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The Chork Is Our New Favorite Utensil Portmanteau

Although we have a special place in our heart for the lovable hybrid that is the spork, there’s a new utensil mash-up in town. It’s far from a new concept, but the chopsticks/fork combo, known as the Chork, may finally be going mainstream.

Panda Express appears ready to adopt the Chork as a to-go utensil option. So, chopstick-challenged food court-dwellers can still enjoy their Chinese-American fast food the way it was intended — with a half-assed attempt to use chopsticks, followed by shoveling food into their face via plastic fork. Only now more convenient.

And BREAKING: @PandaExpress is considering a move toward the “chork,” or the chopsticks/fork pic.twitter.com/s1hOQhxWKT

— Lisa Jennings (@livetodineout) August 10, 2016

[via Mental Floss and Eater]

Watch Chinese People Taste Panda Express For The First Time

If you’re not familiar with Panda Express… Try to picture your favorite Chinese restaurant being bought out by McDonald’s, the food Americanized even further, and then that ‘restaurant’ being placed in every mall food court in the country. Most likely next to a McDonald’s.

Well, as long as Panda Express is going to exist, Buzzfeed decided to have a little fun, by having a few Chinese people sit down for a taste test.

The results are unsurprisingly varied. Please watch…

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Misfortune Cookies

Who doesn’t look forward to finishing their Chinese take-out, just to get to their fortune cookie? And, with their flavorless exterior and fortune that usually makes no sense, it’s no wonder.

Misfortune Cookies are here to put the fun back in your post-meal cookie — with fortunes that not only make sense, but contain brutal honesty.

Messages such as “Right now is the best you’re ever going to feel. Misery awaits. Give up.” you’ll eventually learn to appreciate the cookies’ refreshing candor after your beef and broccoli. Check them out here.

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Fortune Cupcakes

If you still look forward to an inane message at the end of your meal, but don’t need the superfluous lottery numbers or language lessons, Fortune Cupcakes are here to help. With vague one-liners on the inside of your cupcake holder, you can get your end-of-meal encouragement — without all of the MSG. Hopefully there’s a message that reads “The cupcake craze will die soon.”

And if you’re into a little more advanced cupcakes, you can always go robotic.

[via GeekAlerts]