True. A fortune cookie is a crisp cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside. A "fortune" is a piece of paper with words of wisdom, an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. Not everyone believes a cookie can tell one's fortune, but, undoubtedly, it's always fun to open one of them!

Note from history: Fortune cookies were invented in San Francisco. Makoto Hagiwara, an American of Japenese origin, is reported to have been the first person in the United States to have served the modern version of the cookie. It happened in the 1890s or early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.

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