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>>>     Cookie Lovers, Start heating up your oven!
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>>>     This is a true story.   Pass it on!!!
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>>>     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
>>>     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 dollars for this... I don't
>>>     want Nieman-Marcus to *ever* get another penny off of this recipe....
>>>     (Recipe may be halved.):
>>>
>>>     $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.
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>>Har, har, har,  this is just the kind of thing that makes me wickedly
>>gleeful.  Enjoy!
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