Friday, October 5, 2007

Fortune Cookie Question?

Two of my colleagues and I are working on a project with school librarians in Bell County (Middlesboro and Pineville) through a Professional Education Fellows Program sponsored by EKU's College of Education. We will be spending 3 years traveling to Bell County and helping school librarians with various projects and initiatives. It is a pretty exciting project. For the first part of our project we traveled to each of the seven schools in the county to survey the school library and talk with the librarians. It was an eye opening adventure. Bell County is a beautiful part of Kentucky and we have enjoyed traveling the roads and seeing the mountains. (ok, well, two of us enjoyed the views while the other person did not take their eyes off the curvy roads).

We have since traveled to Bell County twice and each time we have chosen to each lunch in a local eatery. We can eat at Subway anywhere. On our second trip we were in Middlesboro and stopped to eat at a Chinese restaurant. The food was pretty good and you could not beat the price. Of course at the end of our meal we each received a fortune cookie and I always look forward to reading the fortune. I prefer to get fortunes that actually fortell something like: "you will come into a large sum of money" or "your life will be filled with happiness" you know a fortune. But, sometimes you get stuff like "be kind to your pets" or "money is the root of all evil" and I just don't think those are fortunes. Anyway, on this day I eagerly broke my cookie open, pulled out the little slip of paper and this is what it said:

Here we go: "Moo Shu Cereal" for breakfast with duck sauce.

Ok, What the heck does that mean??? Anyone??

Apparently I am not the only one who has received this fortune and has chosen to blog about it.
Here are some other perplexed people wondering what I am wondering.

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2 comments:

Blessed said...

It is the basis for a weird fortune cookie saying. Here we go."Moo Shu Cereal" for breakfast with duck sauce." This seems to be a pun for "mushy cereal" for breakfast.
Did you have mushy cereal for breakfast that morning???
Ha!

Ning Zou said...

I know Moo Shu is another way to say scrambled eggs in Chinese. So basically this is not a fortune but a breakfasts menu item :P