$ 250 cookie recipe!!
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My daughter-in-law & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe
in
Atlanta (on Marcus Joseph Dover Ave.) & decided to have a small dessert.
Because both of us are such cookie lovers (who isn't?), we decided to
try
the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie". It was so excellent that I asked if they
would
give me the recipe. The waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid I
can't do that."
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."
Heck, that's the price of a regular, ol' bag of cookies!
Thirty days later, I received my Mastercard statement from Neiman-Marcus
and it
was $269.00. I looked again and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for
two chicken
salads and about $9.00 for a hat pin. 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. Nieman-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 Georgia,
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 s--t, 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 dollars for this... I don't want
Nieman-Marcus to *ever* get another penny off of this recipe....
$250 DOLLAR COOKIE RECIPE:
2 cups butter
4 tsp. flour
2 cups soda
2 tbsp. sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal **
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
4 egg whites
1/2 cup Morgan's Rum
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla
** Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
Cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs, rum 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.
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<br> My daughter-in-law & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus
Cafe in
<br>Atlanta (on Marcus Joseph Dover Ave.) & decided to have a small
dessert.
<br>Because both of us are such cookie lovers (who isn't?), we decided
to try
<br>the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie". It was so excellent that I asked if they
would
<br>give me the recipe. The waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid
I
<br>can't do that."
<p>Well, I said, would you let me ^buy^ the recipe? With a cute smile,
she
<br>said, "Yes."
<p>I asked how much, and she responded, "Only two fifty, it's a great deal!"
I
<br>said with approval, "just add it to my tab."
<p>Heck, that's the price of a regular, ol' bag of cookies!
<p>Thirty days later, I received my Mastercard statement from Neiman-Marcus
<br>and it
<br>was $269.00. I looked again and I remembered I had only spent $9.95
for
<br>two chicken
<br>salads and about $9.00 for a hat pin. As I glanced at the bottom of
the
<br>statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe - $250.00." That's outrageous!!
<p>I called Neiman's Accounting Dept. and told them the waitress said it
was
<br>"two-fifty," which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars"
by
<br>any *POSSIBLE* interpretation of the phrase. Nieman-Marcus refused
to
<br>budge. They would not refund my money, because according to them, "What
the
<br>waitress told you is not our problem. You have already seen the recipe
- we
<br>absolutely will not refund your money at this point."
<p>I explained to her the criminal statutes which govern fraud in Georgia,
I
<br>threatened to refer them to the Better Business Bureau and the State's
<br>Attorney General for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what
you
<br>want, we don't give a s--t, and we're not refunding your money."
<p>I waited, thinking of how I could get even, or even try and get any
of my
<br>money back. I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm
going to
<br>have $250.00 worth of fun."
<p>I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover in
the
<br>United States with an e-mail account has a $250.00 cookie recipe from
<br>Neiman-Marcus... for FREE! She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this."
I
<br>said, "Well, you should have thought of that before you ripped me off,"
and
<br>slammed down the phone on her.
<p>So, here it is!!! Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you
can
<br>possibly think of. I paid $250 dollars for this... I don't want
<br>Nieman-Marcus to *ever* get another penny off of this recipe....
<p>$250 DOLLAR COOKIE RECIPE:
<br>2 cups butter
<br>4 tsp. flour
<br>2 cups soda
<br>2 tbsp. sugar
<br>5 cups blended oatmeal **
<br>24 oz. chocolate chips
<br>1 tsp. salt
<br>1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
<br>4 egg whites
<br>1/2 cup Morgan's Rum
<br>2 tsp. baking powder
<br>3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
<br>2 tsp. vanilla
<p>** Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
<p>Cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs, rum and vanilla; mix together
with
<br>flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips,
Hershey
<br>Bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie
sheet.
<br>Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
<p>Makes 112 cookies.
<br>
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Mbridger
fun...@bellsouth.net
so so be ti.
larry
jod...@amh.auracom.com
didn't know this was considered clogging (whatever that means), but if
so so be ti.
Why are you clogging the net with this old chestnut.
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Nothing to do with bridge-see why so few left in this
group.
GET A LIFE
xaikat
Jim[and kats]
fun...@bellsouth.net
Thank you for the kind words
For those who leave or those who stay, it still is their prerogative, unless you
are ready to pay the bill for all of us.
Haven't seen any input by you before, so please enlighten us all as to what
group you are referring to and to how you were able to access the total # of
subscribers.
"GET A LIFE" , looks like this a good consideration, but when are you planning
to implement it!
larry
JHCummins2
again some of us do----and great cookies are one of life's pleasures even at
the bridge table :-))
paul...@earthlink.net
Will use it at my next bridge party (humans do still get together!)
Paul (paulryan)
br...@meadows.pair.com
wrote:
>didn't know this was considered clogging (whatever that means), but if
>so so be ti.
>larry
Whether you think it's clogging or not, Larry, the cookie story is one
of the oldest net hoaxes going around. At the time the story surfaced,
the cafe says it didn't sell cookies, let alone recipes, although
they've added cookies to their menu because so many people were asking
about them.
In the hopes of saving us all multiple repetitions of the posting, if
you (or anyone else) wants further info on the hoax, point a browser
at CNet's site, where they ran a recent article on the top 10 net
hoaxes of all time.
The URL for the cookie hoax is
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reports/Trends/Nethoaxes/ss05.html?st.cn.nws.rl.cn
Brian.
(okb: brian_m)
nick straguzzi
take care of some minor errands. Like sending your business card to
the dying boy wishing to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
You might also want to scan your incoming e-mail for the insidious
GOOD TIMES virus (if you so much as make eye contact with the
attachment it will erase your hard drive, sterilize your cat, and
upload all your personal information to Communist China!) But if
you're lucky, there will be a generous offer from the Walt Disney
Company offering you a free Disney World vacation if you merely
forward the e-mail to 100 friends.
