Klarinet Archive - Posting 000633.txt from 1998/02

From: JohnnyWalt@-----.com
Subj: good cookie recipe (fwd)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:41:52 -0500

>
>>ABSOLUTELY TRUE
>>
>>"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) 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
>>that 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 ever 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 dollars 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 cupssugar,
>>5 cups blended oatmeal,
>>24 oz. chocolatechips,
>>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).
>>
>>Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. 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.
>>
>>Enjoy cooking the most expensive cookie in the world - FREE !! THIS IS
>>TRUE----PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT AND PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY
>>PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS.
>>