That is the joke. The recipe is really bad. All that flour and blended
oatmeal, whatever that is, a total of 9 cups, with only 2 cups of sugar
would make cakey lumps of tasteless gunk. Only 24 oz of chocolate chips? And
why grate the Hershey bar? ...totally stupid recipe. For only $100 bucks you
can have one of mine.
Tom, who is the baker in our house.
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It seems to me that the most important issue is that of the recipe. Has
anyone
tried it? Is it any good? Is there such a thing as a bad chocolate chip
cookie?
Have we had every discussion known to mankind concerning track and field?
John
George Cole wrote:
THIS IS NOT A TRUE STORY and should not be on this list even if it
was!!!
This same true story has been passed around for years - by word of
mouth
before the internet.
George
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Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: recipe
Another true story?
It figures, another large corporation trying to screw
the little man -
this
should teach them! Pass it on - it is one way to
get them back
This is great.
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