Still baking? Good. Hop into the bathroom and check your back in the
mirror. If you see a scar, one of your kidneys may have been stolen!!
(Been having drinks in a bar with a mysterious South American woman
lately?) While you're at it, if you have a beehive hairdo you might
also want to check for a tarantula nest. And let's not forget to look
for any pinpricks you might have on your fingers, say from reaching
into a pay phone's coin return slot containing a used hypodermic
needle wrapped in a message reading "Welcome to the world of AIDS!"
Ah, the cookies are done! Time for a snack. Don't eat them with Pop
Rocks and soda though -- your stomach may explode, like what happened
to poor Mikey from the original "Life" cereal commercial. Better to
just curl up in front of the TV with some great old movies. But not
"The Little Mermaid", not after what that disgruntled Disney animator
deliberately drew into the spires of King Triton's castle! Pop on the
Wizard Of Oz, put Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon on the stereo
(you know, they wrote it specifically to be an alternate soundtrack to
the movie!), and look for the scene in which the Munchkin hangs
himself in the background scenery. That's great fun!
Boy those cookies are good. You ought to take a few to Mom, even
though its getting late. After all, she's still a little spooked over
what happened to her last week in Las Vegas. A big black man got on
the elevator with her, with a huge dog on a leash, and when he said
"Sit Lady", Mom just freaked out and sat on the ground. (She didn't
recognize it was Reggie Jackson!) Just be careful not to flash your
headlights at any oncoming car with its lights out -- they'll follow
you home and kill you as part of a gang initiation rite.
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Larry & Co., the cookie story is a very popular Internet hoax/urban
legend, just like all of the stuff in my little story above. (Yes,
ALL OF THEM are untrue, no matter what any friend-of-a-friend claims
to the contrary.) However, the recipe does make decent chocolate chip
cookies so by all means give it a try. Don't believe everything you
read on the Internet, and please don't forward these
too-good-to-be-true stories without checking them out first. Those of
us who've been on the 'Net for a decade or more have seen them each a
billion times, and they really do get exasperating after a while.
Check out www.urbanlegends.com if you're interested in reading about
urban legends.
Best,
Nick
nick_s on OKB
On 1 Mar 1999 05:34:41 GMT, fun...@bellsouth.net wrote:
>Thank you for the kind words
>For those who leave or those who stay, it still is their prerogative, unless you
>are ready to pay the bill for all of us.
>Haven't seen any input by you before, so please enlighten us all as to what
>group you are referring to and to how you were able to access the total # of
>subscribers.
>"GET A LIFE" , looks like this a good consideration, but when are you planning
>to implement it!
>larry
>
>
>Jodrey wrote:
>
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>> Nothing to do with bridge-see why so few left in this
>> group.
>> GET A LIFE
>> xaikat
>>
>>
>> Jim[and kats]
>
>
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jod...@amh.auracom.com
Thank you for the kind words
For those who leave or those who stay, it still is their prerogative,
unless you
are ready to pay the bill for all of us.
What bill? With rare exceptions,wouldn`t be worth a plugged nickel.
>Haven't seen any input by you before,>> Is it my fault you don`t read my
posts?
Might even learn something.
I cherfully pay my OK subs,and will continue to do so.
>"GET A LIFE" , looks like this a good consideration, but when are you
planning
>to implement it!>> Happy in my ignorance-are you?
Jodrey wrote:
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fun...@bellsouth.net
and please continue to provide any input you desire.
always happy to learn something, but main difficulty with poster like yourself,
is really having something significant to say.
and if ignorance is bless, then looks like you can continue being ecstatic.
larry
mac...@mediaone.net
Larry - Why are you talking to yourself Discuss. You have finally hit the
big time. You write a note, then respond to yourself. That is funny.
jimm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:fun...@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 9:36 PM
> To: dis...@okbridge.com
> Subject: Re: $ 250 cookie recipe!!
>
>
> Don't have a clue as to what you are rambling on about!
> and please continue to provide any input you desire.
> always happy to learn something, but main difficulty with poster
> like yourself,
> is really having something significant to say.
> and if ignorance is bless, then looks like you can continue being
> ecstatic.
> larry
V. Bards
<large snip>
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa071397.htm?pid=2733&cob=home
All the Ingredients of a Legend
Dateline: 07/13/97
This is a "true story" almost everyone has heard by now -- the infamous
"$250 Cookie Recipe," most recently associated with the Neiman Marcus
company, but which, all through the 1980s, was the bane of Mrs. Fields.
By the way, the story is not true. It's a classic urban legend.
It appears to be a variant of a popular tale that Jan Brunvand has traced
back as far as 1948, when the overpriced recipe produced a fudge cake,
and the amount allegedly charged was $25. The current
adjusted-for-inflation version (reproduced below) is still making the email
rounds and shows no signs of waning, even though it has been debunked
again and again over the past ten years.
Are you one of the gullible ones who has forwarded this story to someone
else? Gotcha!
<story snipped>
Again, despite the admonition at the end, this is not a true story. Please
don't pass it along.
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How was the holiday on Mars, Larry? Do share your snaps with us.
(By the way, please don't post the 'It Takes Guts To Say Jesus' one either --
that's a hoax, too, though not _quite_ as ancient as this one.)
Bards
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Funpro, there are two excellent sources of information on many of
the things that get passed around the net.
www.ubanlegends.com
and www.snopes.com
I would suggest that any time you receive an email which suggests
that you pass it on "to everyone you know", you check these
sources to see if it is a known scam before acting.
BTW, they are also very interesting and humorous sites.
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