.....Gentlemen, and I must say, Ladies, and welcome, please forgive the "de-nuxxxd", this story is reputed to be an Urban Legend, and I'm sure many of you are familiar with it.....Urban Legend---from the suburbs and not true, if you will....but, what you need to do is, run a copy of the recipe and the all-important, "methods", and BEG, your wife to make the cookies, asap, with emphasis on, asap....(it's the ground up oatmeal)......
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.
