“‘That wasn’t chicken.’ Worst fortune cookie ever”
A fortune cookie is usually eaten at the end of a meal. A jocular fortune cookie message, “That wasn’t chicken,” has been printed on many images.
“Funny magazine ad for Sauza tequila’s ‘Life is hard—Your tequila shouldn’t be.’ Shows a diner reading a fortune-cookie fortune: ‘That wasn’t chicken’” was printed in the Detroit (MI) Free Press on December 3, 1996.
“No, worst fortune cookie ever would have been ‘that wasn’t chicken/” was posted on Twitter by Micheal Lake on March 29, 2010. “Worst Fortune Cookie Fortune EVER: That Wasn’t Chicken…...” was posted on Twitter by Lauren R-C on June 18, 2010.
8 July 1996, Advertising Age, “Sauza tequila ads portray more ‘harsh’ scenarios” by Todd Pruzan, pg. 29:
... fortune cookie bearing the message, “That wasn’t chicken.” .
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3 December 1996, Detroit (MI) Free Press, “Irritating vogue words are dying out! Not!” by Bob Talbert, pg. 7D, col. 6:
Funny magazine ad for Sauza tequila’s “Life is hard—Your tequila shouldn’t be.” Shows a diner reading a fortune-cookie fortune: “That wasn’t chicken.”
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4/12/97
I like the one that shows an empty plate with a pair of chopsticks resting on it and in the foreground there’s a dude opening up a fortune cookie that SAYS:
-that wasn’t chicken.
Twitter
Micheal Lake
@drooiid
Replying to @LuriaPetrucci
@CaliLewis no, worst fortune cookie ever would have been “that wasn’t chicken.”
11:07 PM · Mar 29, 2010·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Lauren R-C
@MyMonsterHaus
Worst Fortune Cookie Fortune EVER: That Wasn’t Chicken…...
12:59 AM · Jun 18, 2010·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
King
@BoucheDag2k
Uh oh. Opened a fortune cookie and the fortune read
“That wasn’t Chicken”
1:17 PM · Oct 12, 2010·Twitter Web Client
The Daily Meal
The 14 Funniest Fortune Cookie Fortunes Ever Found Slideshow
July 24, 2015
By Carlton Jared Lockett
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Fortune 10
That wasn’t chicken.
Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
“That wasn’t chicken.”
Worst fortune cookie ever.
5:04 PM · Jul 20, 2017·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
QT@Anon
@QTAnon1
“That wasn’t chicken.”
Worst fortune cookie ever?
3:30 AM · Jan 23, 2020·Twitter Web App
Reddit—3amjokes
Posted by u/Rav4xle June 27, 2020
“That wasn’t chicken.”
Worst fortune cookie ever.