I love cookies, I hope you do, too.
Linda
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Date: 97-10-10 08:08:24 EDT
Denn Bottorff wrote:
Just in time for Christmas!!
I received this from a friend who asked me to pass it along to everyone I
>knew who had an E-mail address, what a better way to send it.
>Subject: Cookie Recipe
>
>Neiman-Marcus Cookies
>
>THIS IS TRUE----PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT AND PLEASE SEND THIS
>TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS....THIS IS
REALLY
>TERRIFIC.
>
>My daughter & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas
&
>decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such
cookie
lovers,
>we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie."
>
>{EDITORIAL COMMENT: Neiman's is a VERY EXPENSIVE department store in the
>States}.
>It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe and the
>waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not."
>
>Well, I said, would you let me buy the recipe? With a cute smile, she
said,
>"Yes." I asked how much, and she responded, "Only
two fifty, it's a great
>deal!" I said with approval, just add it to my tab.
>
>Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus and
>it was $285.00. I looked again and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for
>two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As I glanced at the bottom of the
>statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe - $250.00"
>
>That's outrageous!!
>
>I called Neiman's Accounting Dept. and told them the waitress said it was
>"two-fifty," which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty
dollars"
by
>any *POSSIBLE* interpretation of the phrase.
>
>Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money, because
>according to them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem. You
have
>already seen the recipe - we absolutely will not refund your
money at this
>point." I explained to her the criminal statutes which govern fraud in
>Texas, I threatened to refer them to the Better Business Bureau and the
>State's Attorney General for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do
>what you want, we don't give a crap, and we're not refunding your
money."
I
>waited, thinking of how I could get even, or even try and get any
of my
money
>back. I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250, and
>now I'm going to have $250.00 worth of fun." I told her that I was going
to
>see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with an
e-mail
account
>has a $250.00 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus...for free.
>
>She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this." I said, "Well, you
should have
>thought of that before you ripped me off," and slammed down the phone on
her.
>
>So here it is!!! Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can
>possibly think of. I paid $250 for this...I don't want Neiman-Marcus to
ever
>get another penny off of this recipe....
>
>(Recipe may be halved)
>
>2 cups butter
>4 cups flour
>2 tsp. soda
>2 cups sugar
>5 cups blended oatmeal (Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine
>powder.)
>24 oz. chocolate chips
>2 cups brown sugar
>1 tsp. salt
>1- 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
>4 eggs
>2 tsp. baking powder
>2 tsp. vanilla
>3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
>
>Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with
>flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips,
Hershey
>Bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a
cookie
sheet.
>
>Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.
>
>Have fun!!!
>
>This is not a joke --- this is a true story. Ride free citizens!