picture description: This is a food item called a fortune cookie.  They are served in Chinese restaurants.  The cookie is a vanilla sugar dough.  The fortune is written on a piece of paper and placed inside.  Humans break open the cookie and read the fortunes.  Sometimes, the fortunes are wise advice such as "don't put off until tomorrow that which you can do today," and sometimes they are predictions of the future, such as "you will die from food poisoning tonight."