) to form a flat malleable pancake.

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