Neiman-Marcas Cookie Recipe

Did anyone ever get that cookoie recipe e-mail with the $250.00 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcas? I was wondering if it is true or an urban legend.

Here is a copy of the e-mail

If ya love choco-chip cookies as much as I do..........
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>Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe (Pay Back)
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> >Perhaps this is a little vindictive but every once in
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> >a while I have to smile when a big company is taught a
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> >lesson by a thinking citizen.
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> >A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know
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> >already, is a very expensive store; i.e., they sell
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> >your typical $8.00 T-shirt for $50.00.
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> >Let's let them have it!
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> >THIS IS A TRUE STORY
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> >My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a
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> >Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas , and we decided to have
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> >a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie
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> >lovers, we decided to try the 'Neiman-Marcus cookie.
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> >It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me
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> >the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown,
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> >'I'm afraid not, but you can buy the recipe.'
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> >Well, I asked how much, and she responded, 'Only two
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> >fifty - it's a great deal!' I agreed to that, and told
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> >her to just add it to my tab.
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> >Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and
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> >the Neiman-Marcus charge was $285.00! I looked again,
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> >and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two salads
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> >and about $20.00 for a scarf.As I glanced at the bottom of the
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> >statement, it said,
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> >'Cookie Recipe-$250.00'.
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> >That was outrageous!
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> >I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them
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> >the waitress said it was ' two fifty ', which clearly
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> >does not mean 'two hundred and fifty dollars' by any
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> >reasonable interpretation of the phrase. Neiman-Marcus
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> >refused to budge.
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> >They would not refund my money because,according to
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> >them, 'What the waitress told you is not our problem.
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> >You have already seen the recipe. We absolutely will
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> >not refund your money at this point.' I explained to
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> >the Accounting Department lady the criminal statues
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> >which govern fraud in the state of Texas . I
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> >threatened to report them to the Better Business
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> >Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for
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> >engaging in fraud. I was basically told, 'do what you
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> >want'.
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> >Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and
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> >don't bother trying to get any of your money back.' I
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> >just said, 'Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm
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> >going to have $250 worth of fun.' I told her that I
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> >was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the
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> >United States with an e-mail account has a $250 cookie
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> >recipe from Neiman-Marcus...for free.
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> >She replied, 'I wish you wouldn't do this.' I said,
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> >'Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before
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> >you ripped me off!' and slammed down the phone.
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> >So here it is! Please, please, please pass it on to
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> >everyone you can possibly think of. I paid $250 for
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> >this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make
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> >another penny off of this recipe!
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>NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
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> >2 cups butter
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> >24 oz. chocolate chips
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> >4 cups flour
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> >2 cups brown sugar
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> >2 tsp. soda
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> >1 tsp. salt
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> >2 cups sugar
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> >1- 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
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> >5 cups blended oatmeal
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> >4 eggs
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> >2 tsp. baking powder
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> >2 tsp. vanilla
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> >3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
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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 soda.
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>Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar, and nuts. Roll into
>balls,and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
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>Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.
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Neiman-Marcus Cookie Urban Legend


I found out it is an urban legend, but I'm glad to hear someone made the cookies it sounds like a good recipe.

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/nmAbout.jhtml;jsessionid=QJYE3UFQKNGICCQAAJWR5PIKAABG2IAQ#cookie

neiman marcus website lists their real recipe