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Restaurant owner told to censor 'offensive' fortune cookies after factory mix-up (www.9news.com.au)
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A Sydney restaurant owner who sells gag fortune cookies has been told to censor her products after an awkward factory mix-up.

Nahji Chu, the owner of popular Vietnamese restaurant Lady Chu in Potts Point, in Sydney's inner-city, put through an order of profanity-laced fortune cookies for Valentine's Day.

She was shocked and slightly tickled to receive a response from her manufacturer who said they were no longer accepting "offensive" language after her messages were mistakenly mixed into other customer orders.

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In an email, the manufacturer said their other customers were "quite upset" to find Chu's messages inside their custom cookies at the end of last year.

"As a result, management have decided to no longer accept customised orders with offensive or expletive words," the email read.

Chu was told she could order empty cookies from her supplier and insert the funny messages herself.

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Some of Chu's fortune messages include, "The year of the Snake bears good fortune! Your divorce is coming soon" and "I only married you for your money you ugly c---."

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lol, so the company fucked up and that's somehow the customer's fault? Time to not be a customer of theirs any longer.

Personally I'd love to find something like this in my "fortune" cookie.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Time to not be a customer of theirs any longer.

Time to take Naughty Fortune Cookies to Dragons Den to make it a proper standalone business.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those are Unfortunate cookies

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Misfortune cookies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

order empty cookies from her supplier and insert the funny messages herself

That sounds like hours of work with a pair of tweezers that most people would not sign up for.

Could be kind of zen, though, like building a ship in a bottle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fortune cookies in the spirit of the Victorian era “Vinegar Valentines”. I like it.