Re: "Cookie Recipe-$250.00".

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> "Jerry Avins" <jya@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>William Kimbler wrote:
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>>>"ok" <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already! , is a
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> very
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>>>>expensive store; i.e., they sell your typical $8.00 T-****rt for
$50.00.
>>>>Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
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>>>Last time it was Macy's, maybe next time it will be Emeril or Wolfgang
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> Puck
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>>Macy's? I've heard it many dozen times over the last 35 years, always
>>with Nieman-Marcus as the goat. When I was in Houston in 1968, the store
>>was handing out a free cookie (you could buy more) and a printed recipe.
>>Apparently, the story was old then.
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>>Jerry
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> Thats funny, the story involving Neiman-Marcus didn't start until the
90's
> and in fact the cookie recipe they have was developed because of the
hoax,
> there wasn't a Neiman-Marcus cookie before that! Maybe you were eating
> "brownies" back in the 60's and this accounts for your fuzzy flashback.

Interesting. Where did you learn that?

Jerry
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