I looked it up. 90% of the fortune cookies in the USA are made by Wonton Food Inc. My guess is that company is the one making the decisions about ads on the fortunes. Everyone just buys them and puts them into their bags of food.
Restaurants don't make their own fortune cookies, that is true, but there's hundreds and hundreds of fortune cookie manufacturers in the US. Outside of chain restaurants, I'd wager most buy from local suppliers. Next time you get one, look up the manufacturer on the label
But there's another near-flavorless cracker whose production IS almost entirely centralized...The majority of the mass-produced communion wafers in the US are made by one company in Rhode Island.
Before FTX was shut down for their other sketchy behavior, they were advertising using fortune cookies. The fortune would be something saying to take a risk and the back was an ad for FTX. Most manipulative cookie I've ever had.
Stab a piece of a chicken and the chicken announces "This chicken was brought to you by the fine folks at Tyson Foods! Prepared with 30% less child labour."
About to carve into a nice, hunk of roast beef. Bam! "This beef was bought at [insert grocery store]. It's only made out of 27% cow. It's great for losing weight thanks to the [insert scam fab diet here].
Am I missing something? Was this supposed to be a video, or are you maybe trying to not reward them by showing the whole thing? If so, that's understandable, but regardless I don't know how to feel about it without seeing it. Are we just judging the concept?
16 Comments
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 91d
That's why I use an ad blocking extension and automatically reject advertising cookies.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 91d
No fuckin way would I eat at that restaurant again.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 91d
Me too. If they're cheaping out on fortune cookies what else might they be doing?
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 90d
The fact that your full-table order of Chinese food came out 3 minutes after your ordered it, should also be another red flag.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d
Restaurants aren't making their own fortune cookies my guy. I would bet that there are probably one or two major manufacturers in the country.
papalonian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 90d
But they chose to (assumedly) cheap out on getting fortune cookies from an advertiser rather than normal cookies.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
I looked it up. 90% of the fortune cookies in the USA are made by Wonton Food Inc. My guess is that company is the one making the decisions about ads on the fortunes. Everyone just buys them and puts them into their bags of food.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 90d
So the restaurant shouldn't buy those cookies.
glimse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
Restaurants don't make their own fortune cookies, that is true, but there's hundreds and hundreds of fortune cookie manufacturers in the US. Outside of chain restaurants, I'd wager most buy from local suppliers. Next time you get one, look up the manufacturer on the label
But there's another near-flavorless cracker whose production IS almost entirely centralized...The majority of the mass-produced communion wafers in the US are made by one company in Rhode Island.
_skj@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 90d
Before FTX was shut down for their other sketchy behavior, they were advertising using fortune cookies. The fortune would be something saying to take a risk and the back was an ad for FTX. Most manipulative cookie I've ever had.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d
Hmm. What other foods could you inject add into?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d
Etch a QR code into a flan
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 90d
Meat. How you may ask? Through Eldritch horrors.
Stab a piece of a chicken and the chicken announces "This chicken was brought to you by the fine folks at Tyson Foods! Prepared with 30% less child labour."
About to carve into a nice, hunk of roast beef. Bam! "This beef was bought at [insert grocery store]. It's only made out of 27% cow. It's great for losing weight thanks to the [insert scam fab diet here].
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 91d
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 90d
Am I missing something? Was this supposed to be a video, or are you maybe trying to not reward them by showing the whole thing? If so, that's understandable, but regardless I don't know how to feel about it without seeing it. Are we just judging the concept?
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 90d
Man I thought Drew Carey was doing good with the Price is Right but apparently not.