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I got this e-mail, its probably not true but i felt like showing you all!:
Expensive Cookie Recipe...
Pass this on! You have to pass this on..... just for the principal
of the thing.
Expensive Cookie Recipe...
Pass this on! You have to pass this on..... just for the principal
of the thing.
Every once in a while I have to smile when a big company is taught
a lesson by a thinking citizen.
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 receipe.
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 statues 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 and Canada 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!
Have fun!!!