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  • Archive for June 4th, 2008

    Chinese takeout at the Next to Last Supper (Jesus was Jewish, after all)

    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

    Mae just sent me a hilarious picture of the Last Supper, except parodied with Chinese takeout and fortune cookies, called the Next to Last Supper. She found it at Middle Earth, her favorite store for art.  Some people would argue, this makes sense. After all, Jesus was Jewish.

    Mexican fortune cookies, called dichos

    Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

    The Los Angeles Times food section did a recent piece on taco-shaped fortune cookies. As Tom Miller writes, Dichos, as the cookies are called, have been appearing at restaurants — Mexican and others — in southern Arizona in a haphazard pattern in which word-of-mouth has far outpaced formal distribution. Raul and Marina Montaño, the Douglas, […]