| From: | Nightblade <wgreason@*****.OCIS.TEMPLE.EDU> |
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| Subject: | cookies for you, cookies for me.. (fwd) |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:42:26 -0500 |
exploitation in some small way :) *****
This is a true story. Pass it on!!!
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".
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. 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 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 *!@%, 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 cups flour
2 tsp. soda
2 cups sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal **
24 oz. chocolate chips
2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
4 eggs
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 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.
