It was always Homer Simpson who believed most in the prophetic power of fortune cookies. Dining out with glamorous co-worker Mindy at "Madam Chao's, the sexiest Chinese restaurant in Capital City", the cookie telling him he would find happiness with a new love left him in tears. He thought fate had decreed he must cheat on his wife.
Mindy tried to reassure him that desserts weren't always right. "But they're so sweet!" Homer wailed.
His faith in the biscuits will no doubt now be superseded by that of the 110 US lottery players who each won a $100,000 share of the jackpot with five numbers found in fortune cookies.
CNN reports that lottery officials could not work out why they had such a high number of winners - until winner after winner revealed where the successful combination was from. Sing Lee, the president of Wonton Food, which makes 4m cookies a day, said the company folded up numbers and picked them at random out of a basket. Who says desserts can't sometimes be right?
