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Can this really be true????

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ThePinkGoose
In Your Hands

Member since 8/08

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Nunya

Can this really be true????

I just found this floating around Myspace....can this be true?? $250 for a cookie recipe?!?!?!!!!


When decent people get screwed over, this is the result!

A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is
a very expensive store; I.e., they sell your typical $8.

00 T-shirt for
$50.00.



Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!

My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus
Cafe In Dallas, and we 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, but you can buy The Recipe.

' Well, I asked how much, and
she responded, ' Only two fifty - it's a Great deal!' I agreed to that,
and told her to just add it to my Tab.



Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-
Marcus Charge 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 was Outrageous! I called Neiman's
Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was
'two-fifty', which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty
dollars' by any reasonable 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 the Accounting
Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the State
of Texas .

I threatened to report them to the Better Business Bureau
and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud.

I was
basically told, 'Do what you want.

Don't bother thinking of how you
can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money Back.

'
I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm going to have
$250 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
cookie recipe From Neiman-Marcus...for free.

She replied, 'I wish you
wouldn't do this.

' I said, 'Well, perhaps you should have thought of
that before you ripped me off!' and slammed down the phone.



So here it is!

Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.


I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make
another penny off of this recipe!


NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
2 cups butter
24 oz.

Chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp.

Soda
1 tsp.

Salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz.

Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
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.



PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY
PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!
THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!

Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to
them and ask them to pass it on.

Let's make sure we get this
ladies $250.00 worth. Enjoy the cookies, they really are good .

Posted 12/4/08 10:14 PM
 
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Shelly
She's 7!!!

Member since 8/05

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Re: Can this really be true????

Its a myth, but a good cookie recipe.

Snopes

Message edited 12/4/2008 10:17:35 PM.

Posted 12/4/08 10:15 PM
 

ThePinkGoose
In Your Hands

Member since 8/08

4706 total posts

Name:
Nunya

Re: Can this really be true????

Chat Icon My husband is constantly telling me he 'has a bridge for sale....' Chat Icon

Posted 12/4/08 10:23 PM
 

mikeandjess
LIF Adult

Member since 10/07

2278 total posts

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Re: Can this really be true????

it's not true. Neiman Marcus has the recipe on their website

Posted 12/4/08 10:46 PM
 

MrsPJB2007
MBA at your service!

Member since 7/06

12020 total posts

Name:
MJ

Re: Can this really be true????

Posted by AnaMaree77

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remember -- whenever something like this pops up in your email and such--Snopes.com is your best friend. Chat Icon

I think this one has been going on for about 10 years now. I remember first seeing it in college around 97 or so

Posted 12/4/08 11:23 PM
 

tourist

Member since 5/05

10425 total posts

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Re: Can this really be true????

I think that was the first email forward I ever received! I may still have it printed out on that green & white striped perforated printer paper from the mid-90s.
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It is a good recipe though. I recommend grinding the oatmeal in a coffee bean grinder.

Message edited 12/5/2008 12:44:34 AM.

Posted 12/5/08 12:42 AM
 
 

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