NY- That’s the way the fortune cookie crumbles.
Guests at a Chinese New Year event hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz got an eyeful after cracking open fortune cookies with messages more likely penned by Bob Guccione than Confucius.
“Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad – triple-X,” said an embarrassed Markowitz of the 350 bawdy cookies that somehow got mixed in with otherwise G-rated Brooklyn-boosting slogans Tuesday night.
Fortunes like “One good [expletive] deserves another” and other sexually explicit phrases turned the Year of Dog celebration at the Ming Gee restaurant into a blushfest.
Although fortune cookie company Dai Hing Lee Corp. successfully delivered about 1,400 cookies with sayings like “Brooklyn: In your face and in your heart,” many of the 700 guests saw the dirty cookies, too.
Ming Gee owner Larance Yeung apologized for the error, which employees of the Sunset Park restaurant blamed on the fortune cookie company next-door.
“I can easily speculate that those cookies were intended for some guy’s bachelor party,” said American Media President Kenneth Hochman, who attended the Markowitz bash.
The event, a fund-raiser to send poor kids to summer camp, was a success despite the unfortunate fortune cookies: 68 children will be heading to summer camp in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
“It’s nothing that Brooklynites can’t handle,” Dr. Daniel Ricciardi, chief of rheumatology at Long Island College Hospital, said of the cookie caper.
“If it happened at an uptown Chinese restaurant on the upper East Eide, it would have been a travesty,” he added. “But this is Brooklyn. We shake it off.”