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Randall writes from California, reporting that around 1900 a Japanese gardener in San Francisco started serving cookies with thank you notes inside at that city's Japanese garden.
The cookies caught on, and the local Chinese community began serving them at the end of Chinese meals.
These reportedly became the first fortune cookies.
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