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Cat Crackers Will Make You Forget All About Fortune Cookies

There's A New Fortune Cookie For Cat Lovers
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Felissimo

In Japanese culture, cats are a symbol of good fortune and wealth, so it's no real surprise these Japanese "fortune cookies" have been designed with little kitties inside.

Online candy shop Felissimo is now selling triangular rice crackers with tiny cat statues inside. For ¥ 2,200, (about $24 CDN), you get two crackers and one bag of karinto — sweet sticks made of flour, brown sugar and yeast.

And while the cat figurines might look sweet enough to eat, they aren't actually edible. According to the website, the figures are made from wood and are handcrafted with different shapes and expressions.

Would you prefer these cat crackers in your take out meal? Let us know in the comments below.

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While the origin of the fortune cookie is a little murky, it is strongly believed to have begun in Japan, not China. (credit:Flickr: puzzledmonkey)
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Three billion fortune cookies are made each year around the world and the vast majority of them are used for consumption in the United States. (credit:Flickr: FHKE)
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The cookies are baked as flat circles. After they are removed from the oven, fortunes are folded inside while the cookies are still warm and flexible. As the fortune cookies cool, they harden into shape. (credit:Flickr: antjeverena)
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The largest manufacturer of fortune cookies is Wonton Food Inc., headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. They make over 4.5 million fortune cookies per day. (credit:Flickr: Joelk75)
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Donald Lau VP of Wonton Food was responsible for writing the cookie's fortunes. After writing thousands of fortunes, he developed a bad case of writer's block in 1995 and the company set out to hire their first official fortune cookie writer. (credit:Flickr: C.P.Storm)
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Wonton Food has a database of over 15,000 fortunes. (credit:Flickr: Upupa4me)
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Numbers from a fortune cookie fortune have been reported to win the lottery. (credit:Flickr: Silus Grok)
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Some fortune cookie fortunes are so completely nonsensical because they are a direct translation of a Chinese proverb. (credit:Flickr: ccharmon)
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Thanks to technological advances (namely the Kitamura FCM-8006W) in fortune-cookie making, 8,000 cookies can be made in just one hour. (credit:Flickr: karen_neoh)
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