Arizona couple with a taste for Mexico are smart cookies
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‘Don’t be surprised if, someday soon, following a meal at a Mexican restaurant, the server brings what looks like a taco-shaped fortune cookie with your check,’ writes Tom Miller in this L.A. Times story.
‘Crack open the cinnamon-scented wafer, and you’ll find a slip of paper printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other with a Mexican saying, or dicho. Example: La lengua del mal amigo, más corta que un cuchillo. (The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.)’
‘Dichos, as the cookies are called, have been appearing at restaurants in southern Arizona in a haphazard pattern in which word-of-mouth has far outpaced formal distribution. Raul and Marina Montaño, the Douglas, Ariz., couple who came up with the idea after a Chinese meal in March 2007, have been fielding calls for their product since they opened for business a little more than four months ago.’
-- Reed Johnson in Mexico City
