Neiman- Marcus Cookie Recipe

Muus

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Ich lach mich gerade scheckig... :totlach...

A little background:

Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is a very expensive boutique
shop (they sell a typical $8.00 T-shirt for $50.00)

My daughter and I had just finished lunch at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in
Dallas , USA . Because both of us are such biscuit lovers, we decided to
try the 'Neiman-Marcus cookie'. It was so excellent that I asked if they
would give me the recipe. The waitress said with a small frown, 'I'm
afraid not, but you can buy the recipe.'
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I asked how much, and she responded; 'Only two fifty - it's a great
deal'
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I agreed to that, and told her to add it to my bill.
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Thirty days later, I got my Visa statement, and the Neiman-Marcus charge
was $285. I looked at it again, and I remembered I had only spent $9.95
for two sandwiches and about $20 for a scarf. At the bottom of the
statement, it said, 'Cookie Recipe - $250.00'. That was outrageous!
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I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress had
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..
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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.. 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'
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I said, OK, you've 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 world with an e-mail account gets a $250 cookie recipe from
Neiman-Marcus for free. She replied, 'I wish you wouldn't do that.' I
said, 'Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before you RIPPED
ME OFF!' and slammed down the phone.
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So here it is! 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 from this recipe!
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NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved as this makes heaps)
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2 (500 ml) cups butter
680 g chocolate chips
4 (1000 ml) cups flour
2 (500 ml) cups brown sugar
2 tsp.... (10 ml) Bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp. (5 ml) salt
2 (500 ml) cups sugar
500 g Grated Cadbury chocolate
5 (1250 ml) cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. (10 ml) baking powder
2 tsp. (10 ml) vanilla
3 cups (375 ml) chopped nuts (optional)
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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 bicarbonate of soda. Add chocolate
chips, grated Chocolate and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches
apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees ( 180 C ).
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The above quantities make 112 cookies. Enjoy!

PLEASE KEEP THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!


Und yup.. Ich weiss, dass dies ein Fake ist.. aber .. hey.. ein cookie recipe ist es auf jedenfall :totlach
 
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:up :up :up sehr nett zu lesen :danke fuer den Lacher :totlach
 

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Es gibt Kettenbriefe, da wünscht man sich, das sie wahr wären - dieser hier ist einer davon :D

Übrigens steht das offizielle cookie-receipe auch auf der HP von Neimann Marcus ;) :
Neiman Marcus - Fashion's premier designers, plus beauty's best brands

Tja, wenn man das wuesste, was war zuerst da? Das Huhn oder das Ei? Vielleicht haben sie es ja in der Form veroeffentlicht, nachdem der Kettenbrief in Umlauf gegangen ist, um ihn unglaubwuerdig zu machen... und in Wirklichkeit stimmt die story doch...who knows???
Aber ist ja auch egal, witzig ist es auf jeden Fall:winke

Und...das gute an diesem Kettenbrief ist, dass man nicht in 10 Tagen stirbt oder grosses Unglueck hat oder aehnliches, wenn man ihn nicht in den naechsten 10 Minuten an mindestens 200 Leute weiterschickt ;)
 
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Muus

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Also die Story stimmt nicht.. die war in den 60'er wohl schon mal so in der Art unterwegs.. mit ner anderen Firma

The Neiman Marcus / Mrs. Fields / $250 Cookie Recipe - Urban Legend

Comments: Here is a "true story" almost everyone has heard by now, generically known as "The $250 Cookie Recipe" and most recently associated with the Neiman Marcus company, though during the 1980s it was the bane of cookie diva Mrs. Fields.


If you hadn't figured it out already, it is not really true, by the way. It's a classic urban legend — a variant of a popular tale traced by folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand as far back as 1948, when the ridiculously expensive recipe yielded a red velvet fudge cake attributed to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (asking price for that recipe: $25).

The current adjusted-for-inflation version (reproduced above) is still making the email rounds and its popularity shows no signs of waning, even though it has been debunked repeatedly over the past two decades. To paraphrase the ancient Klingon proverb, "Revenge is a dish best served warm out of the oven."
As to the recipe itself, I haven't tried the cookies, but by most accounts it yields damn good ones (and plenty of them). No one knows whose kitchen it came from, but we do know it wasn't the Neiman Marcus company, whose restaurants didn't even sell chocolate chip cookies back when this legend first began circulating. Neiman Marcus chefs did create a chocolate chip cookie recipe after the fact, however, which the company now distributes free of charge as an antidote, if you will, to this defamatory urban legend. Bon appetit!
 
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