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One history of the fortune cookie claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, invented the cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets.
This is a 19th century innovation by a man named Doumak who patented the extrusion process (the manner in which they are made) in 1948. Marshmallow candy dates back to ancient Egypt where it was a honey-based. candy flavored and thickened with the sap of the root of the. Marsh-Mallow plant (althea officinalis).