SC - SCA, and cookies too

[The Davidsons]

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>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:23:49 -0400
>From: dhritter at duke-energy.com (David H Ritterskamp)
>Subject: SCA, and cookies too
>To: atlantia at adm.csc.ncsu.edu
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>Reply-To: dhritter at duke-energy.com (David H Ritterskamp)
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>Poster: dhritter at duke-energy.com (David H Ritterskamp)
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>On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, "David L. Booker" <dbooker at gte.net> wrote:
>>Okay, pass this on wherever.  I understand this originally came from a 
>>Scadian in Ansteorra. ;-) A
>>
>>--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
>>
>>A friend passed this on to me -- great story and great reason to keep
>>passing 
>>it on to your friends !!!
>>
>>Madam, or 'Queta, or Harriet
>>
>>==============================================
>>THIS IS TRUE
>>My daughter & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas
>>&
>>decided to have a small dessert.  Because both of us are such cookie
>>lovers,
>>we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie." (EDITORIAL COMMENT: 
>>Neiman's is 
>>a VERY EXPENSIVE department store in the States).  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."
>>     Well," I said, "would you let me buy the recipe?"  With a cute smile
>>she 
>>said, "Yes."  I asked how much, and she responded, "Only two fifty; it's
>>a 
>>great deal!".  I said with approval, "Just add it to my tab".  Thirty
>>days 
>>later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus, and it 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's outrageous!!  I called Neiman's
>>Accounting 
>>Dept. and told them the waitress said it was "two-fifty," which clearly
>>does 
>>not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by any POSSIBLE 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 her
>>the 
>>criminal statues which govern fraud in Texas; I threatened to refer them
>>to the 
>>Better Business Bureau and the State's Attorney General for engaging in
>>fraud.  
>>I was basically told, "Do what you want; we don't give a crap, and we're
>>not
>>refunding your money."  I waited, thinking of how I could get even, or
>>even try 
>>and get any of my money back.  I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250,
>>and 
>>now I'm going to have $250.00 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 $250.00 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus . . . for free.  She
>>replied, "I
>>wish you wouldn't do this."  I said, "Well, you should have thought of
>>that 
>>before you ripped me off," and slammed down the phone on her.  So here it
>>is!!!
>>Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. 
>>I
>>paid $250 for this . . . I don't want Neiman-Marcus to  EVER get another
>>penny 
>>off of this recipe . . . .
>>
>>(Recipe may be halved)
>>2 cups butter
>>4 cups flour
>>2 tsp. soda
>>2 cups sugar
>>5 cups blended oatmeal (Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine 
>>powder)
>>24 oz. chocolate chips
>>2 cups brown sugar
>>1 tsp. salt
>>1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
>>4 eggs
>>2 tsp. baking powder
>>2 tsp. vanilla
>>3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
>>
>>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 12 cookies.  Have
>>fun!!!
>>
>>This is not a joke . . . this is a true story.  Ride free citizens!
>>
>>Katherine Watt             kcwatt at ucdavis.edu
>>
>>--------- End forwarded message ----------
>>
>
>Cookie lovers of the world, UNITE!!
>
>Regards,
>
>Ld. Jonathan Blackbow
>Clan O'Shannon
>[munch munch munch slurp *grin*][repeat as necessary]
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