RFK Jr. is hoping voters with a sweet tooth will push him over the edge in New Hampshire.
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(Concord, NH) – If you live in the Granite State, you might be lucky enough to receive a free fortune cookie in the coming days. That’s because the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sending 100,000 of the treat to restaurants in New Hampshire. There are ads affixed to the cookies promoting the Kennedy Jr. campaign — his representatives describe the move as a unique way to reach out to voters.
The campaign says this echoes the unique ways JFK and RFK reached out to voters. Inside the cookies there are QR codes that will lead recipients to RFK Jr.’s website. If you don’t live in New Hampshire — don’t worry — the campaign may end up sending out the cookies to other parts of the country.
By the way — as for the history of the fortune cookie — although many people associate it with Chinese food, it actually traces its roots to 19th-century Japan and 20th-century America. Going back to 1870, there are records of the vanilla-flavored, crescent-shaped cookies being sold at confectionary shops in Kyoto, Japan. From there, immigrants brought them to the US via Hawaii and Japan, including during the early 1900s.
