Death by fortune cookie.
What is a fortune cookie?
Wikipedia sez: 'The fortune cookie is a cookie with a piece of paper inside with words of wisdom or prophecy, sometimes served at Chinese restaurants throughout the United States and Canada.'
Ok, that makes some sense to it. Chinese food back home takes on a wholly different taste due to the addition of spices suited to the Indian palate. And there are no cortune cookies. One would assume that you do not want/need your fortune told. We have fakirs for that anyway. But yes, fortune cookies. My acquaintance with these things is relatively new. Not being a great fan of Chinese cooking, it is only when all other options fail that I have had to eat Chinese food only to be told something like 'Honesty will bring rich rewards'. E^n????
So to a brain as garbled as mine, naturally the fortune cookie suggests itself as a device with endless possibilities for subversion. Imagine the propaganda value!! Ages ago, I was reading the memoirs of an Allied bomber pilot who spent three years in a POW camp after being shot down over Germany. He whiled away idle hours by raising bees and releasing them to fly away with tiny messages tied to their legs. The messages were on the lines of 'Hitler kaput'... well, you get the idea...
Anyway, imagine what one could do with an infiltrator in a fortune cookie bakery. Just substitute those silly messages that one gets with something like 'you will be strangled by rice noodles (hakka, not gravy)' or 'the path to your success will be littered with the bodies of your loved ones', or to change note 'long live the penguin!!!'...
Like i said, endless possibilities....
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