fortune cookie

First attested in 1942 (see quotations below).

The slang sense is from the canine vulva resembling the cleft shape of the snack.

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fortune cookie (plural fortune cookies)

1. A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.
   • 1942 May 8, The Carmel Pine Cone‎^[1]:

     […] the Chinese atmosphere of the afternoon was pleasantly deepened with real Chinese tea, fortune cookies and honest to goodness ginger which Mrs. Palmtag managed to find some place (in Monterey) […]

   • 1942 July, House & Garden‎^[2]:

     For dessert, a dish of preserved fruits—perhaps Chinese kumquats, each speared with its individual toothpick, and a plate of Chinese fortune cookies (Mai Ping), crisp, thin, folded rice cakes, each containing a little slip of paper with a lucky proverb or fortune.

   • 2006, “Courtesy Laughs”, in It's Never Been Like That, performed by Phoenix:

     I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind

   • 2009, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Stripmalling, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     “The Chinese restaurant code. It states that the fortune cookie is not to be taken lightly. Now what do you mean to be doing with this fortune cookie anyway, lad?”

2. (computing) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
3. (furry fandom, slang) The vulva of canine species.
   • 2025 July 27, @talkshowghost.com, Bluesky‎^[3] (post), archived from the original on 17 March 2026:

     that's why I love wearing a skirt with no underwear! plus if you see someone cute you can flash them your plump juicy fortune cookie and tease them when they get an obvious bulge with a wet spot :3

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