INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Cream the butter and both sugars.  Add eggs and vanila:  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.  The
following is a TRUE STORY:  My daughter and 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".  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 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  that 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-Marus 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 statutes 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 a  moment, thinking of how I could get even, or even try to 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 dollars
for this...  I don't  want Neiman-Marcus to ever get another penny off
of this recipe...  Formatted and converted by <kingman> Posted to
MM-Recipes Digest V3  #327  From: Wes King <kingman@orl.mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:13:34 -0500

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients)
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Calories: 107
Calories From Fat: 46
Total Fat: 5.4g
Cholesterol: 15.4mg
Sodium: 57.1mg
Potassium: 14.1mg
Carbohydrates: 14.8g
Fiber: <1g
Sugar: 7.5g
Protein: <1g