Updated The month of january 15, 2016.
Circulating via email and social networking because the late 1990s, this is actually the "true" story from the infamous $250 cookie recipe from Neiman Marcus (or, in another version, Mrs. Fields) — the truth is, a decades-old tall tale stored alive through the eternal spirit of revenge.
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Email text contributed with a readers, November 1997:
FWD: Free Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe
This can be a true story. Please forward it to everybody that you could. You'll have to see clearly to think it.
My daughter and that i had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Coffee shop in Dallas made the decision to possess a small dessert. Because the two of us are such cookie enthusiasts, we made the decision to test the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie". It had been so competent which i requested when they will give me the recipe and also the waitress stated having a small frown "I'm afraid not." Well" I stated, "would you allow me to purchase the recipe?"
Having a cute smile, she stated YES". I requested just how much and she or he responded, "Only two fifty, it's a good deal!" I stated with approval, "just combine it with my tab". Four weeks later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus also it was $285.00. I looked again and appreciated I'd only spent $9.95 for 2 salads contributing to $20.00 for any scarf. When I looked at the end from the statement, it stated, "Cookie Recipe - $250.00". That's crazy.
I known as Neiman's Accounting Dept. and said excitedly the waitress stated it had been "two-fifty," which clearly does not necessarily mean "two hundred and $ 50" by POSSIBLE interpretation from the phrase. Neiman-Marcus declined to budge. They'd not refund my money, because based on them, "What the waitress said isn't our problem. You've already seen the recipe - we absolutely won't refund your hard earned money at this time." I described to her the criminal statutes which govern fraud in Texas. I threatened to touch on these to the Bbb and also the Condition's Attorney General for participating in fraud. I had been essentially told, "Do what you would like, we dont provide a damn, so we're not refunding your hard earned money." I anxiously waited a minute, considering the way i might get even,or perhaps attempt to have any of my money-back. I simply stated, "Okay, you folks experienced my $250.00, and today I'm likely to have $250.00 price of fun."
I informed her which i would ensure that each cookie lover within the U . s . States by having an e-mail account includes a $250.00 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus. free of charge..She responded, "I wish you wouldn't do that" I stated, "Well you ought to have considered that before you decide to ripped me off", and slammed lower the telephone on her behalf. So, here you go. Please, please, please give it to everybody you are able to consider. I compensated $250.00 dollars with this. I don't want Neiman-Marcus to find yourself getting another cent from this recipe.
(Recipe might be halved):
2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 teaspoon. sodium bicarbonate
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal and merge blender to some fine powder)
24 oz. choc chips
1 teaspoon. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 teaspoon. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your decision)
2 teaspoon. vanilla
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla mix along with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add choc chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and put 2 " apart on the cookie sheet..Bake for ten minutes at 375 levels. Makes 112 cookies. Have Some Fun.
This isn't a tale - this can be a true story. Ride free citizens. This isn't some stupid chain letter either. transfer. should you don't, you won't die or get dumped. you'll simply do the planet an injustice.
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Analysis: Most people who've been on the web any period of time are most likely inured for this "true story," generically referred to as "The $250 Cookie Recipe" and presently connected using the Neiman Marcus company, though the identical tale was the bane of cookie diva Mrs. Fields through the 1980s.
In situation you're one of the shrinking couple of who haven't figured it yet, it isn't a real true story. It's a vintage urban legend folklorists have tracked dating back to 1948, once the ridiculously costly recipe produced a red velvet fudge cake offered in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (selling price for that recipe at that time: $25).
The newer, adjusted-for-inflation version (email reproduced above) continues to help make the online models, its recognition showing couple of indications of waning despite repeated disproofs these past couple of decades. The storyline clearly touches a psychological chord. To explain the traditional Klingon proverb, "Revenge is really a dish best offered warm from the oven."
When it comes to recipe itself, I haven't attempted the cookies, but by most accounts it yields damn high quality ones (and lots of them). Nobody knows whose kitchen it originated from, but we all do realize it wasn't the Neiman Marcus company, whose restaurants didn't even sell chocolate nick cookies when this legend first started circulating.
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Neiman Marcus chefs did produce a chocolate nick cookie recipe afterwards, however, which the organization now distributes totally free on its website being an antidote, for a moment, for this defamatory urban legend. Bon appetit!
Sources and additional studying:
Cookie Rumor Crumbles
Tribune Media Services, 28 March 1986
